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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nuno Silva Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:53:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <1023j28$3oc57$2@dont-email.me> References: <20250605082126.00002cc7@gmail.com> <101sj3q$1lbj2$1@dont-email.me> <101umkk$27k2a$14@dont-email.me> <101uv2j$2aqs7$2@dont-email.me> <1021d5a$31un5$2@dont-email.me> <1023063$3k3he$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:53:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4d0ac8756829c115d8aa9da8b703d6f3"; logging-data="3944615"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/kZ7sSrfnVjz5cx4ROyz1w" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uOIrsRSt4l+Ba4ADYXFZ4EygPis= On 2025-06-08, Rich wrote: > Borax Man wrote: [...] >> Open up many webpages and notice how much blank space is on the >> sides. I've just gone to news.com.au, and HALF the screen is just >> blank white space. > > I just went to news.com.au, and only half of my one wide-screen monitor > is occupied by the Firefox window showing news.com.au. The rest of the > wide screen shows two other Firefox windows that are presently 'behind' > the one displaying news.com.au. > > Now, in the news.com.au window, the HTML/CSS of news.com.au is itself > only using about 3/4 of the width of the window it has available, with > about a 1/4 width margin of whitespace on the right of the story slugs. > So yes, news.com.au is not trying to fill out the space they are given. > So whomever their "designer" was is at fault here. That may be the designer understanding that beyond a point, using *horizontal* space is a bad idea, unless they have something that actually goes well with that. >> Mobiles are portrait, heavily so, desktops widescreen, heavily so, so >> this results in just a mismatch. > > And HTML is designed to adapt to whatever viewing portal it has > available. That is if it were not for "designers" who have a "vision" > of how things should look "just so", and assume that everyone shares > their "vision" and then proceed to force HTML to bend to their > "vision". HTML should never have evolved into the mess where sites prioritize "looks the same everywhere" and where Google actively boosts sites which *add* code to tell Google's browsers "it's okay to handle this as HTML and 'zoom' as you see fit". (The end result was that ad-ridden content scrappers ended up boosted... and nowadays, with or without they intentionally screwing search results for "more engagement", Google Web Search still seems to prioritize useless javascript-ridden or https-enforcing websites over more usable options.) -- Nuno Silva