Also, let me just clarify that reader will still be able to make text width smaller than 800px by resizing he's browser.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:36 AM, W. Martin Borgert <[email protected]>wrote: > On 2012-03-11 02:12, Kostya Rybnikov wrote: > > I'm trying to get started and read HTML docs and what I can say that it > is > > hard to read in it's current view. So I suggest to improve reading > process > > by adding small change on HTML generation: add style="max-width: 800px; > > margin: 0pt auto;" inside body tag. That would make a huge difference. > > A few years back I would have answered: Let me, the reader, decide > about the text width by resizing my browser window. Nowadays this > does not fit most peoples browsing behaviour anymore. Maximised > windows are more common, esp. on tablets etc. > > It is common understanding for latin alphabets that 66 characters > are very convenient for reading. (No idea about Russian, Arabic, > Chinese...) CSS does to my knowledge not support "66chars" as > width. > > Maybe "66em" is more or less appropriate for text? > What advantages and disadvantages have pixels? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
