Fluid width content on entry pages

[little_terror]

Title:
Fluid width content on entry pages

Area:
styles, entries, usability

Summary:
Fluid width content on entry pages to improve usability and readability.

Description:
At the moment, DW only seems to provide fixed content on default/unstyled entry pages. Because of the fixed content parameters, overwhelming whitespace can be an issue for larger monitors and computers running higher resolutions. Moreover, long comment threads end up "shrinking" very quickly, necessitating users to click more links (such as thread or expand) in order to view content.

Fluid width for entry pages would decrease the amount of uncomfortable whitespace users running higher resolutions encounter. Fluid width would also prevent long comment threads from shrinking too quickly and decrease the amount of clicking users are required to do at present.

Implementation of fluid width should not be difficult, as the style sheet that currently powers the default entry style only needs to have fluid width coded into style containers.

In conclusion, fluid width would improve usability and readability across platform and resolution. I hope the DW development team considers this suggestion!

Poll #9492 Fluid width content on entry pages

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 51

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (19.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (9.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
20 (39.2%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (25.5%)

(Other: please comment)
3 (5.9%)

Comments

[musyc]

God no. A VERY large part of the reason I love DW's default site scheme is because it's fixed width. Fluid width is horrible for reading text. Eyestrain and fatigue is a huge problem for me when sites put fluid width as a default. That's getting into the hundreds of characters in a line and the sheer repetition of flicking back to the beginning for the next line of text does a number on my eye muscles.

Implementing a fluid width option in the schemes, like the light-on-dark option, I wouldn't object to, but leave the fixed width as is.

[ratcreature]

+1
I appreciate the fixed width as well on my widescreen laptop.

[turlough]

Hear, hear!

[instantramen]

+1