That, too, was a reckless arrogance on the part of designers who were blessed with fast both machines and broadband.Īnyone who’s ever developed serious software for public both personal and business use knows to always design for the lowest common denominator. We saw the same thing in the days when 768Kbps and 1.5Mbps broadband was becoming more common, yet the vast majority of Internet users out there were still using 56Kbps dial-up (which, of course, was a myth the actual fastest that anywone could typically dial-in was around 38Kbps to 48Kbps) and so if the site designer top-loaded the site with flash and bit-heavy graphics, the site was basically unusable by the vast majority of Internet users. It is an arrogance - and a reckless one - for website designers to not take that into consideration. …which is all the wider are even many high-end smartphone (and even tablet) displays when in landscape orientation. The very notebook computer on which I’m not typing this has a monitor width of 1280 pixels… Some of these designer have monster monitors that are over 2500 pixels wide yet many - most I dare say - of the visitors to the sites they design have monitors no wider than around 1900 pixels some of them only around 1400 pixels and many still only around 1200 pixels. …but they don’t stop to think that not everyone who visits their site will have monitors as large as do they. The problem is entirely the thoughtlessness - nay, recklessness - of the site designer. Of course, site visitors should not have to do any of these things.
Stylish is also available for Google Chrome. The changes are applied to the web page whenever you load it for as long as you keep Stylish installed and the new style loaded.
If you change the value to 720px, you will notice that the page displays fine now. col-10 eventually which has a size of 772px. (click on the "Pick an element from this page" button in the Developer Tools window for this. In the case of this site, it is the main body area. Either go through the code manually, or use the Inspector to click on the element that is not displayed properly.Open the WordPress Plugin Directory and hit F12 to open Firefox's Developer Tools window.To fix the WordPress Plugin Directory site in Firefox for instance, you would do the following: The downside is that you need to know CSS to make use of it. The issue is elegant, as it won't change the text font size.
You can make permanent changes to most websites with the help of the browser extension Stylish or comparable add-ons. To use it, simply hold down the Shift-key on your keyboard and click on the icon the add-on places in one of the browser toolbars.Ĭhrome users can use the Zoomy extension instead which changes the zoom level based on the size of the browser window and resolution. Note that contents will display smaller as a consequence.įirefox users can install the excellent Zoom Page extension which ships with a "fit to page" option that you can make use of to fit any page to the browser window in just one click. All you have to do is hold down the Ctrl-key on your keyboard and move the mouse wheel up or down to change the zoom level of your browser.Īll modern browsers apply the level only to the domain you are on, and not to other domains and sites that you open.Ī single flick down is usually enough to display the page just fine in your browser of choice. This is without doubt the easiest option.