> These days we have many websites with giant empty spaces on the left and/or right, all in the name of making the text lines short enough (much shorter than I like them, but that's another rant).
The other rant is here: [1].
Curious why do you hope people don't use their browsers full-screen? How does someone else's browsing preference affect you? Am I a lesser person if I want to use my browser full-screen on a 5120x2880 retina display?
It seems more and more every year, the user's preference gets sidelined in favor of the web site designer's preference. I never thought it would get to this, but as web sites get more and more opinionated about enforcing their particular stylistic choices, I'm more often than not feeling the need to disable CSS or go into Reader mode. I wish browser developers would provide better tools to override questionable site designs, rather than taking them away. At least I can still change the font size with the browsers (shhhh--don't give them any ideas).
I'm not trying to tell you what to do. But if YOU make your browser wider than YOU can comfortably read, why do you expect ME the developer to do something with CSS to deal with it?
If I choose to fullscreen my browser window, I'm not expecting the developer to do anything about it. In fact, I'm hoping he will not choose to go out of his way to try to do something about it (e.g. deliberately adding whitespace). Honoring the user's preference often means less code/CSS.
The other rant is here: [1].
Curious why do you hope people don't use their browsers full-screen? How does someone else's browsing preference affect you? Am I a lesser person if I want to use my browser full-screen on a 5120x2880 retina display?
It seems more and more every year, the user's preference gets sidelined in favor of the web site designer's preference. I never thought it would get to this, but as web sites get more and more opinionated about enforcing their particular stylistic choices, I'm more often than not feeling the need to disable CSS or go into Reader mode. I wish browser developers would provide better tools to override questionable site designs, rather than taking them away. At least I can still change the font size with the browsers (shhhh--don't give them any ideas).
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690133