Erik, glad you like it, I pushed everyone to be a little radical, in order to start discussion, and start people thinking about things like this. Time permitting I want Jon to experiment with http://simplefocus.com/flowtype/ for article pages. We have some ideas about how to take related content and highlight it in the new sidebar created by the narrower margin. You can get some idea of what that would look like from the search mockup here http://invis.io/6ULU31BK 

Also Insane seems to be pretty harsh as the narrower measure is based on much of the same research, and best practices as the narrower measure for Flow. Imagine a likely scenario, such as article talk where flow and an article might benefit from being side by side in a 2 column layout.  

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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:

This is neat, but the screen width change feels a little insane.
MediaWiki content pages tend to be built with the assumption that
there's lots of room to float objects alongside the content, so when
you suddenly limit the available width to 715px, those pages (with
infoboxes or whatever) start to look crappy.

This is of course why MobileFrontend reformats a lot of this content,
and if we want to be smarter about screen width on the desktop, then I
think we have to be a _lot_ smarter about how content is displayed
than just hardcoding a limit.

Beyond that I love the changes and would keep it enabled as a user.

Erik

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As Jared and I hinted at previously, we're about to launch a new iteration
> on the "typography refresh" beta feature for Vector users.
>
> You can find all the details about what we've changed at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh
>
> Note: this won't go live to all wikis until this Thursday. You can see some
> of the latest changes by using the beta on mediawiki.org, but we're actually
> making a few final tweaks as we speak this afternoon. For a comprehensive
> list of what will change, see the link I posted above.
>
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