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Sorry that this isn't related to the article text at all, but I have been noticing this a lot recently. It's a web design thing. It's about margin-left. Have o

by natesm 15y ago

Sorry that this isn't related to the article text at all, but I have been noticing this a lot recently. It's a web design thing. It's about margin-left. Have one that isn't zero. Please. I don't want to resize my browser (currently 925px, which is reasonable) to make your content readable. This is what I'm talking about: http://i.imgur.com/Dlcgg.png http://i.imgur.com/Dlcgg.png

Wilduck 15y ago
This is especially true when thinking about those reading from a smartphone... Adds a hint of irony to the piece.
Anti-Ratfish 15y ago
It reads well in instapaper! Laughed when I realized why I didn't understand tour comment.
rjd 15y ago
You might want to do yourself a favor and move your browser width out a bit more. 940 is a commonly used width content for many grid based frameworks. That 940 doesn't include an internal margin, instead it is handle by an external 10px margin taking the whole width upto 960px. Check out 960.gs for their framework, but they aren't alone in those figures, because of the way it subdivides.
- tesseract 15y ago
  Sorry, but I want web designers to do me a favor and make sites that, even if they don't look perfect, at least don't horribly break in my ~860px wide browser window. Which, I feel compelled to point out, is a full 100px wider than an iPad in portrait. Actually I would rather use a browser width of 600-700px, as that would fill around half the width of my 13" laptop screen, and be more typographically optimal in terms of not requiring as much horizontal eye scanning, and not stretching out paragraphs into 2 or 3 line horizontal stripes. But there are too many websites out there that assume I have a giant monitor and a browser window that's maximized to fill it.
  - rjd 15y ago
    Well for users with fringe case scenarios such as yourself most modern browsers have client side style sheets. As for the iPad... it scales websites to fit its format, so I'm not sure what the issue if there.
jdthomas 15y ago
Uggg, completely agree. Once, long long ago, servers on the world wide web simply sent me data (text, links, and maybe images) and I could format how I pleased client side. I think we have gotten too far away from that original model. (These days I have to run your client side code to download to insert text in the DOM. On top of some ugly background. With margins unusable on my devices. If you want to serve me some text, just send the damn text). Yes, it is nice that a web designer can suggest to my client how that text might best be rendered, but when it comes down to it I actually know how I want to read a document; hint: it probably doesn't match your layout. [ / end rant ] * Yes, I understand _actual_ applications exist on the web now; rant applies only to "articles"

by natesm 15y ago

Wilduck 15y ago

This is especially true when thinking about those reading from a smartphone... Adds a hint of irony to the piece.

Anti-Ratfish 15y ago

It reads well in instapaper! Laughed when I realized why I didn't understand tour comment.

rjd 15y ago

You might want to do yourself a favor and move your browser width out a bit more. 940 is a commonly used width content for many grid based frameworks. That 940 doesn't include an internal margin, instead it is handle by an external 10px margin taking the whole width upto 960px. Check out 960.gs for their framework, but they aren't alone in those figures, because of the way it subdivides.

tesseract 15y ago
Sorry, but I want web designers to do me a favor and make sites that, even if they don't look perfect, at least don't horribly break in my ~860px wide browser window. Which, I feel compelled to point out, is a full 100px wider than an iPad in portrait. Actually I would rather use a browser width of 600-700px, as that would fill around half the width of my 13" laptop screen, and be more typographically optimal in terms of not requiring as much horizontal eye scanning, and not stretching out paragraphs into 2 or 3 line horizontal stripes. But there are too many websites out there that assume I have a giant monitor and a browser window that's maximized to fill it.
- rjd 15y ago
  Well for users with fringe case scenarios such as yourself most modern browsers have client side style sheets. As for the iPad... it scales websites to fit its format, so I'm not sure what the issue if there.

jdthomas 15y ago

Uggg, completely agree. Once, long long ago, servers on the world wide web simply sent me data (text, links, and maybe images) and I could format how I pleased client side. I think we have gotten too far away from that original model. (These days I have to run your client side code to download to insert text in the DOM. On top of some ugly background. With margins unusable on my devices. If you want to serve me some text, just send the damn text). Yes, it is nice that a web designer can suggest to my client how that text might best be rendered, but when it comes down to it I actually know how I want to read a document; hint: it probably doesn't match your layout. [ / end rant ] * Yes, I understand _actual_ applications exist on the web now; rant applies only to "articles"