On Mar 21, 2012 12:00 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > 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.
Well, the only thing that's more frustrating than that is having to resize my window to make the text readable, and then *still* having to scroll horizontally for the wide bits, or have to alternate sizes of the window. Just because flowing text paragraphs are set to a moderate max-width, that doesn't mean that code samples, tables, etc. all have to be the *same* max-width, or have any max-width at all. That is, keeping flowing text readable is not incompatible with having arbitrarily-wide code, tables, etc. (Text width is an ergonomic consideration as much as font size and color: too wide in absolute characters, and the eye has to hunt up and down to find where to start reading the next line.)
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