From: Joseph McAllister
peaking 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
I'm LIKE it set to 72, so why should I change?
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