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I would be inclined to agree with you, except for the fact that HTML-only text spans the entire screen with no margins. It's really hard to read two sentences o
by bjackman 13y ago
I would be inclined to agree with you, except for the fact that HTML-only text spans the entire screen with no margins. It's really hard to read two sentences on one line.
- kijin 13y agoSpanning the entire screen with no margins (or a mimimal default like 10px) is exactly what I want text to do on the tiny screen of my phone. Guess what, Wikipedia's mobile design does exactly that. The full-width text does get a bit annoying when you're trying to read Wikipedia on a 30" screen, but in that case, nothing's preventing you from snapping the browser window to the left or right half of the screen and/or increasing the zoom level to make for more comfortable reading.
- madeofpalk 13y agoSo what if there was a way that we could describle a simple set of rules that governed how paragraphs of text appeared in web pages? Perhaps we could make paragraphs 100% wide, up to a max width of 600px (and then centered in the screen)?
- kijin 13y ago#content { width: 100%; max-width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; } But this is not going to work on Wikipedia. As the article mentions, Wikipedia is designed for quick scanning, not leisurely reading. When I'm quickly scanning the screen, I want as much of the screen as possible to be filled with text. I don't want over 2/3 of my 1920px screen to go to waste.
- zeckalpha 13y agohttp://kevinburke.bitbucket.org/markdowncss/ http://kevinburke.bitbucket.org/markdowncss/