[Sigia-l] width limits for a body of text

[Patrick Neeman]

I think the points made by listera were:
a) Most users can't even figure out how to change the monitor setting on the computer, much less tell us all of those settings.
b) While some users (like us) would rather have control over the computing environment, most of them certainly have enough trouble
figuring out how to browse the web.
c) And it's up to web developers, IAs, whatnot to serve up a presentation that is not only attractive, easy to use, but will work on
a multitude of different systems.

So deriving what should be a resonable line length is almost impossible, of course, unless you design for the least common
denominator (which, for most of us is 800 by 600).

But that's my opinion, I may be wrong.

P@

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
> Boniface Lau
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:01 PM
> To: Listera; sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] width limits for a body of text
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> > Behalf Of Listera
> >
> > "Boniface Lau" wrote:
> >
> > > Users know best because they know their default font face, size,
> > > monitor size, DPI, etc.
> >
> > I don't think you want to bet me on that one.
>
> Can you tell us how you would set a reasonable line length without
> overriding the user font face and size and yet without knowing the
> user font face, size, monitor size, and DPI?
>
>
> Boniface
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