That argument completely falls flat if you consider the actual result: https://i.imgur.com/7mAQy5H.png It enrages me to no end that this is sold as an improvement.
• Who wants to read four to five words per line? THIS LINE SIZE IS ACTUALLY UTTER ASS.
• In the good design, it was easy to resize to window to make the line length narrower. However, in the bad design, there is no recourse to make the line length longer.
Re:Wikipedia is getting a new look
by davidivadavid on Thursday September 24, 2020 @09:19AM
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The "actual result" looks nothing like that in my browser, so I can't really judge, although I agree that it looks terrible on your screenshot (text overlapping in links, etc.).
However, the line length, while suboptimal there, is pretty commonly encountered — pick up a newspaper and look how many words fit in a column.
b) The alternative is not that people are "idiots who don't know how to use their window manager." I don't want to have to use my window manager. Manually resizing windows for each tab to get the right line length is a huge waste of time and seems idiotic to me. I want a professional designer to make it so I have the best possible reading experience on the websites I'm browsing. Because I'm humble enough to know I couldn't reach that standard by "using my window manager".