On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 07:21:24PM +0900, Pontus Stenetorp wrote: > On Sat 12 Aug 2023, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > To me, it looks just "different" rather than particularly better > > (except on mobile browsers, where I find the redesigned one a bit worse > > by having the links hidden away down the bottom. Scrolling to read the > > text on mobile browsers with the existing version is a bit of a > > nuisance, but so is scrolling to access the links in this rework). > > > > And "different" is a bit of a problem, there are at least 7 associated > > websites which intentionally have the same basic design, which now > > no longer match up. > > > > (I found v1 a lot worse than the existing one, mostly due to overriding > > browser default font/colour choices and disabling underlining for links). > > As someone using the current website both on desktop and phone, the > only thing that has ever sprung to mind as a possible improvement would > be to constrain the line length, as I often have to tighten the window a > bit (interestingly, a good line length tends to be around 80 > characters [1] and where have we heard that number before?). On > man.openbsd.org there is a fixed line length, just that it is a tiny > bit too wide for reading comfort. >
I have always found that 72 characters is a bit better than 80. In CSS, that would be 72ch. Versus 80ch. I often adjust the width of the window my browser is in to control that width, assuming the website doesn't fight me and force horizontal scrolling. I have key bindings on fvwm2/3 to do that. But definitely add the viewport to the head. Nothing bad can happen with that and FWIW, it bumps up OpenBSD in many searching algorithms (assuming that that is desirable). -- Chris Bennett
