CSS abuse

[Jeff Kinz]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:56:33AM +0200, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> >I don't understand.  How does keeping the text a constant width increase
> >readability?  
> 
> That is what centuries of typesetting showed. Long lines are
> very hard to read 

Yes for books....  We are not using books here.

By using fixed text width you destroy the inherent flexibility
of the browser to be arranged in the fashion that meets the needs of the
READER, which is the whole point of using browsers and HTML in the first
place.  

With that arrangement I cannot usefully put my browser in the top haf of my
sacreen and work in the lower half while reading the information.

Or make it tall and narrow on the left half to read while I work on the right.

Since there is no way to turn off style sheets in Phoenix I can't turn off
the style either.

The new format works for all situations including allowing me to size my
window to have lines only 60 chars wide for "optimal perusal".

Your version allows only that version.  Having all ways to do it
available is the better way.


> paper width and not much smaller columns? BTW: Major web
> sites often limit the width as well, but to pixels which
> does not give as good results as relative sizes.). The
Darn right and those sights really suck on my 1800 pixel wide
screen.

> optimum should be about 60 characters or little above. The
> value chosen for the FAQ works pretty well
But only for one arrangement.  Otherwise its just as bad
as those "major web sites" mentioned above.


I think this horse is dead now. :-)


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