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Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/14/07 12:35
On 14 Sep, 11:56, Ben C <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote:
> A widescreen monitor is good for watching full-screen movies on, but is
> a bit too wide for text, which is generally more readable in slightly
> narrower columns.
Not necessarily. The idea that "narrow text is more readable" applies
to widths measured in word-lengths (which we can equate to ems, but
apparently the number of words or possibly syllables is cognitively
more significant than the number of raw characters).
If you've got vision problems, cheap wide-screen monitors are finally
the solution to zooming your text. You don't even need much
resolution, just size, so low pixel-count lower-cost TV screens are
fine, rather than high-res "computer" displays. The width of a
displayed <p> might still be no more than the old 15 words or so, but
that could be physical feet wide.
Of course a "fixed stripe" width:800px; web design kills this stone
dead. Bad idea.
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