On Mar 21, 2012 5:44 AM, "Ned Batchelder" <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: > The best thing to do is to set a max-width in ems, say 50em. This leaves the > text at a reasonable width, but adapts naturally for people with larger fonts.
Please, no, not even this "improved" version of coddling. If you're formatting e.g. a newspaper or a book, by all means (though I still think the user should be given ultimate control -- and I don't mean editing the CSS using the browser's development tools :-). But when reading docs there are all sorts of reasons why I might want to stretch the window to maximum width and nothing's more frustrating than a website that forces clipping, folding or a horizontal scroll bar even when I make the window wide enough. And sometimes I just don't care that much about reading the text, but having more things visible at once (vertically) is worth it. (Can you see why I invented a whitespace-sensitive language? I have a whitespace-sensitive brain. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
