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Please don't do that! Wide lines are my pet peeve! It doesn't make sense to use width just because you can. In fact it's a bad idea because it's much, much har
by pivo 13y ago
Please don't do that! Wide lines are my pet peeve!
It doesn't make sense to use width just because you can. In fact it's a bad idea because it's much, much harder to read really wide text and code should be written to be read. You don't see (good) web pages, books or magazines with really wide text because it's really hard to read.
Also people sometimes work on small screen laptops and there you are constrained by width.
e.g:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/em/ http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/em/
http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
I know there are actual studies that show reading comprehension based on line length, I've read them before, but I can't find them now.
- paperwork 13y agoI think you misunderstood my point. I don't want long lines of text, I want multiple columns of short lines.
- pivo 13y agoAh, yep I misunderstood. Sorry! Unfortunately at my company people insist on writing code in 130+ columns, I'm a little over sensitive about it I guess.
- bjeanes 13y agoMultiple columns is not at all the same thing as long lines. See: newspapers.