KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown

Re:KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown by jfreax on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:07PM (#8930623)

Maybe it's a well-researched article, but am I the only one that bothers the structure of the website? I am not able to read it. The text is just in the middle, really big white space left and right. Than there is this big wallpaper on every page. By the way, why so many pages?

Sorry for off-topic.

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Re:KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown by from_elsewhere on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:21PM (#8931127)

The the column width is just about ideal at approximately 77 characters per line.It could be slightly wider without detracting from the readability, but not all that much. [1][2]

The negative space left and right is to ensure an optimal column width. If there is nothing important to place to the sides, anything added there would serve only to distract from the flow of article content. That is to say, filling space for no reason is unreasonable.

Pagination is its own thing, and I won't comment one way or another on that.

[1] http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/recom...

[2] http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...

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Re:KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown by 16bytes on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:17PM (#8931092)

Looks to be an attempt at setting a readable line-length.

http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

I usually like reading articles with this width, but there's usually a different color background to differentiate the article from the page so there's not this huge white-space void.

Other than that I thought the article easy to read.

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Re:KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown by ch215 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:29PM (#8930751)

I think the article is actually quite readable. However, the fact that javascript is required to render any text does irk me a little. Edit: I may have jumped the gun: the site now seems to be loading fine without js.

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Re:KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown by jfreax on Thursday January 22, 2015 @05:21PM (#8932150)

Ahh, okay, it seems to be fixed now. There was a fullscreen image on top of every site (you could not even see the headline!). The width looks good now, maybe it way just my high resolution monitor (UHD)?

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Re:KDE's Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown by anindyabd on Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:31PM (#8931198)

Maybe they did that for sake of responsiveness? The site looks really good from my phone.

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