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offtopic nitpick: I have a really nice widescreen monitor, and you are giving me 13 words per line using about a quarter of the horizontal space. Why is that?

• wpietri 14y ago
  For the same reason that broadsheet newspapers and magazines put the text in columns, I imagine. Because if you make text too wide it's hard to read.
  • spencertipping 14y ago
    That, and because my main machine is a 1024x600 netbook, so I sized it to fit on that screen.
  • CamperBob2 14y ago
    How about letting the user make that call?
    • wpietri 14y ago
      That is the sort of thinking that gave us the X Windows configuration file. Nobody wants to make that call for most things in their life. Nobody has time. There is definitely a minority of people who do want to carefully size each browser window for optimal reading, but it is a pretty small minority.