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Re:Why I Left Google by wpietri on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:48PM (#4051288)
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.
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Re:Why I Left Google by spencertipping on Thursday May 31, 2012 @11:33PM (#4051820)
That, and because my main machine is a 1024x600 netbook, so I sized it to fit on that screen.
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Re:Why I Left Google by CamperBob2 on Friday June 01, 2012 @01:42AM (#4052137)
How about letting the user make that call?
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Re:Why I Left Google by wpietri on Friday June 01, 2012 @09:15AM (#4053190)
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.

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