Posted by PeterMcC on 02/17/06 18:16

Jose wrote in
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>> Since web pages are often working along similar lines, their
>> paragraphs are also usually shorter than in normal print such as is
>> found in a novel.
>
> I had always assumed that web paragraphs are shorter because of screen
> resolution... it's harder to read on a computer screen, so one's eye
> needs more resting places.

Good point - when I said "making the text less demanding", I should perhaps
have said both in terms of its comprehensibility and in terms of its
decoding.

I also suspect that we see an acceleration of stylistic changes on the web,
so the move to shorter paragraphs would be more apparent here. After all, we
are at the cutting edge of cultural change - aren't we?

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