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> - Browsers make text expand to fill the window with an 8px margin. On a 4K monitor with a maximised window that means the margin is 0.21% of the available spa

> - Browsers make text expand to fill the window with an 8px margin. On a 4K monitor with a maximised window that means the margin is 0.21% of the available space and paragraphs are usually just one long line of text. Again, it's not very readable. Disclaimer: I'm an old coot and my hardware is lagging behind, still on a single 22" display on my desktop, etc, etc, so I am most likely missing something, AND your overall argument here does appear sound, but I do found myself wondering: why, if you have a 4k display and massive amounts of screen realestate, do you have a maximized browser window? I mean, with my crappy hardware I can understand why I am doing it, but I assume that I am the odd one/edge-case here, not you.

onion2k 5y ago
why, if you have a 4k display and massive amounts of screen realestate, do you have a maximized browser window? It's the job of every web dev to write code that works everywhere. If the user has chosen to run their browser maximised on a 4K monitor that's their choice. When you write code, saying "the user is using it wrong" is never going to be an acceptable excuse for shipping something that doesn't work well for everyone in my opinion.
- dylan604 5y ago
  >saying "the user is using it wrong" is never going to be an acceptable excuse unless you're Steve Jobs
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Where did you get that impression? Web developers aim to write code that works for most, most of the time. If you happen to be using netscape navigator or using an 8k monitor at maximum scale you won't be in a group that qa can cover. As more people get 4K more websites will support it.
9dev 5y ago
Because 99% of the websites I browse are optimised for wide screens and/or contain lots of information that legitimately fill my 4K screen. I'm not going to resize my entire browser window for that one special snowflake that doesn't use CSS on their blog, I'm simply navigating away.

onion2k 5y ago

why, if you have a 4k display and massive amounts of screen realestate, do you have a maximized browser window? It's the job of every web dev to write code that works everywhere. If the user has chosen to run their browser maximised on a 4K monitor that's their choice. When you write code, saying "the user is using it wrong" is never going to be an acceptable excuse for shipping something that doesn't work well for everyone in my opinion.

dylan604 5y ago
>saying "the user is using it wrong" is never going to be an acceptable excuse unless you're Steve Jobs
ipaddr 5y ago
Where did you get that impression? Web developers aim to write code that works for most, most of the time. If you happen to be using netscape navigator or using an 8k monitor at maximum scale you won't be in a group that qa can cover. As more people get 4K more websites will support it.

9dev 5y ago

Because 99% of the websites I browse are optimised for wide screens and/or contain lots of information that legitimately fill my 4K screen. I'm not going to resize my entire browser window for that one special snowflake that doesn't use CSS on their blog, I'm simply navigating away.