[Theforum] Evolt redesign - user choice

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 22 12:26:53 CST 2002


> From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
[...]
> ok, but here's the problem.  since we support most any screen
> resolution, where do we define the point at which a continuation
> character gets inserted?  70 characters or more on a line?  40
> characters or more?  the number of characters should be somewhat
> related to the user's browser window width to be most useful.

bad idea, IMO...

too many people cut-n-paste, first-off...

and then there's the handling for any font size at any resolution... 
you *can't* define an ideal line length and have it work for 100% of 
users... and then, even if we do, we're gonna have some tall and 
confusing code blocks...





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