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<blockquote data-quote="Jaygray" data-source="post: 631745" data-attributes="member: 50033">This will always be a problem.&nbsp; Widescreens look cool and are great for watching movies, but are the most impractical computer screen ever thought of.&nbsp; Computer screens (and websites) are primarily used to view text.&nbsp; Text is primarily printed on paper.&nbsp; And most things on paper are viewed in portrait format.&nbsp; A single page from a typical book is taller than it is wide.&nbsp; The lined notebook paper kids use in school is taller than it is wide.&nbsp; Although we read lines of text from left to right, we are accustomed to reading pages from top to bottom.&nbsp; And long single lines of text are especially hard to read.&nbsp; That's why Bibles, newpapers, and magazines always use multiple columns on a page.&nbsp; What we really need to do is throw away all our books and go back to reading everything off scrolls.&nbsp; This would retrain everyone's minds to view text in a widescreen format and then the dimensions of the computer screen will once again make sense.&nbsp; ;D</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jaygray, post: 631745, member: 50033"] This will always be a problem. Widescreens look cool and are great for watching movies, but are the most impractical computer screen ever thought of. Computer screens (and websites) are primarily used to view text. Text is primarily printed on paper. And most things on paper are viewed in portrait format. A single page from a typical book is taller than it is wide. The lined notebook paper kids use in school is taller than it is wide. Although we read lines of text from left to right, we are accustomed to reading pages from top to bottom. And long single lines of text are especially hard to read. That's why Bibles, newpapers, and magazines always use multiple columns on a page. What we really need to do is throw away all our books and go back to reading everything off scrolls. This would retrain everyone's minds to view text in a widescreen format and then the dimensions of the computer screen will once again make sense. ;D [/QUOTE]

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