- From: <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:32:10 +0100 (CET)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 3 Dec, Harry Woodrow wrote: > What standard refers to 79 characters. My apologies, I'm sure. RFC 2822 section 2.1.1, "Line Length Limits": "There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF." The meaning of "SHOULD" in this context can be found in RFC 2119, and means that unless a very good reason exist, and the possible implications of violating the standard has been fully understood, you should stick to it. Since we are all here to discuss how to make information accessible to a number of people using a number of devices, it would seem a very small thing to ask that said discussions observe the standards which, in the first place, was created to make sure communication went well on different devices. Note that RFC 2822 obsoletes RFC 822, which has been in place since August of 1982. See also http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt. I expect I do not need to explain the standardization body of RFCs. -- - Tina Holmboe Greytower Technologies tina@greytower.net http://www.greytower.net/ [+46] 0708 557 905
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