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Re: CSS for Zsh website?



On Thu, Mar 3, 2022, at 7:12 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:31 PM Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx> 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.

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