Browsing Anandtech on a 2560 wide monitor is just annoying!

[bradcollins]

Along with most other sites for that matter. I have a full 180mm on each side of the article that is completely blank! This includes the advertisements and news listings on the right.

Can we get more text to scale onto the line and make each page wider automatically to suit each screen?

Or even just design it for the lowest common denominator of 1366 wide screens? The website is just over 1000 pixels wide, designed primarily for 1024x768 screens I guess, but according to the Steam hardware survey, just over 4% of people have this resolution, the only other resoultions below 1366x768 that was above a very small percentage was 1280x800 and 1280x1024, a combined percentage of 12.5%.

20% of people have 1366x768 and 29% of people have 1920x1080. I wonder if it would be possible to design the website based on those two resolutions and to have the browser render the website appropriately. I accept that having a screen res above 1920 width makes me the minority, but surely it makes sense to have the website suit more people than just 4%?

I'm not really familiar with website design at all, but surely it can't be that hard for a page to be designed to snap to either suit 1366 or 1920 wide and to automatically go to 1366 if the screen/window size is less than 1920 wide, or to go to 1920 if the screen/window is above that in width?

 

[Sleepingforest]

I'd say you're in the minority of use cases. Most people who browse this forum are probably 1080p, 1440p, or 1600p (and a few multi-monitor folks), but few browse in full screen. My own 1080p monitor is generally divided in half, one to find parts and the other to browse the forums.

 

[pandemonium]

They could completely rescale the website for a small percentage of the population, or you could Ctrl+mouse wheel and rescale your browser?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

LOL @ stealth brag thread.

 

[bradcollins]

Sleepingforest, the forums do actually scale out wider quite well. The main website however does not. I do obviously have pages in windows quite a lot, but I also like having an article completely cover a screen, to be completely immersed in it. I'm now at work where I have a 1920x1200 screen and the amount of wasted space on it is quite large as well.

pandemonium, I don't want to have as many words on the screen as someone running a 1366x768 monitor. If I didn't care about the amount of screen area I would have stuck with my previous 24" monitor and never would have bought the 27"

dave_the_nerd, a 27" monitor isn't that special, or are you just jealous?

 

[DominionSeraph]

Switch to portrait.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

They could completely rescale the website for a small percentage of the population, or you could Ctrl+mouse wheel and rescale your browser?

Or have two windows open side-by-side...

Zooming to 125%/133% can be helpful if you just want one window open. It helps with readability while not being TOO large...

(typed on a 1440p)

 

[dpodblood]

Wow talk about a first world problem.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Wow talk about a first world problem.

Exactly.

My advise.

Deal with it.

 

[mfenn]

LOL @ stealth brag thread.

Lol, my first thought as well.

OP, just don't fullscreen the browser window. Reading a line of text that stretches all the way across a 2560-wide panel is quite a lot slower than reading that same line compressed into a narrower (but taller) column.

Ideally, you want to keep the window narrow enough so that you don't have to move your eyes very far (certainly not your whole head) to read from line to line. This is just a basic physiological fact, why do you think that newspapers and scientific journals are still in columnar format? Because that's the fastest for reading.

 

[Eureka]

Kind of off topic, but in Win 7, how can you get two browser windows to easily tile side by side? I know back in Win XP you could ctrl+shift click both windows and cascade them, but I don't know of the method for Win 7...

 

[mfenn]

Kind of off topic, but in Win 7, how can you get two browser windows to easily tile side by side? I know back in Win XP you could ctrl+shift click both windows and cascade them, but I don't know of the method for Win 7...

Grab the first window by the title bar and drag it to the left edge of the screen, you should see the outline snap into place. Release the left mouse button and it will snap to the outline. Repeat for the other window, only this time dragging it to the right.

 

[Eureka]

Grab the first window by the title bar and drag it to the left edge of the screen, you should see the outline snap into place. Release the left mouse button and it will snap to the outline. Repeat for the other window, only this time dragging it to the right.

Hot dog! Thanks so much.

 

[dpodblood]

Grab the first window by the title bar and drag it to the left edge of the screen, you should see the outline snap into place. Release the left mouse button and it will snap to the outline. Repeat for the other window, only this time dragging it to the right.

You can also do the same thing by prettying Windows+Left or Windows+Right keyboard shortcuts.

 

[lehtv]

You can also do the same thing by prettying Windows+Left or Windows+Right keyboard shortcuts.

Thanks for that :biggrin:

 

[Chapbass]

You can also do the same thing by prettying Windows+Left or Windows+Right keyboard shortcuts.

This works better in multi-monitor setups because then you can half-screen a window to the inside of a monitor (that shares a border with another inside edge of a different monitor).

 

[sm625]

What you should do is press Winkey+Right Arrow. That will resize your window to take up half the screen.

 

[ElFenix]

bragplaining++

i haven't used fullscreen browser since i first set my 17" monitor to 1280x1024 back in 1998.

 

[HendrixFan]

I'm on a 2560 and I never fullscreen my browser. Even if most sites scaled properly, and very few do, it would be extraordinarily tough to read at that width.

 

[postmortemIA]

agree with the sentiment, OP's mindset is like he upgraded from 1280x1024 monitor to this.
there are better uses of 1440p monitor than fullscreen browsing

 

[Puppies04]

LOL @ stealth brag thread.

My thoughts exactly .

I need to go now, my super heavy gold rolex is making my arm ache while typing.

 

[Sleepingforest]

LOL @ stealth brag thread.

Somewhat agreed. The fact that he posted again makes me thing it's a genuinely annoying problem for him.

I would say more, but I have to go now to oversee the last but of construction on my fourth beach house in the Caribbean.

 

[VirtualLarry]

LOL. I rarely full-screen my browser anymore.

Edit: On my desktop (1920x1200) and my laptop (1366x768) I generally don't. On my 720P LCD HDTV, I do.

 

[mfenn]

You can also do the same thing by prettying Windows+Left or Windows+Right keyboard shortcuts.

:thumbsup: Even better!