[WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny
Thought I'd share this one with everyone, we received a list of corrections today from one of our clients, and we found a particularly humorous snippet. This correction was given in relation to paragraph line length. It makes it hard for people to read if they have to keep moving their eyes LOL! Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny
Hi Chris This is an important point they have raised - they are looking at peripheral vision. We see a circle of about 6cm on screen in one go - anything larger we have to move our eyes to take in more. This is why newspapers tend to be in columns etc etc. The Zed man has some good writeups on how ~430px (whats the em?) is about the right line length - @ alistapart although where it is I don't know as the search function has disappeared from that site. Cheers James Chris Blown wrote: Thought I'd share this one with everyone, we received a list of corrections today from one of our clients, and we found a particularly humorous snippet. This correction was given in relation to paragraph line length. It makes it hard for people to read if they have to keep moving their eyes LOL! Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny
Of course James, I know that for sure, just thought it was a funny way of putting it.. the paragraph is under 500px wide anyway I've tried to read without moving my eyes and its pretty hard.. ;) Chris On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:23, James Ellis wrote: Hi Chris This is an important point they have raised - they are looking at peripheral vision. We see a circle of about 6cm on screen in one go - anything larger we have to move our eyes to take in more. This is why newspapers tend to be in columns etc etc. The Zed man has some good writeups on how ~430px (whats the em?) is about the right line length - @ alistapart although where it is I don't know as the search function has disappeared from that site. Cheers James Chris Blown wrote: Thought I'd share this one with everyone, we received a list of corrections today from one of our clients, and we found a particularly humorous snippet. This correction was given in relation to paragraph line length. It makes it hard for people to read if they have to keep moving their eyes LOL! Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny
James, Here is some info on ideal line length: The ideal line length for text layout is based on the the physiology of the human eye... At normal reading distance the arc of the visual field is only a few inches - about the width of a well-designed column of text, or about 12 words per line. http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/em/ The question of what is 430px in ems will depend on the users browser font size. In CSS, an em is a relative measure of length that inherits size information from parent elements. If the parent element is the BODY then the size of the element is actually determined by the user's browser font settings. So, in a default Internet Explorer install (where the default font size is 16px), 1em will be 16px. If the user has the default font settings mentioned above, then 430px will be around 26-27ems. If a user increases their browser font size to say 24px, 430px will be about 18ems. Russ The Zed man has some good writeups on how ~430px (whats the em?) is about the right line length - @ alistapart although where it is I don't know as the search function has disappeared from that site. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny
Hi Chris I thought that was really really funny and so did everyone else in the office. in fact its going to join the other quotes I have printed out and stuck on the wall that we read when we need to raise a smile in times of stress. Jackie Reid Mock Orange Web Site Development 1st Floor 92 Victoria Street MACKAY Q 4740 Ph: 07 4953 4035 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Chris Blown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Friday Afternoon Funny Of course James, I know that for sure, just thought it was a funny way of putting it.. the paragraph is under 500px wide anyway I've tried to read without moving my eyes and its pretty hard.. ;) Chris On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:23, James Ellis wrote: Hi Chris This is an important point they have raised - they are looking at peripheral vision. We see a circle of about 6cm on screen in one go - anything larger we have to move our eyes to take in more. This is why newspapers tend to be in columns etc etc. The Zed man has some good writeups on how ~430px (whats the em?) is about the right line length - @ alistapart although where it is I don't know as the search function has disappeared from that site. Cheers James Chris Blown wrote: Thought I'd share this one with everyone, we received a list of corrections today from one of our clients, and we found a particularly humorous snippet. This correction was given in relation to paragraph line length. It makes it hard for people to read if they have to keep moving their eyes LOL! Cheers Chris Blown * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ * * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *
