From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Apr 25 23:38:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA29128 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 23:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29123 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 23:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA19128; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:38:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980426163815.54388@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:38:15 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Malartre Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WIDTH=600 again! References: <3542C9CE.269ED5A8@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <3542C9CE.269ED5A8@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 01:44:46AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message