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

by slezyr 8y ago

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

by 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?

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