[...] > > 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? >
Probably mainly a result of netiquette, a hangover from the days of 80-character screens, which itself was a hangover from punch cards. But, see below [...] > > 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. > That's a bad idea. Readability is severely reduced when the lines are too long - it's why newspapers and magazines are printed in columns. Optimum readability is about 40-70 characters per line. The real problem is that web designers, especially automatic ones, make their urls unnecessarily long. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
