I seem to be experiencing some technical issues

Akagi · 20 May 2013 at 00:43

Shayper · 20 May 2013 at 01:01

Stop giving your computer acid, it's not supported by the OcUK warranty.

mrk · 20 May 2013 at 01:01

Why do people on widescreen read webpages full screen when it's much nicer for both practice and eyes to read a more portrait window?

Akagi · 20 May 2013 at 01:16

mrk said:
Why do people on widescreen read webpages full screen when it's much nicer for both practice and eyes to read a more portrait window?

Habit I guess.

I have never even thought about it.

I do most of my reading (forums, wikipedia, news articles etc) on my second screen though, and the screen is physically oriented in portrait anyway

Akagi · 20 May 2013 at 01:16

Shayper said:
Stop giving your computer acid, it's not supported by the OcUK warranty.

That's not what 5UB told me

sigma · 20 May 2013 at 01:17

acme15 said:
I have never even thought about it.

That's because it's not really a problem.

Plus it allows you to have a billion tabs open at once :cool:

Bromhead · 20 May 2013 at 01:58

It is..... beautiful........

Rroff · 20 May 2013 at 02:08

mrk said:
Why do people on widescreen read webpages full screen when it's much nicer for both practice and eyes to read a more portrait window?

Most web sites I visit the pages are either already formatted to display centralised portrait style or have enough content to make use of the width.

Also the 2 monitors I use mostly for desktop stuff i.e. web browsing are 2048x1152 and 2560x1080

the 2048x one does rotate to portrait tho which I sometimes make use of.

Hellsmk2 · 20 May 2013 at 02:25

mrk said:
Why do people on widescreen read webpages full screen when it's much nicer for both practice and eyes to read a more portrait window?

Why do you care?

Strife212 · 20 May 2013 at 03:15

mrk said:
Why do people on widescreen read webpages full screen when it's much nicer for both practice and eyes to read a more portrait window?

I've literally never even thought of that o_O

Efour · 20 May 2013 at 07:00

looks normal to me

Cosimo · 20 May 2013 at 08:51

Hellsmk2 said:
Why do you care?

mrk · 20 May 2013 at 09:01

Rroff said:
Most web sites I visit the pages are either already formatted to display centralised portrait style or have enough content to make use of the width.

Also the 2 monitors I use mostly for desktop stuff i.e. web browsing are 2048x1152 and 2560x1080 the 2048x one does rotate to portrait tho which I sometimes make use of.

Yeah many sites are centralised but my point was the browser in maximised just wastes space and looks a bit awkward. Plus, with the browser window sized right on screens like yours (and mine!) other stuff can go around it and still be useful

Hellsmk2 said:
Why do you care?

I don't care how people decide to use their computers but as it turns out from some replies here and in the past, people just aren't aware of the benefits.

Anyway, this is a computer forum, why wouldn't anyone pass on good tips about them to others?

Haggisman · 20 May 2013 at 10:06

mrk said:
Yeah many sites are centralised but my point was the browser in maximised just wastes space and looks a bit awkward. Plus, with the browser window sized right on screens like yours (and mine!) other stuff can go around it and still be useful

I don't care how people decide to use their computers but as it turns out from some replies here and in the past, people just aren't aware of the benefits.

Anyway, this is a computer forum, why wouldn't anyone pass on good tips about them to others?

Because it's a pain to have to keep changing from maximised -> windowed -> maximised -> windowed ad infinitum when switching between pages which work well in widescreen and pages that don't.