On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:15:27 +0200
"Peter A. Cejchan" <tyap...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > MARGINS! Why is it all the computer nerds are obsessed with eradicating
> margins? Do they actually never try to read anything using
> 
>  i'm not a comp nerd, rathe a biologist, however, and therefore, i like
> simple, yet working designs.... how do you use margins?

Just to stop my eyesight being bothered by the edge of the screen. The edges of 
all my current screens are black, and the text-area bg usually white, so 
there's a lot of contrast there.

> 
>  >  The whole setup ... is pleasant to look at,...
> 
> :-)))
> 
>  > Books have margins.
> ... because they're being printed on paper ;-)   OK, but they have a plain,
> background-colored, non-functional margins ...

I consider them passively functional. :)

> IMHO, as always,
> ++pac

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