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by yan 1893 days ago
To solve the wide-screen, narrow text problem, I once threw together a demo with a hacked up Chromium/WebKit to create a flowing, multi column view mode that created a long virtual scroll surface and scrolled it like newspaper columns: https://vimeo.com/59463521.

It wasn't super intuitive, but wish a modern browser had this.

2 comments

I'm kinda sure I saw a pre-chromium Opera browser build do this back in like 2010 or so (maybe it was just a mockup), but like you say, it's not super intuitive. And the scrolling feels weird when you have 2-3 columns moving.
This is a nice feature that I often wish every text editor supported natively.