I wish this worked for games, I'd totally be a portrait user.
A triple monitor setup with 2 side monitors in portrait mode seems to be optimal these days. That way your primary monitor can still be used to watch media and play games in the "standard" widescreen format, but your code and browser can readily be viewed on the sides.
For ergonomic reasons your work should be in front of you. If you're staring at a side monitor long term that'll wreak havoc on your neck.
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> our existing content infrastructure TechNet and MSDN... are built on a 10-15 year-old brittle codebase
I share this "pain". I have the unshakable habit of triple-clicking a paragraph to highlight it to serve as a mark of where I was at when i need to interrupt reading.
I also have the same ehabit. I a glad I am not the only one.
I also have the same ehabit. I a glad I am not the only one.
Me too, anyone know why this is a thing? Such a common twitch... does it help reading?
In french I say "astigmate". Either vertical or horizontal lines are blurred. Plus maybe you're tired. Anyway you can follow straight lines and you select something to add a visual clue of your position. "It's all because of" modern designers and their featureless screens.
> On my 32" 4K display, 70% of the screen is empty. Totally agreed on your other points (particularly about animations on selection) but as the article mentions, eye tracking repeatedly shows people have trouble reading very wide text. Also many people use large monitors to have multiple windows, rather than a single window maximised.
> eye tracking repeatedly shows people have trouble reading very wide text Yes but to optimize for larger screens, the correct thing to do is to scale everything up (fonts, spacing, etc) in a responsive manner. The amount of text content per line wouldn't change much, it would just fill up the screen better instead of using the same tiny font size you'd use for a 13inch screen @ 1080p on a 32" 4K display.
No, to optimize for larger screens you simply acknowledge that it's the user's machine, not yours, and do nothing. The user will make their own choices. If they want to open multiple windows so they can read multiple columns of text, they will do that. If they want to make the text bigger, they will do that. If they like it the way it is, they'll leave it alone. Not your problem to solve.
From TFA: "Shortened Article Length Another common piece of feedback was that our content at times can be overwhelming because of its length and that long articles are more difficult to navigate and find what you’re looking for. To address this, we’ve broken down many longer articles into smaller logical steps and provided Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of articles to navigate between steps in a multi-part t…
It makes it much easier to collect metrics on what people have read.
I thought biggest improvement to the MS website, MSDN and technet included, would be simply to disable the incessant demands for feedback on the webpage or surveys.
Would you like to take a short 25 minute survey? You visited this site 25,000 times previously and we have asked each of those times, but maybe this time you will change your mind and answer the survey.
Oh no. It pops up a quick menu when I select text, like Medium. The problem is that I'm constantly selecting the lines I'm reading. :( Edit: Also, it's extremely narrow. On my 32" 4K display, 70% of the screen is empty. And the font is too think. And stuff keeps moving/jumping when I'm moving the mouse cursor. I want 1998 back.
I don't remember 1998 too well, but I read the article formatted like this http://m.imgur.com/yWTv9Xz and I still find it preferable to the original.