Re:Why I Left Google
by jacalata on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:44PM
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offtopic nitpick: I have a really nice widescreen monitor, and you are giving me 13 words per line using about a quarter of the horizontal space. Why is that?
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For the same reason that broadsheet newspapers and magazines put the text in columns, I imagine. Because if you make text too wide it's hard to read.
Re:Why I Left Google
by spencertipping on Thursday May 31, 2012 @11:33PM
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That, and because my main machine is a 1024x600 netbook, so I sized it to fit on that screen.
Re:Why I Left Google
by CamperBob2 on Friday June 01, 2012 @01:42AM
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How about letting the user make that call?
That is the sort of thinking that gave us the X Windows configuration file.
Nobody wants to make that call for most things in their life. Nobody has time. There is definitely a minority of people who do want to carefully size each browser window for optimal reading, but it is a pretty small minority.