From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 26 00:21:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06691 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 00:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06685 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 00:21:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (Chuck@dialB01.aei.ca [206.123.6.85]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA28619; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 03:21:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3542E02E.E0595D58@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 03:20:14 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WIDTH=600 again! References: <3542C9CE.269ED5A8@aei.ca> <19980426163815.54388@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > 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*- > Well, width=600 is now used evrywhere "Several of my friends have windows only 30 characters wide" several??? How many ;-) Hey, put a blue "handicapped"-logo on the FreeBSD.org! I'm not sure its that in english but... hehe joke Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.5 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message