cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
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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.
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."
Yeah, good legibility is around 50-75 characters per line.