Waste of Space?
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Does anyone know why the huge majority of websites use a portrait format, but almost every computer monitor I have seen is landscape?
Because such design decisions are unfortunately not made by tech guys, but by managers, who look at landscape formatted powerpoint presentations all day.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Does anyone know why the huge majority of websites use a portrait format, but almost every computer monitor I have seen is landscape?
Ultimately, reading down a column does not need any horizontal eye movement : the eye literally traverses vertically through a column, for instance. That's why reading columns feel better than long horizontal text. Computer monitors used to be almost squares, and then got more and more in that portrait format when 16/9 supplanted 4/3. To watch a movie, you need peripheral vision, hence the wide screens ( well, you don't _need_ it, but immersion is greater). And since it is easier to not use some screen space than to add more screen space on demand, the first solution won. The big improvement was the modularity of smartphones and tablets : Use them in portrait to read, and landscape to watch movies and play games.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Does anyone know why the huge majority of websites use a portrait format, but almost every computer monitor I have seen is landscape?
It's not a waste of space if you don't run everything full screen all the time. You can adjust each window to the size you want it for the content it contains, and then lay them out on the screen so you can see what you want to see. Interestingly almost all of my windows actually end up around 4:3 landscape, apparently (looking at my screen right now).
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Ultimately, reading down a column does not need any horizontal eye movement : the eye literally traverses vertically through a column, for instance. That's why reading columns feel better than long horizontal text. Computer monitors used to be almost squares, and then got more and more in that portrait format when 16/9 supplanted 4/3. To watch a movie, you need peripheral vision, hence the wide screens ( well, you don't _need_ it, but immersion is greater). And since it is easier to not use some screen space than to add more screen space on demand, the first solution won. The big improvement was the modularity of smartphones and tablets : Use them in portrait to read, and landscape to watch movies and play games.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
Rage wrote:
Computer monitors used to be almost squares
Was that when monitors used to use a technology called...what was it called, umm......CRT? I've heard my Grandfather tell stories about it. :rolleyes:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Does anyone know why the huge majority of websites use a portrait format, but almost every computer monitor I have seen is landscape?
I run a Portrait monitor, and a landscape one. Much to my surprise I have gravitated to Chrome on the Portrait, and VS on my landscape. The later I expected, but I was perfectly happy with Chrome in Landscape before I added the portrait monitor. Now when I have to have Chrome in landscape it looks odd, and seems slower to read (probably because I can't see the whole line of text with my peripheral vision and speed read the whole line without moving my eyes)
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Does anyone know why the huge majority of websites use a portrait format, but almost every computer monitor I have seen is landscape?
You assume people keep their browsers maximized.
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Rage wrote:
Computer monitors used to be almost squares
Was that when monitors used to use a technology called...what was it called, umm......CRT? I've heard my Grandfather tell stories about it. :rolleyes:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Was that when monitors used to use a technology called...what was it called, umm......CRT?
The five 4:3 LCD monitors I have around the house say no.
Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
4:3 LCD monitors
You young whippersnappers!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
4:3 LCD monitors
You young whippersnappers!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote:
4:3 LCD monitors
You young whippersnappers!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
