• lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
    74·
    1 day ago

    Okay, I know I know that 99.9% of humans own a mobile phone, and the percentage that own a computer is much lower, but I’ve always hated how websites (first noticed with Google Search and Facebook) stopped caring about rendering for desktops and just utilised 30% of the screen width. Half the internet is a skinny portrait mode on a landscape screen and has been for ages

    • FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I hate how Desktop UI in general has been moving towards Mobile design for the last decade.
      Everything has to always look like the latest shit from silicon valley, I despise it.

      Imo all the work that was put into UI design for the last 20 years has been wasted effort.
      I still use GNUStep and OpenMotif based Desktops because I genuinely think that those are better designed, and they haven’t been touched in forever.

    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
      3·
      15 hours ago

      There’s one reason I don’t use LibreOffice word processor on Linux, and that’s because it uses a mobile scrollbar, which is incredibly frustrating if your doc is more than a few pages, and completely unusable with, say, a multi chapter story. Just released a major UI update, still unusable, because they won’t put buttons on their fucking scrollbar in app literally designed around scrolling. Fuck you, Libre.

      • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I hope Calligra, Collabora, CryptPad, NextCloud Office, OnlyOffice (uses Microsoft formats -_-) or OpenOffice (LibreOffice’s origin, reportedly even worse/older UI) are suitable alternatives! Note that not all of them have apps on mobile in case you value cross-platform usage, and NextCloud and CryptPad are web-based only. Other than that all are great on Linux.

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.

      I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There’s no full screen feature.

      Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.

      • bignose@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we’ve known that if a paragraph’s text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it’s more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There’s an optimal range.)

        https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/

        For this reason, it’s good for a website’s style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.

      • zerofk@lemmy.zip
        17·
        2 days ago

        On desktop you can change window sizes to what you want. Don’t like wide text? Use part of the screen. But the inverse is not true: if a site decides to stay skinny you can’t make it wide if that’s what you prefer.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        This is why I miss square screens. And I miss proper UI/UX design which makes good use of screen real estate.

        • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Omg, same, so same. But putting anything I need to read (like… anything in a browser usually) in a smaller window is fine. Librewolf letterboxing kinda does it for me.

      • chunes@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        If you don’t want to change the window size for whatever reason, I find that reader mode (F9) solves this problem pretty well.

    • Lojcs@piefed.socialEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      Pretty sure narrow text width has been a thing for ages, even before smartphones. Unless you mean a newer, narrower style I guess. It’s easier to read when you can see both ends of a line at the same time so even letters are written on portrait paper.

      And I’m not a web developer, but if I had to guess styling a page to limit the text width on a wide screen probably takes more effort, not less.

      • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Yeah I mean, these are fine:

        But anything thinner is just a waste, such as:

        As for web dev, no doubt some situations would be more complex than others, but usually it’s as easy as saying “if the screen is x wide, render like a, otherwise render like b.”

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
      2·
      2 days ago

      So the 30 characters wide texts are a thing? And here i always thought that was a issue with one of my userstyles.