3 ms·
> max-width on the content would do wonders for readability. Or you can resize your window?
by sampo 11y ago
> max-width on the content would do wonders for readability.
Or you can resize your window?
- mahouse 11y agoOr you can resize the screen of your phone with your fingers?
- tedunangst 11y agoAnd constantly pan left and right? Pass.
- vollmond 11y agoI think he was being facetious (pointing out that "resize your browser window" isn't really an option on most mobile devices).
- alkonaut 11y agoFeels a bit silly to resize a 20-tab browser window because one site failed to have proper content width. I'm very happy with having a 1920px maximized browser window. I don't like having non-maximized windows (in windows), it's just clumsy without a good layout system. You can have windows snapped at half width but I also want content centered on the screen. So no: failing to set max width on a web page is not a good way to just present a clean page of information rather than an experience. It's just a bad webpage.
- sampo 11y agoYou are spending 100s of seconds reading a webpage, so spending 1 second to resize the text width to your liking is a very small overhead.
- alkonaut 11y agoFor a longform page it may be worth doing for readability, but the whole idea of fiddling with the borders of my browser window (which is shared between all the tabs) back and forth as I switch tabs is silly.
- s73v3r 11y agoThat's a terrible idea, because most of the other tabs I have open in my browser fit just fine with the size I have the window at.