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/ *****************************************************
