Widescreen monitors, and people still using full screen with a widescreen monitors, are the issue there. Moving from Windows to OS X all those years back was wh

Widescreen monitors, and people still using full screen with a widescreen monitors, are the issue there. Moving from Windows to OS X all those years back was what got me to move from having my applications in "windows" instead of "walls". OS X didn't really have a way to maximize stuff, just "zoom" to auto-size the window. Since I transitioned to my first widescreen monitor at the same time, this worked out really well. For a significant number of people, they don't get any benefit from a widescreen display, because all that extra space is just empty screen due to max-width being set on the text. Of course, if the developer didn't do that, the text would be hard to read. They're saving users from themselves in many cases. I have a site where I don't use any CSS and have a note to tell people to make their browser more narrow if they need the text to wrap so it's easier to read. Doing that, the site works on everything, no media queries required.