<story><title>Redesigning the browser window</title><url>http://blogg.antrop.se/interaktionsdesign/redesigning-the-browser-window/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>beaumartinez</author><text>The real problem isn&apos;t the browser. It&apos;s the screen. Large horizontal 16:9 screens are great for video but poor for text and pages.&lt;p&gt;In similar iOS style, screens should be rotatable and shift their content accordingly.&lt;p&gt;Watching a video? Great, put the screen to horizontal. Browsing the web? Writing a letter? Coding? Put the screen to vertical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masklinn</author><text>&amp;#62; In similar iOS style, screens should be rotatable and shift their content accordingly.&lt;p&gt;I have a 24&quot; rotatable screen.&lt;p&gt;1. The amount of cabling hooked to the screen makes it a pain. The size also makes it unwieldy, and if your desk is anything worse than spotless you&apos;ll likely have to move a lot of crap around before you can rotate the screen without shoving stuff around and on the floor&lt;p&gt;2. A 24+&quot; 16/10 (let alone 16/9) screen is &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; wide, putting it in portrait means you have your nose in the middle of the screen when the screen touches the desk, it requires significant (and uncomfortable) neck movements in the vertical plane&lt;p&gt;i do use smaller screens in portrait mode as &quot;side windows&quot; to the main one, but I would not work with a big widescreen in portrait.&lt;p&gt;And even more so for coding: widescreens let me keep IDE crud (content panes) on the sides out of the main content, and when using a text editor (Emacs) it allows me to view multiple files side by side (or — with follow-mode — multiple sections of the same file).</text></comment>
<story><title>Redesigning the browser window</title><url>http://blogg.antrop.se/interaktionsdesign/redesigning-the-browser-window/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>beaumartinez</author><text>The real problem isn&apos;t the browser. It&apos;s the screen. Large horizontal 16:9 screens are great for video but poor for text and pages.&lt;p&gt;In similar iOS style, screens should be rotatable and shift their content accordingly.&lt;p&gt;Watching a video? Great, put the screen to horizontal. Browsing the web? Writing a letter? Coding? Put the screen to vertical.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alec</author><text>I tried a ~22&quot; screen vertical for a while, primarily for coding, for exactly the same arguments you made.  I switched back because I found I was still only using about as much of the screen as I was when it was vertical - I&apos;m much better about looking side to side than I am up and down - and because I&apos;d rather have two or three windows open side-by-side than one on top and one on bottom.</text></comment>