It has nothing to do with entitlement. If you choose an arbitrary width based on usability studies, you may make a large percentage of users happy, but if you let users set the width by resizing their browser, you make 100% of users happy. Why not choose the latter?
You won't make 100% of the users happy. In fact if argue you would make the majority of the users unhappy. I don't want to have to realize my browser for every web site. Is rather have a website that is fairly easy to read without me doing anything. I think most people would want that.
My windows stay maximized and I’m not about to faff about, resizing them. When I come across an Ultra Panavision website I usually just open the dev tools with a single F-key to squish it.
If the user needs to set their own width by resizing the window they can also set the width by right-clicking -> inspect element -> disabling the CSS style on the div that gives it a max width. Which is only a couple more clicks than resizing the window and affects a lot less people.
Resizing browser is cumbersome and will definitely NOT make me happy. Especially since I have tiled desktop but even without it.
If you really want to please everybody here, introduce an option that is remembered in a cookie (reading preference, trivial to implement). There is no one size fit all here.
kmoser|4 months ago
chrismcb|4 months ago
Waterluvian|4 months ago
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majkinetor|4 months ago
If you really want to please everybody here, introduce an option that is remembered in a cookie (reading preference, trivial to implement). There is no one size fit all here.
lawn|4 months ago
It's very ignorant to believe 100% of users are happy with having to resize their browsers just to get a pleasant rendering of the site.
Gigablah|4 months ago
xdennis|4 months ago
I seriously doubt there are any people who resize their browser window every time they switch tabs.