Sent by Caio Chassot on 3 May 2003 23:11
> But online, it's generally been regarded as "bad", to fix a user, in a
> certain width, and for some things, I can understand this, but at the
same
> time, I find useit.com very unreadable, simply for having text, which
flows
> across the whole of my 19" screen, very wide pages.
Then you just keep your browser width small.
I often browse with a browser window that's about 720px wide and 850px
tall. Occasionally I have to go 805px wide, or 1024px wide to fit some
not-so-well designed sites.
It's insane to go all maximized in high resolutions.
But I do agree that setting a max-width doesn't hurt. And for IE
users... Too bad for IE (tm)
They'll just have to resize their browser. It's a minor issue.
> So I'm wondering, is there any research out there, on what seems to be
a
> good width, for CRT based text?
30 - 40 chars is good. Don't know about any research though.
(but don't go around setting a max-width of 40em, it doesn't work like
that. em is the width of the widest char. Typically 'M', occasionally
'W'.)
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