Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
> […] ISTM that many designers do mainly think about mobile devices with
> small screens when doing responsive design, but they forget large screens,
> and don't optimize for these. For instance, I don't want to read lines
> with 100 characters and even more, but would rather see the text separated
> into multiple columns.
Multiple columns (newspaper layout) can make sense if the text is so
arranged that there is no vertical scrolling and column is not too high.
Otherwise I find that they make reading harder (instead of easier; consider
the ways the eye, and maybe the hand, would have to make from the bottom of
one column to the top of the next one), and I do not think that is a fitting
layout for a Web document.
It should also be noted that the corresponding “column-*” CSS properties are
not yet fully supported; you would need to use vendor prefixes like
“-webkit-” to achieve this, and a LESS/SASS(-like) solution to maintain it.
Shorter text lines, which can improve readability, do not necessitate
multiple columns, just a fixed width (in relative units of length, like
“ex”, if possible). See the paragraphs in <
http://PointedEars.de/es-matrix>
for an example of that (I have not optimized this for mobile devices yet).
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