User blog comment:Undead.exe/Breakpoint 0, Typography 0/@comment-4714517-20150519172742/@comment-5454372-20150520184307

I'm guessing what you were originally expecting was the following below; I'll explain why I didn't do that:



In the screenshot here, the local navbar is hanging completely off the edge. Also notice that the wordmark for Superpowers wiki is now stuck right against where the article space ends and the background wallpaper begins.

The white borders were what stopped those two anomalies from happening.

Another issue of note is how close the body text is to the left edge of the page -- it can get quite distracting because there doesn't appear to be enough spacing around the words to allow for clear reading.

Having said that last point, I'm looking at the page layout again and thinking that there's also an issue with symmetry -- the overall spacing of elements around the text just looks off-balanced with how there's so much open space against the left edge, but almost none against the right where it leans on the modules.

I think that's what was actually bothering most of you guys who mentioned the borders being a problem. In some wayss, I'm almost inclined to say losing the borders is indeed better for the body text itself since it makes the white spacing more balanced on its immediate left and right (but again, we'd have the problems above).

That's probably going to require a redesign moreso than fix to get around -- I don't think the default dimensions in either version of Oasis did it too well.