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Color Laser Printer WIFI (Although I'm old!)
rdl:
My display is 1920x1080, but I also use a 27" monitor which sits on a normal size desk. If the browser was using the full screen I'd be constantly turning my head right and left to read each line. That gets uncomfortable after a while, so instead the browser is only around 60-70% of full width. With all the empty space most pages insert this ends up appearing about the same as a normal sized hardback book. Inserting unnecessary line breaks causes many lines to end abruptly in the middle of the page.
rsjsouza:
@GlennSprigg, just to give some illustration regarding the manual line breaks delimiting continuous text.
This is how your last post is shown on a 1280x720 screen :-+
This is how your first post is shown on the same screen above :(
This is how your first post is shown in a Galaxy S9 cellphone on its 2990x1440 screen :--
That is how your last post is shown in the same screen above. :-+
james_s:
The thing that jumps out at me is that a 2990x1440 is displaying maybe half the information than can reasonably be fit on a paltry 640x480 display. The low information density trend drives me nuts, modern UI design reminds me of Duplo blocks for kiddies, resolutions get higher so they make UI elements bigger. What's the point of such a high resolution display if not to fit a lot of content on it at once?
Zero999:
--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on March 03, 2020, 12:20:52 pm ---To "Lord of Nothing" & "tooki" (and who ever else...).
The line above, for example, & this one, is short!, so I hit ENTER.
I'm not trying to piss anyone off deliberately, and I guess I (wrongfully) assume that the VAST majority of peoples screens these days are at least 1024 wide now, (usually 'much' more!), although I admit that I did not consider the likes of Mobile-Phones... I just personally dislike long continuous lines like this, where even my low-res laptop is 1366 wide, almost cramming Paragraphs into one line!! ;D
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Add my name to the annoyed list.
If long lines bother you, resize your browser window or increase the zoom setting.
Adding new lines might make it look good to you, on your display, but you don't know what resolution/font setting other people use, which is likely to mess it up.
If you refuse to change, you risk being put on many ignore lists.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 04, 2020, 06:31:55 am ---The thing that jumps out at me is that a 2990x1440 is displaying maybe half the information than can reasonably be fit on a paltry 640x480 display. The low information density trend drives me nuts, modern UI design reminds me of Duplo blocks for kiddies, resolutions get higher so they make UI elements bigger. What's the point of such a high resolution display if not to fit a lot of content on it at once?
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eBay is a good example. On my 1920x1200 display here, I can see exactly 3 listings when the browser is maximized. In the old days, you would see probably a dozen listings on a much lower resolution monitor... but the "white pixel supremacist" designers seem to have a real phobia about using pixels that have any colour other than white...
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