Friday, March 04, 2011

Fixed width layouts

I got a shiny new 24" monitor at work yesterday. Aside from it making my super-mario themed desktop look even more awesome, it also finally lets me see webpages in something that's larger than 1280x10
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But I've found a problem. Very much in the vein of #firstworldproblems. So many websites have fixed width content. Which results in tons and tons of useless whitespace.

Whitespace has its usefulness. But when it's over half of my monitor's width, it's not really adding to my ability to view your content. It's just a waste of space.

And it turns out this is really common for a lot of websites. Github.com, DownChrisDown.com, Gizmodo.com. What were those developers thinking?

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