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My display is only 1900 wide, and it annoys me to scroll 80-character columns. Especially when they blow up to 30+ points, and I need to resize the browser wind
by mirimir 8y ago
My display is only 1900 wide, and it annoys me to scroll 80-character columns. Especially when they blow up to 30+ points, and I need to resize the browser window.
If WP for DOS could format multi-column pages, I can't imagine that it's that hard. Scrolling sideways is pretty intuitive. And it's become common for image slideshows. Or one could replace continuous scrolling with jumping to the next page.
- cmroanirgo 8y agoSide scrolling is also common for online epub readers, and with a visual 'assist' of looking like a book, or large left-right arrows it's rather intuitive. I think my next blog redesign might incorporate a 'book-ish' horizontal scroll, rather than the infinite vertical scroll... > If WP for DOS could format multi-column pages, I can't imagine that it's that hard Funnily enough browsers have this support already (using column-width, or a prefix version of it), so for the web it's basically free, and trivial to add to a site: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/c/column-width/ https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/c/column-width/