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I had to resize my browser window in order to read this article in my PC. I don't get this kind of "geeky" designs, is there a technical reason why they don't e

by elboru 11y ago

I had to resize my browser window in order to read this article in my PC. I don't get this kind of "geeky" designs, is there a technical reason why they don't even add basic CSS? I'm not talking about making the articles look "good", but making them readable.

zanny 11y ago
It is an incredibly modern advent this idea that you can never actually use the entire screen to render text for anyone except for mobile viewers. If you cannot read across your screen, you are probably sitting too close to it. I'd rather have wider text that I have to turn my eyes slightly to see all of then narrower text that requires active scrolling. And I don't know of a single OS that you cannot snap your browser window to half the width of your monitor on the edge, which would make this as presentable as anyone in this comment section wants without the site maintainer having to assume everyone wants narrow text.
- m52go 11y ago
  I'm not sure I agree. There's a reason newspapers, magazines, and other traditional media use narrow columns as well...it's much easier to read.
  - zanny 11y ago
    Traditional news presents information with more vertical space in the first place. The balance is between effort exerted to scroll text that is horizontally compressed vs effort moving your eye across the screen. If you were to put your content on the screen in such a way that you were not padding with whitespace, but instead were doing a multi-column layout like a newspaper, that would be the best of all worlds I imagine, but it would look extremely disjointed to viewers and you would have to lock the vertical scrolling. But websites are not optimizing space for readability with columns - they are just padding the text body, creating more hand work in exchange for less eye work without considering their efforts are making people exert more total work when they have to scroll more, whereas traditional media is not just padding whitespace, it is introducing vertical columns of text adjacent one another.
- arielb1 11y ago
  200-character-long-lines don't fit in an eye's useful field of view. The problem is that websites have multiple columns of varying fixed width, so that a narrow window will give some websites a tiny actual line-width.
babbleshack 11y ago
I quite like this style for technical blogs/pages.... I don't have my browser full screen allot of the time though. btw here is the style sheet for that page :P https://www.devever.net/~hl/style.css https://www.devever.net/~hl/style.css

by elboru 11y ago

zanny 11y ago

It is an incredibly modern advent this idea that you can never actually use the entire screen to render text for anyone except for mobile viewers. If you cannot read across your screen, you are probably sitting too close to it. I'd rather have wider text that I have to turn my eyes slightly to see all of then narrower text that requires active scrolling. And I don't know of a single OS that you cannot snap your browser window to half the width of your monitor on the edge, which would make this as presentable as anyone in this comment section wants without the site maintainer having to assume everyone wants narrow text.

m52go 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree. There's a reason newspapers, magazines, and other traditional media use narrow columns as well...it's much easier to read.
- zanny 11y ago
  Traditional news presents information with more vertical space in the first place. The balance is between effort exerted to scroll text that is horizontally compressed vs effort moving your eye across the screen. If you were to put your content on the screen in such a way that you were not padding with whitespace, but instead were doing a multi-column layout like a newspaper, that would be the best of all worlds I imagine, but it would look extremely disjointed to viewers and you would have to lock the vertical scrolling. But websites are not optimizing space for readability with columns - they are just padding the text body, creating more hand work in exchange for less eye work without considering their efforts are making people exert more total work when they have to scroll more, whereas traditional media is not just padding whitespace, it is introducing vertical columns of text adjacent one another.
arielb1 11y ago
200-character-long-lines don't fit in an eye's useful field of view. The problem is that websites have multiple columns of varying fixed width, so that a narrow window will give some websites a tiny actual line-width.

babbleshack 11y ago

I quite like this style for technical blogs/pages.... I don't have my browser full screen allot of the time though. btw here is the style sheet for that page :P https://www.devever.net/~hl/style.css https://www.devever.net/~hl/style.css