A width should be set to a percentage, not a character width, if
set at all. It really should only be set when you have sidebars
you want to display. Too many web designers are or want to be
graphic designers and want the kind of control they have on a
printed page. This is why they set white backgrounds, which look
great on paper, but are like staring into a light bulb on an LED
display. That's just one example of taking choice out of the
users hands.
A web page should mostly be left in the hands of the user unless you have specific reasons to force a certain display. Don't try to choose the general font, don't limit the width, and don't force the foreground and background colors for general text. And if you do set one, for God's sake, set the other. It's one thing to set a foreground and background to set off a certain section of text, it's another to force the user to view it in the way that works best for you.
Code boxes should probably have a width set to 98%, so it doesn't
require scrolling the whole page to see the extra long lines.
(Though the writers of code should keep their code to a reasonable
width and use line continuation rather than run-on lines for
readability)
We are Unix people, a platform built on flexibility. You have
created one of the most flexible shells in existence. (Which is
why I've used it for 25+ years) The website should reflect that
flexibility.
On 10 March 2022 at 16:23 Vin Shelton <acs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I routinely use fullscreen to browse the web (without custom CSS), but line lengths > 100 characters are unreadable for me, so a width limitation on text would make sense for me.For what it's worth, and without implying this is a definitive answer, the state of the art for this seems to be a "reader" mode in browsers. I clicked on the reader mode icon in Vivaldi on the randomly chosen https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Guide/zshguide02.html#l6 and this seems to be doing a good job. pws