> One other point. I didn't dive heavily into the site, but LWN makes this
> mistake constantly. Lines too long. When a line gets too long on screen,
> it gets hard to read, and hard to follow to the end of the line. I don't
> know a good limit, but I'd guess any line should be 480 to 640 pixels,
> the shorter the better.
I disagree with this. I *hate* layouts where the content is a thin,
toiletpaperesque strip running down the center of the browser window.
I complained several years ago when Newsforge went to that type of
layout (after a lot of complaints, they moved to a variable-width
layout again). Additionally, in this case, the sidebars seem to be
large enough that the line length of the central content doesn't get
very long - looks like about 15 words on average (FF2, 1600x1200 res,
12pt minimum fontsize).
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