Bone – Minimalist Display of Websites

In Windows, I have a AHK script that turns a window into a small rectangle at the bottom of my screen, with 70% transparency, always on top, no titlebar: it lets me continue on my current task with minimal distraction, as it's see-through.

I use that to keep an eye on long running operations, on notes I take in notepad during a conference call, etc.

I press again the key, and the windows becomes another normal window again.

I guess that's tiling?

Otherwise, I do as you do for most of my apps: I run them in full screen mode, but no task bar, not even a titlebar as I find that too distracting. I strip down most of the details until only the app itself remains. It helps me focus, and remove useless cruft.

About cruft, IDE are among the most awful offenders, full of so many ribbons, margins and other gimmicks that they ressemble Word in its hayday ( check https://i.huffpost.com/gen/714057/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-TOOLBAR... if you don't get what I mean ), with less and less of the screen usable for the actual principal function: writing (and reading)

I tile (in the traditional sense) when I have the screen real estate to do so. Particularly when using large (>=32") screens with at least 4k resolution. However, I do find Windows built-in window arrangement tools (Win+arrows) to be suitable for that task.

Yeah - I used xmonad on arch for a bit in college for the novelty and agree. Magnet on macOS is good enough. The other thing about tiling window managers is often the graphics of the window are really ugly with bad fonts - not specifically a tiling issue but another thing I didn't like about using it.

I use a large high res display too - the advantage from tiling just isn't that real or important imo.

I can relate. I've tried various tilling solutions, but they never actually work in the real world. Always an edge case or you lose basic functions like adjusting everything when you dock a laptop

That was until I used paperwm. It's diffent from most tiling because it works out of the box for everything I do daily. Slack, zoom, terminal and chrome mostly

It does this by scrolling horizontally and all windows default full height. Matches perfectly to my mental model of window workflow

Works so nicely because you hide windows without minimizing, just scroll away

I've always thought of it as tiling for humans, in a joking manner

> I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and Win+Right key combos).

I only ever use my computer this way, except for a few floating windows like quick terminal stuff or using a file picker.

I do think a tiling window manager would be fine, I would just switch to a new desktop if I need new windows, and I wouldn't have to manage the windows manually.

I'm on the other end of that spectrum.

I can't for the life of me understand why any website would need to have more than a half of my vertical screen. And if the UI design lets me get away with it, less.

The only scenarios for a full-screen window in the browser, for me is while watching a video (not always, sometimes) or reading a lengthy single-page thing, or perhaps looking at a cloud provider dashboard with many, many things presented in as much detail as their UX engineer can not contextualize for you.

So mostly full screen video, sometimes.

Other than that, no, I have things on my screen open for work or context. No fullscreen windows, please.

F11 in Firefox gets rid of all of it.

Not a browser, but iTerm2 has this functionality built in. I could see how it would be awesome in a browser.

eww in emacs can do this. Open desired page, then create a split / new window. It defaults to the same buffer you already had open. Scroll one, and the other stays where it is. If you change the web page, they will both change.

A new and rebranded return to 1997 HTML?

"Web -3.0"?

Seriously though UI/UX and Human Design seem to be lost arts these days as template sites took over. Because of mobile phones and many different screen formats, sites are crazy in form and function. We should probably seriously all consider going back to a Human Centered focus, and to revert to the practice of perfectly simplifying function, controls, and features in everything we develop.

Yes.

Name one.