On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:35:38PM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: > 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'm afraid that when I ssh into my home system on my treo, the line length is even less than that. > > 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. Or for that matter the number of characters you can get on a line of typewritten text. > > 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. Cue the old saw about how the size of the space shuttle was influenced by the width of a horses ass. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
