websites on 23 inch monitor

Hi guys.

Picked up my samsung P2350 the other day. I love it it was a good price and all. But what good is it a 23 inch monitor if all the websites are not deisgned for that kind of resolutions and i keep having to zoom in with the pinch feature on my laptop to make the text bigger just so i can read it and use the large size? I just dont see the benefit i am getting from the 23 inch monitor. Am i doing something wrong? P.s i am working at 1920 by 1080 right now, the native resolution of this monitor.

 

Text should be easily readable on a 23 inch 1080p monitor. Open a document in Word or Wordpad and set the text to 12 point font. You should easily be able to read the text.

 

Yea i mean i dont have a problem reading it. But when i open a website and the site itself only takes up like a narrow chucnk on the 23 inch monitor that would normally take up an entire 17 inch monitor space, doesnt seem to make a whole lot of sense to have the big monitor if half of it is just white space..

 

Personally I would never go back to a standard 4:3 monitor. 16:9's are amazing for multitasking, and just plain computing in general. If you wanted a monitor that would be best for a single webpage at a time you should have gone for a 4:3 display ration, not 16:9

 

16:10>16:9 for everything except games and movies. And for games its preference.

 

It's a combination of higher resolution + 16:9 aspect ratio.

Most 17" monitors are 5:4/4:3 @ 1280x1024.

 

Please not another aspect ratio flamewar. Take that to the other thread, and repeat your arguments ad nauseum.

Websites will show up as they are coded. There are a lot of websites out there that are poorly coded by people who shouldn't be making websites. In that case, yes, there's going to be a lot of whitespace.

 

I was not trying to start a flamewar. As you stated, there are threads for that. I was simply trying to convey that websites are almost always still coded for proper display on only 1024x768 pixels. It allows for more coherent display cross platform and across a lot of mobile devices (ex: iPad).

 

OP what if you lower the resolution? Although non-native resolution can produce bad images, just give it a shot and see whether it improves your web surfing experience.

Another thing to try, certain web browsers will stick to a certain zoom level until you unzoom it. Try that features. I think firefox has the feature for sure.

 

do you think websites will be coded for 16:9, 1920 by 1080 resolution anytime soon?

 

Nope. At least not for a LONG time. But in the tech world that could only be a few years.

 

RATS! maybe i should have waited for a few years until i purchased a 23 inch monitor. Since most of time is spent on websites, it sucks not taking advantage of the 23 inch monitor in that regard

 

For pure web browsing, I think it was a Dell or HP, but anyways it was a widescreen monitor that flipped 90 degrees. It was the most awesome thing ever, I just wish I had gotten it. It would have let you see most web-pages in their entirety flipped like that, with no scrolling.

EDIT: Here it is... It's HP.

 

He wasn't referring to you.

 

OP, simply find a way to rotate the display, as H.A.L. 9000 suggested a couple posts back. I have a brand-spanking new Dell Studio XPS 1647 and I still use a 17" 1280x1024 LCD for web viewing. Unless I'm at home, that is, like now, and using just my laptop. ..er.. Anyway, rotate it!!!