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To not have to resize my window for each website I visit?
by addisonl 3y ago
To not have to resize my window for each website I visit?
- Pannoniae 3y agoThe alternative is the "accessible" mush which is common nowadays - no matter how big your screen is, the content is compressed together into a small strip in the middle of the screen, almost like a phone. No thanks, I'll take fullwidth content anytime over that....
- hot_gril 3y agoThere's an ok in-between where wide windows get margins and narrow ones use the full width. But yes a lot of sites have the stupidly huge margins.
- addisonl 3y agoThe best alternative is a site that is responsive that takes advantage of wider screens but not lazy fullwidth.
- Pannoniae 3y agoWhy is full width lazy? It uses all your screenspace;)
- addisonl 3y agoBecause it forces your users to make your site readable which is lazily passing off the responsibility.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoAnd what if users want light or dark theme too. How do you guess it?
- aeno 3y agoYou don't have to guess. You can just use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoHow it plays with the idea of not passing responsibility to the user? User can request window width too.
- ThunderSizzle 3y agoMaking text wider is lazy. At some point, you'll need to break it into columns so that the text is readable. Perhaps on super wide screens, three or four columns (akin to a two column book that's wide open or a newspaper) may even be more preferable. Otherwise, the other option is to scale up thr text size, but that takes up precious vertical space on wide screens, and doesn't increase information density. Obviously, text columns may only make sense it certain scenarios - a minimum amount of text might be required to justify a second column as opposed to just limiting the width of the first column.
- bjornasm 3y agoNo its not, there are lots of more alternatives.
- hot_gril 3y agoWhy do you have to resize it?
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoI browse all sites in a window of my preferred width, works fine.