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What a widescreen monitor doesn't fix is having to move your head to read those 120 characters. With only 80 characters you only have to move your eyes.
by msdos 10y ago
What a widescreen monitor doesn't fix is having to move your head to read those 120 characters. With only 80 characters you only have to move your eyes.
- baccheion 10y agoI usually don't have to move my head to read 120 character lines.
- Someone 10y agoFor reference: on an iPad, I get 61 characters on a line in the HN input field, and it is about half the screen width in landscape mode. So, an iPad can do about 120 fixed-width characters on a line. I don't think I move my head when reading iPad text in landscape mode. I expect that people with somewhat normal vision will say the same.