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Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by WWLink on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:19PM (#24571489)
> when paragraphs are that wide they become harder to read

I hope I don't sound like a jerk saying this, but resizing the browser window is the key. I dunno why some people maximize everything on their computer - that's a really inefficient use of space.

I wish more websites wouldn't try to force formatting on me and just let me resize my window.

Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by mywittyname on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:24PM (#24571560)
Well, I use tabs and not every website looks best at the same size. So I don't think the approach works. (FWIW, I'm also a non-full-screen user).

But you're probably on to something. I would be cool if the web browser would allow you to adjust the body size of the document without adjusting the window size.

Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by ehavener on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:11PM (#24572086)
Opening the dev tools works
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by WWLink on Friday September 25, 2020 @03:06AM (#24587300)
It'd be neat if it worked like the ruler at the top of an MS word window (or textedit/wordpad), where you can drag in the margins!
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by pintxo on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @06:44PM (#24573072)
Reader View is available in Firefox.
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by Atomskun on Thursday September 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#24581650)
That's...in literally every browser's setting since the beginning of browsers.
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by zzo38computer on Friday September 25, 2020 @09:57PM (#24595837)
> I wish more websites wouldn't try to force formatting on me and just let me resize my window.

I agree. Fossil mostly requires the use of CSS, but my own stuff I tend to not use CSS if I can avoid it, and often just write plain text files anyways (rather than HTML), which works well even if you are viewing them outside of the web browser, as well as with the web browser, too.

Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look by watwut on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @05:00PM (#24571981)
I don't maximize anything, but site that expects me to raise browser is obnoxious. It is not the only tab and idon't want to resize especially separately for each