[thelist] DEBATE: Fixed Width Vs Liquid

[Hassan Schroeder]

Martin Burns wrote:

> Another thing to think about is even if you accept a fixed maximum
> number of characters per line (note the conditional tense...), how many
> pixels does that translate to? Depends on your font size. Which is
> subject to another level of user preference.

Why 'translate' to pixels? And why is this whole debate either/or?

I have pages where I've sized paragraph max-widths to 40 ems -- based
on no research, just seemed empirically like a good size :-) -- with
a single-click way to change the width to 90% of the containing page
(not 100% only because I think a little margin improves readability).


FWIW!
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