A wide-screen view for NetNewsWire. I’ve been using it and loving it. I think this idea for a column view has promise as well.
Now for a bunch of baseball links…
Quoth the Raven, McLemore?
Aaron Gleeman looks at Johan Santana’s production so far this year. I picked up Santana on my fantasy baseball team and he is one of the big reasons I’ve jumped out to a lead in the second half of the season. With him and Schilling (and a semi-healthy Pedro), I’ve gained 5 points in strikeouts (from 3 to 8, of 10 possible). I think Santana will be one of my keepers this year.
Eisenberg compares Abreu and Sexson and wonders why Sexon has more Runs and RBIs (total and as a percentage of his team’s total) while playing for a poorer offenseive team. My answer, teams can aford to pitch to Sexson more when they already have a 5 run lead over the Brewers. Not matter what we’ve heard about OBP being more important than SLG, I think SLG does more to directly contribute to runs.
The Batter’s Box has a great interview with Blue Jays GM JP Riccardi.
The widescreen and column views for NNW you refer to remind me of Bradsoft’s FeedDemon for Windows. After installing that on my wife’s 1024×768 notebook PC my first impression was that it begged for more horizontal pixels. While I’d prefer the wide-column interface style for “feed reader” programs so far NNW’s Combined View seems the most reasonable compromise of both horizontal and vertical pixel space on my 1024×768 iBook display.
Outlook has burdened us with the horizonatal/vertical 3-pane view and it is a horrible layout for reading.
There is a reason newspapers are laid out in lots of skinny columns – it’s easier to read! The eye does not have to travel as far and doesn’t lose what line it’s on, very significant differences.
I keep my NNW window pretty small, it would fit just fine on 1024×768 and I can tell you the readability factor since I switched is really noticeable.
As it is, more and more applications force you to read content in a wide, squat window. It irks me.
I’d never touched Outlook until last year when I tinkered with it a bit while helping my brother with a PC/Windows upgrade last year. *shudder*
What you wrote about newspapers sounds like the comment on Amar Sagoo’s Tofu “column view” text reader page , which I noticed while downloading it after I reading your comment here. Still too early to tell if/when I’ll use it. It’s an interesting idea and I’m surprised to never have seen an option in any e-mail client (for example) for viewing text that way. Of course a newspaper is a larger, portrait mode medium than the typical landscape mode computer display.
My Combined View NNW window occupies most of a CodeTek Virtual Desktop desktop and I’m getting used to the expand/collapse keyboard shortcuts. I’ve noticed that if the headlines window is too narrow then images are more likely to be horizontally truncated, forcing me to resize the window or open the item in the browser.
I’ve long had a distaste for overly wide text columns/windows.
Flexible Width DesignsMatt comments on the apparent death of flexible width designs. Flexible width designs seem to work well in web applications (tasks for example), but on my web site I’ve chosen to use a fixed width.
Frankly, the biggest knock I have against flexi…