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Hah! Call it a design experiment, and either way it's good to gather a data point that someone hates it. The multi-column layout will only trigger at large scr
by brandur 13y ago
Hah! Call it a design experiment, and either way it's good to gather a data point that someone hates it.
The multi-column layout will only trigger at large screen sizes. The idea here was to fill some of that extraneous white space you get when browsing full screen on big monitors. I may revert it.
- steamer25 13y agoInteresting. Before reverting, maybe you could try detecting page height and then flow from left column to right column with one page height then draw a horizontal rule under than and repeat left to right again with the next page-height's worth of text. I.e., instead of 1 | 4 2 | 5 3 | 6 try 1 | 2 ----- 3 | 4 ----- 5 | 6 ...kinda like reading both sides of a book spine.
- brandur 13y agoNice idea! I naturally worry a bit that the reader's eye will have a hard time tracking which segment it should be looking at next (say they accidentally jump from 1 --> 3 for example). But like you said, if you used the horizontal rule between say 1/2 and 3/4, and just had whitespace between 1/2, it might be distinctive enough for a fluid reading. Thanks for the tip. I'll draw up a prototype.
- angersock 13y agoOh, I think it's a cool idea--the issue is that for whatever reason I still end up having to scroll. As mentioned elsewhere, if you can detect the right number of columns/text, that'd be ideal.
- im3w1l 13y agoI liked it.