CSS abuse

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> 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 (have anybody seen a newspaper which uses
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
optimum should be about 60 characters or little above. The
value chosen for the FAQ works pretty well, the line have a
reasonable wrapping behavior.

pi