On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Dino Morelli <d...@ui3.info> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Mark Lentczner wrote: >> One thing I haven't seen anyone else comment on is the width of the new >> docs. I have a large (26") monitor and use the browser full-screen (with >> xmonad, so even more screen space). When I load these pages, particularly >> the non-frame one, something like 50% of my screen real-estate is empty >> whitespace on either side of the doc content. There is also wasted space >> in the frames version, just a little less of it. I wish the docs were >> using that space like the current Haddock does. Is the plan to use a >> fixed width like this? > > Yes. There's research suggesting that the line length should be between 65 > and 75 characters per line. > http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/42/text_length.htm >
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp "This study examined the effects of line length on reading speed, comprehension, and user satisfaction of online news articles." I completely agree with the case of news articles, but not in the case of Haskell documentation, it's structured differently and different parts such as bold or larger typeface serve as points of reference when reading, in contrast to plain old paragraphs found in a news article. The current layout works very well for me, I don't like the additional whitespace in the proposed version. I feel the colour scheme is a step backwards from what we have already, which offers high visibility. Jeff _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
