You could put one in landscape (code), and one in portrait (browser, email, etc). that solves some of the width issues, though it might offend one's aesthetic sensibilities. I got over that very quickly when I decided to try it.
Don't you mean portrait for code and landscape for browsing? That's how I thought people with mixed setup were using it.
Not here, web pages are virtually always a lot taller than wide. Putting them on a portrait monitor means much less scrolling.
Fair point but you also miss out on features because of responsive design. For example the sidebar on Facebook disappears when I browse it on a monitor in portrait mode.
I always imagined using dual 27" screens like that too. However, I have found that I prefer to stack a tall-ish browser window and terminal on the portrait monitor and keep 2+ panes of code on the landscape monitor.