On larger displays, reading long lines of content would give a bad UX. For instance, on a 22”, 27” or 32” monitor, the lines of content would be too loooooong…
Please offer optional newspaper columns for easy reading with a spinner/dropdown or pill buttons in the UI to choose number of columns to split the content (traditional newspapers used newspaper columns for decades knowing the UX factor).
On larger displays, reading long lines of content would give a bad UX. For instance, on a 22”, 27” or 32” monitor, the lines of content would be too loooooong…
Please offer optional newspaper columns for easy reading with a spinner/dropdown or pill buttons in the UI to choose number of columns to split the content (traditional newspapers used newspaper columns for decades knowing the UX factor).
Desktop only columns: 1 2 3 4 5 pill buttons (default: 3)
Tablet only columns: 1 2 3 pill buttons (default: 2)
Mobile Phones: No columns choice
Remember user’s choice across page loads.
CSS:
column-width: ...; column-count: 3; column-gap: 20px; column-rule-width: 1px; column-rule-color: #444; column-rule-style: dotted;
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