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[-] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 12 points 1 week ago

I have trouble reading across wide screens, though, is that just me?

[-] bignose@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we've known that if a paragraph's text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it's more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There's an optimal range.)

https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/

For this reason, it's good for a website's style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.

[-] zerofk@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago

On desktop you can change window sizes to what you want. Don’t like wide text? Use part of the screen. But the inverse is not true: if a site decides to stay skinny you can’t make it wide if that’s what you prefer.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

This is why I miss square screens. And I miss proper UI/UX design which makes good use of screen real estate.

[-] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 6 points 1 week ago

Omg, same, so same. But putting anything I need to read (like... anything in a browser usually) in a smaller window is fine. Librewolf letterboxing kinda does it for me.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't actually have to maximise your windows, you can just set them to your favourite ratio.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you don't want to change the window size for whatever reason, I find that reader mode (F9) solves this problem pretty well.

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