Timeline for How wide should a webpage get?
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| Jan 1, 2016 at 16:57 | vote | accept | bjb568 | ||
| Mar 17, 2014 at 13:57 | answer | added | Hynes | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 7:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/445469212581298176 | ||
| Mar 17, 2014 at 7:29 | comment | added | Kit Grose | I think the best you'll find is the max line length debate. There's more to it than that, though; there are people who feel that every pixel not dedicated to content is a waste of their hardware—high information density makes them feel special/elite. Some users use a big screen because it allows them to have the font size much larger to help with poor eyesight. Some use a big screen because they want to do lots of things at once. Normally a big screen means the user is further away so there's a font size implication too. It all comes down to "what behaviour would most benefit my users?" | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 7:27 | vote | accept | bjb568 | ||
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| Mar 17, 2014 at 7:26 | answer | added | Benny Skogberg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 7:09 | comment | added | bjb568 | @Kit Can't there still be a "90% of people will die when they see a 500px fixed-width website" number? | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:54 | comment | added | Kit Grose | I accept that it's vague, but that's the nature of the beast, sadly. The question of what size is appropriate for your content is always going to be meaningless without seeing your content and understanding the problem you're trying to solve. It's a bit like asking "what font size should my headings be"? | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:36 | comment | added | bjb568 | @Kit This seems pretty vague… you can make it big, but it depends on content. The question is more vague than this: "what should the width be?", not "what should the max-width be?". The second link is helpful. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:31 | comment | added | Kit Grose | This question seems to be a duplicate of this earlier question. As noted in that issue; it depends on the content. Since you mentioned long-form text content, you should probably also read this question about maximum line-length. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:28 | comment | added | bjb568 | @PatomaS I didn't have anything specific in mind here, but let's assume that it's a has a lot of text, like a blog. Or an SE site. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:24 | comment | added | PatomaS | Your question is a bit too broad and dependant of circumstances, we could say, always use 100% to use al the space, or 80% so you give some room and more space, or 90% but no more that xxx pixels if you are going to do..., etc If you can describe the reason or content of the page, it's easier to narrow down the answer, give as much information as possible. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 6:13 | history | edited | bjb568 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2014 at 5:53 | history | asked | bjb568 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |