So the AMP page looks great on a mobile device, but am I the only one that thinks we don't have enough emphasis on the desktop side of "mobile-friendly" styling? I'm reading this page on a 24" monitor, and literally 2/3rds of the page is whitespace. Why isn't more of that space being filled with text?
Are you using a maximized browser on a 24" monitor?
That's not what I do, because it doesn't make sense. Text that takes up the entire width of the monitor is either in an unreadably long line, or in unpleasantly large text. There's only so much margin you can handle on either side of the text before it just looks silly. And I don't think multi-column is the way sites should or are going - it interacts poorly with scrolling.
Thus I don't use maximized browser windows on big monitors. I use tree-style tabs, which uses a bunch of horizontal browser space much more productively than big margins, and I cascade my browser window with other windows so I can easily switch windows using the lower left corner of each window. With it occupying the rightmost and tallest position in the cascade, it is further reduced in horizontal size.
tl;dr: Web browsing, being primarily a text medium, doesn't scale up to wider and wider monitors. So don't make the window so wide.
hey would you mind linking me? just unsure if you're talking about the landing page or the how-to page i work for the amp team and would love to fix it and give our marketing site some love.
Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to reply. To be clear, I was referring to the AMP version of the Guardian page from the parent comment, so that would probably be outside of your domain to fix.
But to show what I'm talking about, here's how the page looks on my desktop in Chrome:
I actually would prefer the page this way while reading a text article. They want to cut down on the sidebars to make the page faster and only load the main content. And making the content wider just makes more difficult to read. I often lose track of the lines.
