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It's just a responsive design to keep the body text from getting too wide. Most sites do this one way or another, because very wide columns of text are harder t
by fenomas 10y ago
It's just a responsive design to keep the body text from getting too wide. Most sites do this one way or another, because very wide columns of text are harder to read.
I mean, if you read the same article on medium.com then much of your screen still wouldn't be doing anything - on medium the unused space would be blank margins; here it's a hero image.
- izacus 10y agoExcept that Medium will actually have wider text lines and the text won't be squezzed against the right border of the browser window.
- stordoff 10y agoPreventing the text getting too wide is one thing, but this seems excessive. The image to the side is distracting, and the actual text of the article is only taking about 35% of the screen width.
- fenomas 10y ago> the article is only taking about 35% of the screen width The point is absolute size, not relative. I'm no expert but I seem to recall usability types talking about ideal columns of text being 60-90 characters or so. If your browser is three times wider than that, it's reasonable for sites to show text that takes only a third of the screen. Why wouldn't they?