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As the owner of a 27" 1440p monitor, I hate sites that do this. It's infuriating to run across sites that only take up 25% (well, 27% in this suggestion) of my
by lsaferite 13y ago
As the owner of a 27" 1440p monitor, I hate sites that do this. It's infuriating to run across sites that only take up 25% (well, 27% in this suggestion) of my screen width. Even worse are the sites that manage to keep the width in pixels the same even when I zoom.
- droidist2 13y agoYou want to read lines of text that are 27" long?
- danjayh 13y agoYes.
- Hellenion 13y ago-x-column-width: 700px;
- oneeyedpigeon 13y agoUnless you're reading a dense novel, that shouldn't really be much of a problem. Line length is only an issue when returning to the beginning of the next line, and only very long paragraphs will be problematic in this case. Text online usually varies a lot more than a novel - lists, quotes, images, etc. - and the page in question is no exception: it's just a list of captioned images for the most part. Hacker News, even with its tiny font, is still perfectly readable at a width of 1680 because few comments have paragraphs that are more than 2 or 3 lines long.
- lsaferite 13y agoWell, a 27" monitor isn't actually 27" wide, but I get your point. No, full width lines get difficult to read, but locking me into some tiny width of text on my monitor is quite annoying and, as a default behaviour, obnoxious. Better would be a % width, perhaps with a font size that follows. And the absolute worst is a site that uses CSS that prevents my page zoom from functioning properly.