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Banner blindness has ruined a lot of potential multi-column experiences from some basic eye tracking studies that I've done on multi-column layouts in the past.
by awesomerobot 10y ago
Banner blindness has ruined a lot of potential multi-column experiences from some basic eye tracking studies that I've done on multi-column layouts in the past.
Also... you can make the same comment about hacker news, yet here we are.
- strictnein 10y agoHN is one column, but it's 85% of the page. G+ content is a fixed 530px.
- klodolph 10y agoHN only works because the text here is short. Try reading longer posts in a maximized window. Readability studies consistently tell us that optimum column width, for readibility, is something like 50-75 characters wide (including spaces). You can get by with more width for short text like HN comments.