Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:38:15 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WIDTH=600 again! Message-ID: <19980426163815.54388@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3542C9CE.269ED5A8@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 01:44:46AM -0400 References: <3542C9CE.269ED5A8@aei.ca>
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On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 01:44:46AM -0400, Malartre wrote:
>
> I was explaning why a sentence with 30 words where not good: the human
> is an animal
> who normaly read book. Open any book, there is no more than 8-14 words
> for each
> sentence.
It's also nice if all of the lines are approximately the same length :-)
> Most of the professionnal page are made with a WIDTH=600
Well, IMHO it is not up to a web page to force screen width at all, and
certainly not simply to stay in keeping with some trendy habit. One of
the advantages of HTML is that it is platform independent and device
independent. Any attempted width restriction is inappropriate. Several of
my friends have windows only 30 characters wide because their eyesight
requires very large text. If you believe the radio today, soon we'll be
using our wrist watches to read web pages :-)
HTML simply describes the structure of the content. It is up to the
recipient to decide how that content can be displayed on their equipment.
Yes, thanks, I already know I have extreme views on this :-) So do the
standards. It is up to each person to first understand exactly what it is
that they are producing, and then identify any rules they can justify
bending for a particular purpose. Do that and there should be no problem.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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