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I works quite fine without any css for me with any window size I tried. Are you using a mobile device? However, he does include images from third party sites wh

I works quite fine without any css for me with any window size I tried. Are you using a mobile device? However, he does include images from third party sites which may cause referrer leakage which goes against the no-tracking issue he raised. (I'm only being this harsh because the article is too)

yoz-y 11y ago
No, I am viewing it on a 24" screen. However I consider long lines of text as unreadable and my default size for a browser window is quite large. I really think most sites with simplistic CSS would include body { max-width: 11in; } or something similar in their stylesheet. Note that my own personal website conforms very well to his expectations (except loading images from flickr (without javascript) which, as you pointed out, leaks private data). I would add however that the most important thing is readability, responsiveness and speed. A webpage without stylesheets is technically responsive, but in practice not very readable, due to pretty bad defaults in most browsers (i.e.: tiny fonts and cramped text) Finally, the most important part of any article-based website (for me) is a full text RSS, which enables me to have actually good reading experience - outside of a web browser.
- hollerith 11y ago
  Is it not better to specify max-width in ems? body { max-width: 35em; } That way, if the user makes the text very large, the entire width of the window will be used.
  - yoz-y 11y ago
    This probably depends on the browser but Safari, for example, scales inches (and centimetres) with the zoom level, so the result is probably the same. I don't like em and rem much as they do not really reflect the actual size in tangible units, but that is largely a personal preference.
    - hollerith 11y ago
      What if the user changes the font size with CSS?
      - yoz-y 11y ago
        That is a valid point. Although I think that if you are modifying CSS then you either know exactly what you are doing, or disabling it altogether and replacing it with your own stylesheet. I think that there is quite a lot of stuff that will break if you increase the font size too much. I'll play with it a little bit more, the ems might be a better solution after all.
- tired_man 11y ago
  You aren't alone in thinking that long lines reduce readability. It's a fact proven out by years of practice in print.
- dredmorbius 11y ago
  don't specify max width in physical units, except for print. Specify them in either em or rem units. My preference is ems for text width as that translates naturally to line length. Toss in an auto left an right margin for centered text and a padding directive for keeping text out of the gutters and you're a long way to readability.
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yoz-y 11y ago

No, I am viewing it on a 24" screen. However I consider long lines of text as unreadable and my default size for a browser window is quite large. I really think most sites with simplistic CSS would include body { max-width: 11in; } or something similar in their stylesheet. Note that my own personal website conforms very well to his expectations (except loading images from flickr (without javascript) which, as you pointed out, leaks private data). I would add however that the most important thing is readability, responsiveness and speed. A webpage without stylesheets is technically responsive, but in practice not very readable, due to pretty bad defaults in most browsers (i.e.: tiny fonts and cramped text) Finally, the most important part of any article-based website (for me) is a full text RSS, which enables me to have actually good reading experience - outside of a web browser.

hollerith 11y ago
Is it not better to specify max-width in ems? body { max-width: 35em; } That way, if the user makes the text very large, the entire width of the window will be used.
- yoz-y 11y ago
  This probably depends on the browser but Safari, for example, scales inches (and centimetres) with the zoom level, so the result is probably the same. I don't like em and rem much as they do not really reflect the actual size in tangible units, but that is largely a personal preference.
  - hollerith 11y ago
    What if the user changes the font size with CSS?
    - yoz-y 11y ago
      That is a valid point. Although I think that if you are modifying CSS then you either know exactly what you are doing, or disabling it altogether and replacing it with your own stylesheet. I think that there is quite a lot of stuff that will break if you increase the font size too much. I'll play with it a little bit more, the ems might be a better solution after all.
tired_man 11y ago
You aren't alone in thinking that long lines reduce readability. It's a fact proven out by years of practice in print.
dredmorbius 11y ago
don't specify max width in physical units, except for print. Specify them in either em or rem units. My preference is ems for text width as that translates naturally to line length. Toss in an auto left an right margin for centered text and a padding directive for keeping text out of the gutters and you're a long way to readability.

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