Am 28.02.2004 um 19:57 schrieb Darian Lanx:
Max Horn wrote:First off, the fixed width part of the custom CSS for the legal.php was the least problem with it. What annoyed me most was the ugly font, which didn't fit in at all with the rest of the page.
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It was intended for legal.php NOT to span the whole page for a very simple reason. When reading a lot of text online the eye tires very quickly, because the distance it has to travel is significantly higher than that which it travels when reading a print publication. The optimal value is aroun 360-400 pixels (see the web for ressources to assure you that this is correct).
Since this is a legal document and those who are interested in reading it are more interested in its content than its look, I would very much appreciate if we could revert it back to the old look, if at all possible? I do not wish their eyes to tired before they have read the whole document and understood it.
I am aware that if you span text to wide, it becomes hard to read. That's one of the many reasons why newspapers and magazines use column layouts.
However, if we think that this is a problem for our site, we should apply it everywhere. Saying that our legal.php page needs extra care makes no sense to me. Anybody who wants to follow law and read the legal text can easily do now, too - if the text is "hard to read" just resize the window, and/or zoom, and/or print it. If somebody violates our legalese and then comes up with the excuse "the text was hard to read because my browser windows was so wide, so I ignored the text" -- well, the judge will first laugh into the face of that idiot and then immediately dismiss him :-)
IMO, the part which helps a lot to make the page more readable is increased word spacing. I don't think the fixed width is needed; but if you insist on it, we can re-add it. However I am very much opposed of changing the rest (esp. the font, and the use of the oblique attribute) back to what they were. If you think we should use a serif font for the legal text because it is more readable, well, I don't really buy that argument either. I.e. while I generally agree that it is true, I just don't see why that means we have to change our legal.php page. The text is very much well readable as it is, that's my impression at least. But I could be convinced if we use a stretched, obliqueized Times New Roman right next to Verdana and Trebuchet MS...
Finally, as you say yourself, people who look at legal.php are more interested in reading the content than how it looks. I can reverse that argument - I found the old version extremely irritating and unreadable, because it's shear ugliness made my vision spin :-)
Cheers,
Max
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