On 3/13/10 1:56 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 01:36:44PM -0700, Josh Williams wrote:
I'm in the camp that it's better to set a maximum width because I
think it's harder to read long strings of text.
If you really want to do this (I still wouldn't like it), please at
least base it on font size (em). Using pixel sizes will cause breakage
for users of high resolution (DPI) screens and visually impaired users
who have significantly increased the font size.
If we do limit the width, I'll definitely use ems.
Anyway, I'm not opposed to having it set at 100% width if you think
most of the wiki users would prefer that.
The question is not just what the majority prefers, but also what the
drawbacks are for the minority.
That's true, but I think the drawbacks are small for either case. Here
are our two options, the problems I see, and typical responses to those
problems.
1. Restrict the width to 62.5 em (roughly 1000px for people viewing at
normal font size 16px)
* Argument: this will restrict people with large displays from using
all of their window to fill the text.
* Response: Most contemporary sites are fixed width and set around
1000px, so those users are used to interacting with similar websites.
2. Don't restrict the width.
* Argument: Causes hard to read text when the browser is in full
screen mode or when taking up a large portion of the screen.
* Response: Make the browser window smaller or zoom the page.
Are there any other drawbacks that I'm missing? I don't really think
this is just a decision I should make arbitrarily, so any thoughts on
this would be appreciated.
That being said, thanks for working on a new style! I too would love a
wiki that looks "sweeter" (i.e. more like the Sugar UI).
CU Sascha
No problem! Thanks for the feedback!
Josh
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