Question for you.

[andrewducker]

Widescreen monitors are now most definitely in.  But does anyone know _why_?

I can understand them on laptops.  And clearly widescreen TVs are better for films.  But why monitors?

Comments

[andrewducker]

I have massive borders in my LJ friends page setup, because reading more than 6" wide is very hard - I can't track successfully onto the next line.

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

You don't have to run your browser in a maximised window.
That is just a hang over from the days of small screens.
As displays get bigger the applications it is desirable to run full screen are going to become fewer and fewer.

[andrewducker]

But then I end up dragging it round the screen and getting the window set up. Much easier with Windows 7, admittedly.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

You're running Win7 now, right? If so, just drag the browser window off one side of the desktop and it'll snap into a half-screen. That leaves your page margins suitable for LJ (&etc) and leaves the other half of your monitor free for other uses.

-- Steve's running a fairly-elderly 19" 4:3 cube-o-glass monitor right now, so he doesn't use the splitscreen function too much.

PS: I'm thinking of migrating up to a 22" or 26" 16:9 LCD in the future. If I do, I'll definitely use that feature a lot more.

[andrewducker]

I know about that (see further down) - but I use XP at work.