From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: "Axel Beckert" <abe@deuxchevaux.org>,
"David Wales" <daviewales@disroot.org>,
zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: CSS for Zsh website?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:44:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6587c04f-215b-40c0-a7b9-cb92a27bc354@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7ZXPHpaix9yEa-auWniNESPTsbYxSSyronXN7N6Ndu1Nw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, at 7:12 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:31 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@zsh.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, at 5:37 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 12:08:11AM +1100, David Wales wrote:
>> >> max-width: 80ch;
>> >
>> > Please don't artificially restrict the width of text on websites
>>
>> Hard disagree. Legibility decreases with line length.
>
> Soft disagree. Setting width to 80 characters is no more necessary
> than allowing it to be 100% of the viewport. The only time to use
> character widths is with fixed-width fonts. Set margins, not widths.
Agreed! I didn't mean to defend the specific CSS that was proffered.
Frankly, before this thread I didn't know that "ch" was a CSS unit.
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-04 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-02 13:08 David Wales
2022-03-02 14:26 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-03 11:19 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-03-03 22:15 ` David Wales
2022-03-04 13:12 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-03-05 8:47 ` David Wales
2022-03-10 15:37 ` Vincent Lefevre
2022-03-10 16:23 ` Vin Shelton
2022-03-10 16:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2022-03-10 17:17 ` Clinton Bunch
2022-03-10 21:12 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-03-10 21:30 ` Clinton Bunch
2022-03-10 21:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-10 22:43 ` Vin Shelton
2022-03-10 23:26 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-03-10 19:20 ` Vin Shelton
2022-03-03 23:27 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-03-03 22:37 ` Axel Beckert
2022-03-03 23:23 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-03-04 0:12 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-03-04 2:44 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2022-03-04 13:26 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-03-05 6:34 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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