On 1/30/13 1:41 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
A couple of screenshots to save people the effort:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-normal.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/eiger-three-columns-more.png
Looking at these, it's remarkable that we've put up with such a bad
layout for wide screens for so long. I mean, seriously - that
eiger-normal.png looks *awful*. The text is far too wide to read
comfortably, and then there's this huge white space next to the
contents box.
And all with a tiny amount of CSS. Great job, Magnus!
I like it as well. Actually, I recall a previous version from Magnus
that was sort of like this which I also liked; am I imagining that?
The main issue with the present layout, imo, is that wrapping text
around images produces clutter for no real gain when pages are so wide.
I do like wrapping text around images on narrower pages, such as a
typical book, or narrower portrait-format screens. In those cases, the
alternatives feel inferior to me. Narrow columns really don't work for
me: I use the IEEE and ACM 2-column article formats regularly in my day
job and do not find them either aesthetically pleasing or particularly
readable. And using a wider column without wrapping results in the image
taking up the whole page for a certain amount of the vertical space,
which is only sensible if it's a major object of discussion which should
narratively fit into the text, rather than a side illustration.
But at larger widths, you can put the side illustrations out in the
margin, because there is tons of space.
-Mark
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