Fix-width layouts are a pet peeve of mine. What's the point of having a large monitor with 1920 or 2048 pixels in the middle, if the content only takes up like 40% of it.
Seriously though - here's what a Wired article looks like on my 24" monitor. Chrome, no zoom.
Text occupies 420px out of 1600; barely over 25% of screen width.
I'm aware reading may be a dying art, and new generations are lacking long attention span, but squashing text into an average of 9 words per line feels infuriating to me, you can downvote me all you want.
My eyes are dangling out of my sockets from going left to right and back and forth three times a second, not to mention constantly having to scroll the page vertically.
I'm not a scientist, though - YMMV of course.
Fix to 2 columns: you cannot control the height, if it goes beyond the screen height, users need to scroll down on the first column, then scroll back to the start of the 2nd column.
Fix to the screen height: you cannot control the width, it it goes beyond the screen, users need to scroll horizontally to read the text. Although this somehow would work, it's really not general behavior on the web to scroll horizontally.
People shouldn't be required to resize their browser window to suit the site - it should adapt. (I'm not suggesting 16pt line of text running the full screen width)
For Github, I use the "Github Wide" Stylus style - I now have a workable diff UI. (ironically, I think it breaks the dashboard layout) - judging by the article, I may not require it soon.
(I wish the "applies to" would persist over updates).
ugh, dashboard starting to look like facebook...
below 1012 pixels and they remove search and anything in navigation for a hamburger button, where there is clearly still enough room for these elements.
at 768 pixels they remove the new repository button.
They should be focusing on their desktop experience. Sure their mobile experience is still fucked, but you'll find that at least 90% of people using github every day are form a PC. Who programs from their phone?
The fucking navigation menu on a browser that big is pretty inexcusable. It's a step back from any coherent design
I’ve notified this is increasingly common now. Super frustrating that I can’t have two windows side-by-side on my laptop and still use the effectively. Despite the fact that it’s about 8-16x the size of a phone screen, it gets reduced to a mobile looking layout.
This kills the productivity.
You got it backwards. More like "Stop fixating on a width and shaping your content in a browser limiting way". They are asking for the removal of viewing restrictions in both cases, no need to pretend like they're at odds.