> Way too wide paragraphs to be read comfortably on a standard Full HD monitor.
That's the users fault.
Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page
by avgcorrection on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:14AM
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The Unix Way. I love it.
Most web pages aren't designed to be viewed on a full-width browser window for the exact reason you said.
Point of order: Resizable windows are the Xerox PARC way.
You know that you can change a browser window's size? The alternative is a thin strip of text with enormous margins, which I find about as annoying as overly long lines. Written pages aren't really mean to be displayed in very wide windows.
Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page
by avgcorrection on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:53AM
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I didn’t know that you can resize windows.
Seriously though I have Firefox’ Reader Mode for subpar websites.
Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page
by AnimalMuppet on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:36PM
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Doesn't HN give you paragraphs just as wide?
Re:Brian Kernighan's Home Page
by avgcorrection on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:49PM
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Shoot… :-)
EDIT: On second thought though it seems that people are reading too much into it and just projecting this “branding” onto their hero (see my other comment in this thread). Ironically yes: they probably are too busy to craft their homepages in such a way that people on HN will be impressed by their couldn’t-care-less attitude!