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Comment by wereHamster | Hacker News Reader

Please, use a max-width on text columns. The article is unreadable on a large screen.

I tend to hate max-width on sites because I'm left with a giant white page that's only using a few % of the space for text.

But design is not only about looking good. It may look nice but with terrible UX.

Only if you have your browser window maximised or very large, which kind of defeats the purpose of a windowed multitasking OS.

You know, you can have more than one screen. And working wth visual/design/UI tools you pretty much want to use as much of the screen as possible. Most of the time I have a browser fullscreen on one of my screens.

> working wth visual/design/UI tools you pretty much want to use as much of the screen as possible.

Really? You maximise your content window ? Then where do you leave all your tool-windows ? On a second monitor ? Do you only design widescreen content ? Don't you think those white bars on the left/right of your content is a total waste of screen real estate ?

This is a losing battle. For people who have been reflexively maximising everything since they were using Win95 on little goldfish bowl CRTs, they simply won't stop doing it, no matter how ridiculous it is on big/wide screens.

I've been using full screen for some windows since my xterm days using 21" Sun Sony Trinitron monitors and I don't plan to stop now.

As long as it's not reflexive for virtually every application, you're golden.

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