Gripe: Text filling screen width

I hate it when a site fills my screen width, making text lines 18 inches long
and difficult to read. So I shrink my window and *hope* the text word-wraps.

Example: http://www24.pair.com/glyptica/LAMWeb/Sttng.htm
(which does word wrap.)

What's the best choice: width =800 px and centered ?

What's the best site design for various screen sizes?

MasonC (AT) frontal-lobe (DOT) info

On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:27:45 -0700, Mason C <masoncXXX (AT) XXXfrontal-lobe (DOT) info>
wrote:

I hate it when a site fills my screen width, making text lines 18 inches long
and difficult to read. So I shrink my window and *hope* the text word-wraps.

Example: http://www24.pair.com/glyptica/LAMWeb/Sttng.htm
(which does word wrap.)

What's the best choice: width =800 px and centered ?

What's the best site design for various screen sizes?

MasonC xxx @frontal-lobe.info

Sorry, I goofed, that was a silly "link" -- please ignore it.

Mason C

Mason C wrote:

I hate it when a site fills my screen width, making text lines 18 inches long
and difficult to read. So I shrink my window and *hope* the text word-wraps.

What's the best choice: width =800 px and centered ?

px has nothing to do with line length, the number of characters does.
Regardless, setting a fixed width to limit line length is the wrong
solution.

What's the best site design for various screen sizes?

Setting a max-width in ems is a better choice than any fixed width.
Around 35em is usually pretty good for paragraph width.

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Berg