From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: "David Wales" <daviewales@disroot.org>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: CSS for Zsh website?
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2022 01:34:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7d93664-7f56-4c8d-9b8b-02d62c87a002@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220304132616.GC7687@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, at 8:26 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Lawrence Velázquez wrote on Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 21:44:48 -0500:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, at 7:12 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> I'm confused. Didn't you just now post a link that explains why widths
> should be set rather than margins? Quoting from there [with emphasis
> removed]:
>
> There isn’t one margin size that will work for all web pages, but
> the core advice is the same as on the printed page—focus on line
> length.
Sorry, I meant to agree with the notion that a fixed character width
is inappropriate.
--
vq
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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
2022-03-04 13:26 ` Daniel Shahaf
2022-03-05 6:34 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
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