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The same reasons the article lays out - that the underlying aspects of the written language drives the difference. Which I thought was really interesting as I'd
by michaelbuckbee 11y ago
The same reasons the article lays out - that the underlying aspects of the written language drives the difference. Which I thought was really interesting as I'd never really considered them.
- icegreentea 11y agoThe article does a poor job differentiating between different types of "clutter". For example, while a single continuous block of chinese text will look more dense than latin script for the reasons outlined, it does not explain why chinese websites seem to lay out their blocks differently. Anecdotally, chinese webpages seems to be laid out far more like newspapers than latin script equivalents.
- mook 11y agoIt seems much easier to line break CJK (pay a bit of attention near punctuation, otherwise breaking anywhere would do a decent job). Compared to Latin-based languages, where hyphenation would be involved, which means understanding the actual language. Try forcing comments in this thread into 20em width, for example.
- jacalata 11y agoThen why did English language websites start out so cluttered? If it was an intrinsic result of the language then it wouldn't be a modern thing.