Comments on: ⇥ TAB’s new layout

By: Daniel Hahler

Daniel Hahler — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:21:18 +0000

Nice ideas in there, but with JavaScript disabled (using NoScript), the content does not show up at all – only the comments are visible.

By: Ivo

Ivo — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:44:06 +0000

I like the idea, but the columns are too narrow. I need to adjust my eyes to the next line every 4 or 5 words, which is too tiresome. I lost interest in reading the article before the end of the second column because of this. Also it has a bug on some articles where lines get cut in half (sent you a screenshot by email).

Agree with the comment that the animation is confusing, it appears to scroll down but you have to continue on the left.

By: Chuck Burgess

Chuck Burgess — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:00:31 +0000

I love the new layout… absolutely love it. It seems to be perfect for good screen usage on widescreen in particular.

However, the paging isn’t quite working for me in FF3.5. No matter how large or small I make my browser window, which therefore causes a different number of page buttons to be available, I cannot see the end of your article. The farthest I’ve been able to read is about three sentences into the “Limitations” section.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:43:21 +0000

Like the column layout in general. But all the hyphenation is slowing down reading a bit.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:09:03 +0000

Yeah, gotta say, this will pretty much guarantee I only read your blog via an RSS reader.

By: Rob...

Rob... — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:30 +0000

Love the column layout. Hate the “pages”.

Regards,

Rob…

By: Randell

Randell — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:31:21 +0000

Interesting layout.

Although IMHO, it makes reading slightly slower because there can only be so much words that you can fit in a row within a column compared to a single column layout where you can glide through a lot of words in a row before going through the next line or going up again to read the next column.

Also, having just one column and scrolling down the page as you read allows for less eye movement – less stress and faster reading.

I guess the layout is not meant for long reading.

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By: Lig

Lig — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:24:55 +0000

couple of opinions:
1) generally speaking like the look though the multiple columns kind threw me off for a bit
2) Love the font
3) hate the transitions between pages. I am a reader so when I finish a “page” and move to the next my eyes automatically follow the last words I read so I get dizzy. Very jaring.
4) you have no next button. While not a huge deal it means I have to keep track of what page I am on rather then just going to the next one.

Lig

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By: Jani Hartikainen

Jani Hartikainen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:16:20 +0000

While I like the basic concept…

- Broken in Opera
- The paging is weird, especially if you have a small window. I’d like to just be able to scroll down when I read stuff
- The paging is confusing. I’m reading say the 3rd, rightmost block, when I change the page I need to continue from the leftmost. However, the animation looks like the block just continues down.

I also get a feeling this doesn’t really work very well for web. It felt weird reading sideways. It was better in Chrome where it worked properly, and the blocks were higher – so short blocks don’t seem to work very well.

With a little polish this might actually work okay, but I’m still not sure if I’d put this on my own blog =)

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By: Bernhard H.

Bernhard H. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:37:23 +0000

A nice idea. I still don’t do a lot of fullscreen browsing though, so it won’t really be useful for me.

Bug report: If you resize the browser window, some content is no longer visible.

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