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"But this means that common use is to have two pages or tasks side by side." Is this common? I've never known another person who does this outside a dual scree
by mkr-hn 15y ago
"But this means that common use is to have two pages or tasks side by side."
Is this common? I've never known another person who does this outside a dual screen setup.
- bugsy 15y agoOK, let me ask some questions to calibrate your set up and see where you're coming from. 1. What is the width in inches of your display and how many pixels. 2. How many inches from your eyes to the screen in a normal working position? 3. Is your browser set to full screen width right now? 4. How many words per line are there across the screen in this page of hacker news on your set up?
- mkr-hn 15y agoHow does this answer the question? You said it was common. I asked if it was really that common. What is your source? It's an important question to ask if you're designing something because it determines how much work needs to be done. It's why I've considered adding j/k support to my blog. It wouldn't be worth the effort for most things other than a tech blog.
- Vivtek 15y agoI normally don't browse side-by-side, but it's fantastic for translation from scanned originals. (My two bits.) Way easier nowadays.
- pangram 15y agoReading is more comfortable when the text is not sized to the entire screen (cite below, with more references). Also, witness the number of window managers that offer ways to facilitate half-window views (i.e., XMonad, Cinch or SizeUp, Windows 7 window snapping, even Ctrl-X 3 in Emacs, so on and so forth). http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng...
- mkr-hn 15y agoWhere is text sized across the entire screen? There is text across the screen in the linked blog, but it's broken into distinct blocks.