From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dexen deVries To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:36:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/3.0.0-rc6-l34+; KDE/4.5.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110712131806.250ce587@lahti.ethans.dre.am> In-Reply-To: <20110712131806.250ce587@lahti.ethans.dre.am> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201107121436.17084.dexen.devries@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] interesting(?) widgets idea Topicbox-Message-UUID: ff91e0b8-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tuesday 12 of July 2011 14:18:06 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > MARGINS! Why is it all the computer nerds are obsessed with eradicating m= argins? ((snip)) surely you're joking, mr. feynman? @_@ or are you actually sitting on an ivory tower made of 10MPix displays? as long as we suffer the 1...2MPix displays, we are forced to save every an= d each pixel. paper is 300DPI (practically, because that's average human vision at reason= able distance). we need 300DPI displays, of some 17...22 inch size, on ever= y desk and in every device to be able to commit to margins=20 the day i get >10MPix i'll be the first in line to follow your advice and g= et some margins. on an unrelated note, it seems to me websites with large horizontal margins= are synonymous with bullet-point engineering and little to no useful conte= nt. =2D-=20 dexen deVries [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] =46or example, if the first thing in the file is: an XML parser will recognize that the document is stored in the traditional= ROT13 encoding. (( Joe English, http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/faq-not.txt ))