[pmontra]

I'd say that resizing windows to make text readable should be normal and using maximized windows on todays large displays makes little sense, but... I was looking at that site myself on a maximized window :-) Why? Because I had other tabs open with developer tools and I needed all the space. So yes, sites should set line length and line spacing appropriately. When we see lot of white space around a column of text we should know that our window is too large. By the way, there are CSS multi column properties to fix that

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Columns...

https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/

It's supported by all browsers. Funnily IE leads the way here, the other browsers require vendor prefixes.

http://caniuse.com/multicolumn

[xjay]

To turn it around; maybe browsers don't utilize space very well?

Imagine if we could divide a tab into regions of sites instead?

Having a maximum line length is the humane thing to do, unless the person has phobias of empty spaces, of course. :>

The links you provided are not for the user, but for the designer. Text, however, is a global means of communication, so it should get better treatment, and care in general. Especially by browsers.