Re: CSS for Zsh website?

[Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>]

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.

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vq