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PET RANT: horrible use of monitor areas by Gdocs. Look at the image from the article. Ughh. Maybe 3rd of the monitor is actually used to display text https://

• manigandham 6y ago
  That's their history extension, not google docs. You can zoom in on documents in Google Docs (or any website in your browser) as much as you want. Also fixed width for text improves readability.
  • 867-5309 6y ago
    >any website CSS permitting
    • manigandham 6y ago
      Browser zoom is independent of CSS.
      • 867-5309 6y ago
        if that were true then all websites would scale uniformly
        • manigandham 6y ago
          Uniformity is an entirely different issue. All browsers can zoom in, regardless of the CSS, but how they implement it is different. Safari on mobile devices uses a visual zoom which is like scaling up an image, while desktop browsers usually scale up CSS units and reflow the layout with the bigger dimensions.
          • 867-5309 6y ago
            or users can use a magnifying glass, if they own one it is not true that all browsers can zoom in. there are some cases, e.g. mobile platform with stock browser, where CSS dictates no zoom and the browser honours this and therefore cannot zoom that might be due to browser implementation but ultimately CSS dictates it I have no interest in mobile Safari but its non-vector based zoom sounds useless, and desktop zooming is unreliable
• Craighead 6y ago
  View>fit
• titanomachy 6y ago
  I don't know that I agree. If you magnified the page to fill the screen you would see too few lines at a time. If you reflowed the text to fill the screen it would violate common typographical/usability wisdom [0] and no longer resemble the finished product. Also, just realized that screencap isn't even Google Docs. [0] https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html