there's a habit of reducing the width of the text to a quarter of the screen width
This I can understand and support.
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Intermezzo:
First off, if you're having your browser take your whole screen, "you're doing it wrong", aka here is my tip: Assuming 1920x1080px screen resolution, using 2/3 of its width (~1260px) should be enough for the most of the pages, and the remaining 1/3 of your screen you can use for other stuff you need (IRC, chat window, music player, etc.).
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Back to the original point:
The reason why this "small width" is happening is because of readability: extra long lines (anything over 100 characters) are hard to read.
But larger font-sizes would please both general-you (people who want larger width) and general-me (people who want larger font-sizes): I would be able to read the text without zooming in, and the same amount of characters per line would now make lines wider.
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This I can understand and support.
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Intermezzo:
First off, if you're having your browser take your whole screen, "you're doing it wrong", aka here is my tip: Assuming 1920x1080px screen resolution, using 2/3 of its width (~1260px) should be enough for the most of the pages, and the remaining 1/3 of your screen you can use for other stuff you need (IRC, chat window, music player, etc.).
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Back to the original point:
The reason why this "small width" is happening is because of readability: extra long lines (anything over 100 characters) are hard to read.
But larger font-sizes would please both general-you (people who want larger width) and general-me (people who want larger font-sizes): I would be able to read the text without zooming in, and the same amount of characters per line would now make lines wider.