But only power users rotate their monitors. Which, by the way, screws up my metrics because the resolution still shows up in the original wide-short. No, most people just leave 'em as they were when they came out of the box. And heavens no, 4:3 makes loud sucking noises. It's just that, for a society acclimated to 8.5x11 and document reading and writing and processing, it seems very odd that more monitors don't take long as seriously as wide, especially since most people use screen real-estate as an on-off thing (only mac users tile). Most websites sprawl across the page or leave big bars on either side these days... and from a readability standpoint, we can't follow more than about 12 - 15 words in a row without our brains getting sore. And yet we still scroll down. Down with scrolling! Up with shorter line lengths!
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You can rotate most monitors 90 degrees. Surely you're not asking for a return to the wretched 4:3 aspect ratio.
But only power users rotate their monitors. Which, by the way, screws up my metrics because the resolution still shows up in the original wide-short. No, most people just leave 'em as they were when they came out of the box. And heavens no, 4:3 makes loud sucking noises. It's just that, for a society acclimated to 8.5x11 and document reading and writing and processing, it seems very odd that more monitors don't take long as seriously as wide, especially since most people use screen real-estate as an on-off thing (only mac users tile). Most websites sprawl across the page or leave big bars on either side these days... and from a readability standpoint, we can't follow more than about 12 - 15 words in a row without our brains getting sore. And yet we still scroll down. Down with scrolling! Up with shorter line lengths!
Movies. When was the last time you watched a movie on a portrait screen?
Bah.
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