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Discussion on: 100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere

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BrandonKMLee

A major criticism of the "limited width" design (Medium, Substack etc.) are that some people are annoyed that it is a waste of space. A more innovative idea would be to have two parallel columns that allows one to waste less space whilst scrolling, similar to old newspapers. However it seemed that nobody has executed the ideas yet.

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swyx

if you can find simple pure css solutions for two-column layouts that dont suck i'd be happy to help you publicize it

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trailrun80 • Edited

Would this be good enough for you?
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

And, if you require more control over layout, Grid is always an option

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swyx

yeah i think that looks good statically but is not a good experience for arbitrarily long documents