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I don't know about the "widespread consensus", but forcing people to manually resizing their browser window to fit whatever they currently are reading is bad de
by SNvD7vEJ 10y ago
I don't know about the "widespread consensus", but forcing people to manually resizing their browser window to fit whatever they currently are reading is bad design in my book.
Most good sites, I think, (strangely not Hacker News though) have a width limiting, centered layout which makes it easy to read and browse.
- WorldMaker 10y agoI'll be that odd person to point out that width limiting in a world of widescreens is a strange use of space. I'd personally like to see more love put into CSS3 multi-column support and gentle horizontal scrolling (a standard spec ready equivalent to -ms-scroll-translation, perhaps). I get the feeling I'm in a not very vocal minority of people that currently thinks horizontal scrolling could be a useful answer for an easier to read web on widescreen displays. I find it strange how many sites seem to be more horizontal gutters than content space these days due their fixed width containers recreating a square virtual monitor inside my widescreen monitor. Admittedly it is good for ad space, I guess, because those gutters can be and often are filled with plenty of ads.