cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
Okay, I know I know that 99.9% of humans own a mobile phone, and the percentage that own a computer is much lower, but I’ve always hated how websites (first noticed with Google Search and Facebook) stopped caring about rendering for desktops and just utilised 30% of the screen width. Half the internet is a skinny portrait mode on a landscape screen and has been for ages
Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.
I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There’s no full screen feature.
Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.
It’s skinny so that they can stuff the sides full of ads.
Pretty sure narrow text width has been a thing for ages, even before smartphones. Unless you mean a newer, narrower style I guess. It’s easier to read when you can see both ends of a line at the same time so even letters are written on portrait paper.
And I’m not a web developer, but if I had to guess styling a page to limit the text width on a wide screen probably takes more effort, not less.
Yeah, good legibility is around 50-75 characters per line.
I have trouble reading across wide screens, though, is that just me?
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.
This is why I miss square screens. And I miss proper UI/UX design which makes good use of screen real estate.
You don’t actually have to maximise your windows, you can just set them to your favourite ratio.
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.
If you don’t want to change the window size for whatever reason, I find that reader mode (F9) solves this problem pretty well.
So the 30 characters wide texts are a thing? And here i always thought that was a issue with one of my userstyles.