Paul's 'grumble of the day'
Thu, 11/01/2007 - 21:04 — Paul
I've got a widescreen monitor at 1680x1050 on my desktop, and a 1600x1200 resolution on my laptop... and i'm not the only one with a high res or widescreen display.
So my grumble of the day is directed at sites that don't format their content to fill the screen - I don't want your whole site squashed in a slice down the middle!
A case in point is Jason Dunn's blog, but i'm not picking on him particularly, lots of sites do it. Here's a thumbnail of what his site looks like on my screen... see what I mean?
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PS I notice Jason is using WLW too... the word is spreading! ;-)
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Re: Paul's 'grumble of the day'
It's actually good typography to do that , though -- lots of studies show the human eye has problems reading text if there's more than about 60-70 characters across the line. As lines get longer than that, in long paragraphs your eye gets confused when moving from the right hand margin to the left and loses where you are in the paragraph. It's a subtle effect, and one that is registered subliminally rather than conciously, but there's psychology research papers based on comprehension metrics that demonstrate the effect definitely exists.
I personally prefer fixed width web layouts for that reason.