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I don't understand either. These days we have many websites with giant empty spaces on the left and/or right, all in the name of making the text lines short en

I don't understand either. These days we have many websites with giant empty spaces on the left and/or right, all in the name of making the text lines short enough (much shorter than I like them, but that's another rant). Making the browser window smaller often makes the text even smaller, instead of the useless empty spaces. Make some room for my other windows, please! We're not in the 90's anymore where monitors were only large enough for one window. There's this trend of very wide and ultra wide monitors. I sincerely hope people don't use their browsers full-screen on 3440x1440 monitors. Unless those empty spaces are supposed to be filled with ads that my ad blocker blocks for me. But that too is another rant.

ryandrake 6y ago
> These days we have many websites with giant empty spaces on the left and/or right, all in the name of making the text lines short enough (much shorter than I like them, but that's another rant). The other rant is here: [1]. Curious why do you hope people don't use their browsers full-screen? How does someone else's browsing preference affect you? Am I a lesser person if I want to use my browser full-screen on a 5120x2880 retina display? It seems more and more every year, the user's preference gets sidelined in favor of the web site designer's preference. I never thought it would get to this, but as web sites get more and more opinionated about enforcing their particular stylistic choices, I'm more often than not feeling the need to disable CSS or go into Reader mode. I wish browser developers would provide better tools to override questionable site designs, rather than taking them away. At least I can still change the font size with the browsers (shhhh--don't give them any ideas). 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690133
- remram 6y ago
  I'm not trying to tell you what to do. But if YOU make your browser wider than YOU can comfortably read, why do you expect ME the developer to do something with CSS to deal with it? That is the way your preferences affect me.
  - ryandrake 6y ago
    If I choose to fullscreen my browser window, I'm not expecting the developer to do anything about it. In fact, I'm hoping he will not choose to go out of his way to try to do something about it (e.g. deliberately adding whitespace). Honoring the user's preference often means less code/CSS.
    - remram 6y ago
      Oh I see. Then we are agreeing :)

ryandrake 6y ago

> These days we have many websites with giant empty spaces on the left and/or right, all in the name of making the text lines short enough (much shorter than I like them, but that's another rant). The other rant is here: [1]. Curious why do you hope people don't use their browsers full-screen? How does someone else's browsing preference affect you? Am I a lesser person if I want to use my browser full-screen on a 5120x2880 retina display? It seems more and more every year, the user's preference gets sidelined in favor of the web site designer's preference. I never thought it would get to this, but as web sites get more and more opinionated about enforcing their particular stylistic choices, I'm more often than not feeling the need to disable CSS or go into Reader mode. I wish browser developers would provide better tools to override questionable site designs, rather than taking them away. At least I can still change the font size with the browsers (shhhh--don't give them any ideas). 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690133

remram 6y ago
I'm not trying to tell you what to do. But if YOU make your browser wider than YOU can comfortably read, why do you expect ME the developer to do something with CSS to deal with it? That is the way your preferences affect me.
- ryandrake 6y ago
  If I choose to fullscreen my browser window, I'm not expecting the developer to do anything about it. In fact, I'm hoping he will not choose to go out of his way to try to do something about it (e.g. deliberately adding whitespace). Honoring the user's preference often means less code/CSS.
  - remram 6y ago
    Oh I see. Then we are agreeing :)