Peter Ouwehand, [PO] wrote: PO> The preferred width comes from some RFC, as someone else mentioned. PO> Now what if I would like to read a meaasage in a width which doesn't PO> match yours? You (or the RFC) are now forcing me to use a width PO> which you may like, but I may not like.
I don't know if you're hypothesizing or it is that you really have a problem or do not like reading text wrapped to 76 characters. Be that as it may, one can never hope to please everyone. When you're writing to a single individual and you do know their preference, then fine, post to them the way they like. When posting to a discussion list or when sending e-mail to those whose preference you aren't familiar with, you're far less likely to create problems by sending the text wrapped, and an optimum limit has been defined. I've just given a VERY practical reason why I don't size the window I read messages from, according to the text wrap limit I prefer. I size it according to the message list above which needs a wide window to display all columns. PO> Hence, do not hard-wrap lines. Bad idea unless you specifically know your other party's preference. PO> Let the end-user decide what s/he likes. Ya, this means not being PO> compliant to RFCs, create a new RFC, and let the end user decide how PO> s/he wants to see it, depending on the user-agant setting like: wrap PO> at xx, soft wrap at window width, as it has been created, PO> ...something else.. You need to see how others work and configure their window widths. Then run a survey to see which method creates less problems. I'm one of those who intensely dislikes unwrapped lines in e-mail. Melissa is another. Marck is another. I'm sure there are many others. PO> In HTML-lingo it's called liquid design. Wrapping adjusts to the end PO> users' browser width. Many web pages depart from that liquid design. Only the simply put together ones still do that. Many, if not most, well developed sites hardwrap text at a reasonable width for comfortable reading. -- -= allie_M =- | List Moderator PGPKeys: http://www.ac-martin.com/pgpkeys.html ____________________________________ Using TB! v2.01.26 on WinXP Pro (SP1)
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