Hello Melissa Reese, on Sat, 8 Nov 2003 16:35:04 -0800 (2003-11-09 01:35:04 in .nl) in the message with reference <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote (at least in part):
MR> Hi Rich, MR> On Saturday, November 08, 2003, at 4:08:56 PM PST, you wrote: >> THAT is EXACTLY how (in my feeble little mind) it SHOULD work!!!! If >> you see things that way then I hope others do too, never wrapping >> prematurely, never too long to be viewed (horizontally) on one >> screen. I agree, the user/reader should decide what the optimum reading width is. MR> Eek! :-) I've found that in reading email, a wrap setting of between MR> 70-76 is *very comfortable to read*. Lines much longer than that are MR> less comfortable...for this reason... I can imagine you have your own preferred 'reading width', everyone has. MR> Very long lines force our eyes to make longer jumps back and forth MR> from the end of one line back to the beginning of the next. This can MR> be especially inconvenient if there are more than just a few lines. MR> Personally, I prefer a line length of 70 characters, and so that's how MR> I send all my email (you know...do unto others as I wish they would do MR> unto me :-)). The preferred width comes from some RFC, as someone else mentioned. Now what if I would like to read a meaasage in a width which doesn't match yours? You (or the RFC) are now forcing me to use a width which you may like, but I may not like. Hence, do not hard-wrap lines. Let the end-user decide what s/he likes. Ya, this means not being compliant to RFCs, create a new RFC, and let the end user decide how s/he wants to see it, depending on the user-agant setting like: wrap at xx, soft wrap at window width, as it has been created, ...something else.. In HTML-lingo it's called liquid design. Wrapping adjusts to the end users' browser width. MR> If it is your preference to send such "unwrapped" lines, could you MR> please explain to me your reasoning? In any event, please don't worry MR> about "wasting" *my* screen real estate by wrapping your lines before MR> the end of the window...I won't mind in the least (and I'm sure my MR> computer doesn't care either). :-) See above. It will be up to you to set your preferences. What else can you wish for? -- Kind regards, Peter Ouwehand E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - Created the above using A program which insists to be : The Bat! V2.01.26 An OS which insists to be : Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
