Vent: Screen shapes/site shapes

Sheldon_Cooper

JReacher1 wrote: »

On the troll comment it makes me laugh when you deliberately altered my first post to make out I posted something I didnt.

For goodness sake, stop bleating on about major devices. It's a red herring and more than one poster has explained to you very clearly why it's a red herring. You're just being an annoying troll now.

I worry this thread will end up like last time when you deleted all your posts and pm'd me an apology

Something I suspect happened in your fervid imagination rather than in real life.

JReacher1

Sheldon_Cooper wrote: »

For goodness sake, stop bleating on about major devices. It's a red herring and more than one poster has explained to you very clearly why it's a red herring. You're just being an annoying troll now.



Something I suspect happened in your fervid imagination rather than in real life.

If my statement about major devices was a red herring then all websites would function the same on all devices. As they don't then my statement is true....

bod1467

JReacher1 wrote: »

Screen size does make a difference but the browser is more as important than as screen size.

Exactly (with that minor correction) ... that's why most site designers will test as many permutations as they reasonably can, but it's impossible to test everything. As such, your comment about major devices is correct.

Money-Saving-King

Got to admit I agree with what another poster has said. Basically I've no idea what the op is on about and have ever had this problem. On a PC adjust the size of your browser and then the text to suit you using the + & - buttons whilst holding the control key. On mobile devices again just zoom until your happy with the size of the text.

Ectophile

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Got to admit I agree with what another poster has said. Basically I've no idea what the op is on about and have ever had this problem. On a PC adjust the size of your browser and then the text to suit you using the + & - buttons whilst holding the control key. On mobile devices again just zoom until your happy with the size of the text.

I understand well what the OP is on about, and to be honest I'm baffled at why so many people don't get it :wall:. Computers these days often have very wide, and fairly short screens. Yet some web designers think their web sites should have a narrow fixed width when displayed on the screen, with big empty borders each side if the screen is wider. The end result is a stupid little block of text in the middle of your screen that you have to keep scrolling up and down to read the article(s).

Re-sizing the font is irrelevant - it's not about whether or not the font is big enough to read. Re-sizing the browser window doesn't help in the slightest. You could make the browser narrower, and look at whatever wallpaper you have your the screen instead of the big borders, but that still doesn't do anything to actually use all that screen real-estate that's sitting idle.

The problem is the web designers who think that they know best how to format everything on the screen, despite the huge range of screens (including tablets) that people are now using.

artbaron

Ectophile wrote: »

I understand well what the OP is on about, and to be honest I'm baffled at why so many people don't get it :wall:. Computers these days often have very wide, and fairly short screens. ... the end result is a stupid little block of text in the middle of your screen that you have to keep scrolling up and down to read the article(s).

What difference does the width of the monitor make if you're concerned with how much content you can fit vertically? A monitor with a vertical res of 1200 will have 1200 pixels vertically whether it's 1600 wide or 1900 wide or a mile and a half wide. Makes no sense.

Money-Saving-King

Ectophile wrote: »

with big empty borders each side if the screen is wider. The end result is a stupid little block of text in the middle of your screen that you have to keep scrolling up and down to read the article(s).

But holding the Ctrl button and pressing + or - gets rid of it so I don't see the problem.