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That page uses very simple HTML. Just paragraphs of text divided into sections with headings. Some code examples laid out side-by-side with a table. Tiny styles

That page uses very simple HTML. Just paragraphs of text divided into sections with headings. Some code examples laid out side-by-side with a table. Tiny stylesheet. No JS. Loads quickly, easy to read. Warms the cockles of my heart.

airstrike 8y ago
Well, it was written in 2000. Call me nostalgic, but there's something to be said about how simple the internet was back then.
slezyr 8y ago
> easy to read. Not on 27" with browser in full screen.
- airstrike 8y ago
  You probably shouldn't have your browser in full screen mode on a 27" screen
  - metalliqaz 8y ago
    why?
    - bjoli 8y ago
      Because unless you are using huge fonts there is probably a better use case for all they screen space. I have a 24" (16:9) screen turned 90°, which works wonders for full screen web pages.
    - airstrike 8y ago
      Because it's not ergonomic. You don't need the browser to take up your entire screen, you just need it big enough so you can fit the content comfortably. Admittedly we would all lose this habit quicker if resizing windows wasn't such a finicky process in most OSs
      - retSava 8y ago
        I'm using this application: https://github.com/aarmea/WindowGroomer https://github.com/aarmea/WindowGroomer sadly abandoned it seems, and not well-known, but is well-working in both win7 and win10. With a keyboard shortcut it's easy to resize any window and at the same time position them on the screen. Also makes it easy to "save" windows that have slightly bad size or position so it's hard to position the mouse pointer in the resize corner. On my wish list is that after bringing up the application, instead of using the mouse to select grid, I should be able to use eg arrow keys and shift to select them.
    - bunderbunder 8y ago
      It really shouldn't be the web designer's job to pick a width that the content will display as and impose that unilaterally on everyone. That way it's easy for everyone to make their own choices. If you want 27" wide lines of text, go ahead and full-screen that browser and have at it. If you want the text you're reading to take up less horizontal real estate than that, then you can easily make the browser itself as wide or narrow as you like.
    - Jtsummers 8y ago
      This is an "it depends" thing. If you're viewing documents, they're typically more vertically than horizontally oriented. That is, the parts you need to see more of are above/below of the viewable portion, not left/right of the viewable portion. So a browser being used for reading is often more useful when it takes up maybe half the screen on a high-res/large monitor. If you're accessing webapps, that have more objects arranged horizontally, then going fullscreen may be more useful (think Trello boards and other things).
  - ssalazar 8y ago
    Aka "you're using it wrong."
- entropicdrifter 8y ago
  CTRL and + to zoom in on Windows/Linux CMD and + to zoom in on Mac or CTRL/CMD and scroll wheel to zoom in/out depending on direction scrolled. Or are you using an ancient browser without zoom?
  - deleted 8y ago
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Intermernet 8y ago
This page is written by the creator of PuTTY. They could probably release this as a straight TXT file and still get the readership they deserve. Simon Tatham know's what he's doing!
sandov 8y ago
The only issue of these websites is the width: using the full width of the screen is just too much for reading. If you add {max-width: 60em; margin: auto;} to the body tag it looks much better.
- zeveb 8y ago
  Back in the day, we had multiple windows on the screen at one time, so this wasn't a problem. I think it was Windows which defaulted to full-screen, and led to the plague of sites assuming that the browser would be full-width on a landscape screen, but I could be wrong. Although I love using a tiling window manager now, I kinda miss my old System 8 Macintosh setup, with Netscape open in one window & Think C (or was it CodeWarrior?) open in another.
  - bunderbunder 8y ago
    On a Mac, Spectacle gets you pretty much there. I haven't found something similar for Windows, but I'm sure there is one.
    - npstr 8y ago
      I'm a very happy user of Amethyst, a tiling WM https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst Makes OSX actually usable.
- loeg 8y ago
  Not too wide for my browser windows, which are a bit under 50% of screen width.
  - davidgrenier 8y ago
    Likewise I would say not enough people put their monitors in portrait. It's amazing for coding.
    - loeg 8y ago

airstrike 8y ago

Well, it was written in 2000. Call me nostalgic, but there's something to be said about how simple the internet was back then.

slezyr 8y ago

> easy to read. Not on 27" with browser in full screen.

airstrike 8y ago
You probably shouldn't have your browser in full screen mode on a 27" screen
- metalliqaz 8y ago
  why?
  - bjoli 8y ago
    Because unless you are using huge fonts there is probably a better use case for all they screen space. I have a 24" (16:9) screen turned 90°, which works wonders for full screen web pages.
  - airstrike 8y ago
    Because it's not ergonomic. You don't need the browser to take up your entire screen, you just need it big enough so you can fit the content comfortably. Admittedly we would all lose this habit quicker if resizing windows wasn't such a finicky process in most OSs
    - retSava 8y ago
      I'm using this application: https://github.com/aarmea/WindowGroomer https://github.com/aarmea/WindowGroomer sadly abandoned it seems, and not well-known, but is well-working in both win7 and win10. With a keyboard shortcut it's easy to resize any window and at the same time position them on the screen. Also makes it easy to "save" windows that have slightly bad size or position so it's hard to position the mouse pointer in the resize corner. On my wish list is that after bringing up the application, instead of using the mouse to select grid, I should be able to use eg arrow keys and shift to select them.
  - bunderbunder 8y ago
    It really shouldn't be the web designer's job to pick a width that the content will display as and impose that unilaterally on everyone. That way it's easy for everyone to make their own choices. If you want 27" wide lines of text, go ahead and full-screen that browser and have at it. If you want the text you're reading to take up less horizontal real estate than that, then you can easily make the browser itself as wide or narrow as you like.
  - Jtsummers 8y ago
    This is an "it depends" thing. If you're viewing documents, they're typically more vertically than horizontally oriented. That is, the parts you need to see more of are above/below of the viewable portion, not left/right of the viewable portion. So a browser being used for reading is often more useful when it takes up maybe half the screen on a high-res/large monitor. If you're accessing webapps, that have more objects arranged horizontally, then going fullscreen may be more useful (think Trello boards and other things).
- ssalazar 8y ago
  Aka "you're using it wrong."
entropicdrifter 8y ago
CTRL and + to zoom in on Windows/Linux CMD and + to zoom in on Mac or CTRL/CMD and scroll wheel to zoom in/out depending on direction scrolled. Or are you using an ancient browser without zoom?
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]

Intermernet 8y ago

This page is written by the creator of PuTTY. They could probably release this as a straight TXT file and still get the readership they deserve. Simon Tatham know's what he's doing!

sandov 8y ago

The only issue of these websites is the width: using the full width of the screen is just too much for reading. If you add {max-width: 60em; margin: auto;} to the body tag it looks much better.

zeveb 8y ago
Back in the day, we had multiple windows on the screen at one time, so this wasn't a problem. I think it was Windows which defaulted to full-screen, and led to the plague of sites assuming that the browser would be full-width on a landscape screen, but I could be wrong. Although I love using a tiling window manager now, I kinda miss my old System 8 Macintosh setup, with Netscape open in one window & Think C (or was it CodeWarrior?) open in another.
- bunderbunder 8y ago
  On a Mac, Spectacle gets you pretty much there. I haven't found something similar for Windows, but I'm sure there is one.
  - npstr 8y ago
    I'm a very happy user of Amethyst, a tiling WM https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst Makes OSX actually usable.
loeg 8y ago
Not too wide for my browser windows, which are a bit under 50% of screen width.
- davidgrenier 8y ago
  Likewise I would say not enough people put their monitors in portrait. It's amazing for coding.
  - loeg 8y ago