Speaking of computers, and interfaces, and ergonomics, brings me to a
question.
How many of you members of this list have screens that limit you to 79
or 80 characters in width?
I know on my Apple ][ and my original Macintosh Plus, that was the
screen width. As such, mail programs and word processing software
defaulted to a 79 column line wrap to prevent the ugliness of having
sentences disappear off the right hand side of the viewing space.
That was 30 years ago, and I seriously doubt anyone here is still
constrained by such mechanical bounds.
In this age of wide screens, large screens, variable text sizes, and
non-monospaced fonts, I'm curious as to why so many of the URLs I see
posted are wrapped, for one thing, and not maintained after that wrap
as a link?
I present that this is a result of settings set once, or by default,
that impose these limitations without need or reason.
How about we all take a look at what we've got, and free the wrap to
it's modern equivalent, the window size dictated wrap.
Thank you
On Oct 2, 2009, at 13:27 , Larry Colen wrote:
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:15:56PM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote:
On Oct 2, 2009, at 11:24 , Bob W wrote:
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsof
t-mac-windows
For second place I'd like to submit, from the same article:
"using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981"
Along those lines, I'd say that using Mac is like living in
Singapore. It's just as dictatorial, but at least things work and you
can generally do what you want to.
Joseph McAllister
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http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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