On Friday 2013-01-04 22:01 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > That being said, in 2013, I'm not convinced limiting to 80 characters on > one line still has much meaning...
I think it absolutely does, because if we pick a number other than 80, we'll end up having to listen to complaints from the people whose editors are wider than that asking for it to be bigger still, etc., etc. I think we should either stick to 80 or have no wrapping at all (meaning that it would be a style violation to wrap a comment anywhere other than at a paragraph break); I prefer sticking to 80. It allows many people to have two code windows side-by-side, and it allows people with poor vision to have large enough fonts, even on a laptop. It also happens to be the default width of many terminal programs, which is convenient. We also might find people writing code on smaller screens. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
