On Monday 31 August 2009 10:11:28 am Lex Trotman wrote:
2009/8/31 Randy Kramer rhkramer@gmail.com:
On Monday 31 August 2009 01:59:24 am Lex Trotman wrote:
2009/8/31 Randy Kramer rhkramer@gmail.com:
I think you'd have a decent CSS if the width=60 em line was deleted. ;-)
I don't, I don't like infinitely long lines that wrap themselves. Fixed size lines where everything is always in the same place is better, My two cents worth :-)
Lex (and anybody that feels the same way),
How do you feel if those fixed size lines are too wide for your computer screen, and required that you scroll horizontally to read each line? (I suspect you're a younger person with good eyes and use small fonts, but treat this as a hypothetical question, please.)
Randy Kramer
:-) and how do you feel when each line has three sentences in it as : it
streaches interminabley across your widescreen...
Well, in my browser, except for very rare occurrences when there is presumably something wrong with the HTML, that doesn't happen for me in any of the normal browsers I use. Does it happen for you? In a browser? Which browser(s)?
This is a question to which there is no right answer, or alternatively all answers are right for someone, we each have a valid opinion based on our own preferences. The best the creators of Geany can do is provide some flexibility and hope it suits the majority of people.
Ok, at least until there is a perfect solution. The feature of automatically wrapping to the width of the browser's (or whatever--editor, word processor, is a very common feature)--leaving the user free to adjust the width of the lines (by setting the width of the browser) to suit himself.
In the case where the pre-established width (in this case, 60 em) suits most users, not many people will agitate for a change. (I was thinking about suggesting a survey, but, the above is why I won't.) It seems, though, that having an easily adjustable width would satisfy more users.
And, even for you (although I don't know what software you're using, or how you're using it), you could adjust the width of your browser so that, for you, everything is always in the same place.
Anyway, I'm not really here to agitate the Geany developers (specifically). As a "tilting at windmills" project, I would like to convince all web page builders to avoid specifying a width and letting the browser adjust it to suit the user. Gives me something to do in my copious spare time. ;-)
Oh, and I'm not sure I quality as a younger person, I was programming computers pre-Unix, thats right pre-Thomson & Ritchie Unix, not pre-Linux.
It was just a guess--sorry if I guessed wrong. Hmm, could I guess at your age--I won't, but I'm guessing we're close to the same age--I started programming in 1968. That was pre-C. Without looking it up, I don't know if Unix came before or after C. I started on IBM-360s and Univac 1108s. Oh, wait, there was a smaller IBM that I used before the 360--wow--I'll never remember what that was.
Have a great day!
Randy Kramer