- From: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:31:45 +0100
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: > > Bert Bos wrote: > >> I use 'max-width: 35em' for that. >> > That's what I was going to say as well. Well, that address a part (but not all) of the problem. Firstly, the guidance suggests that there is a minimum, as well as a maximum, number of characters per line for optimal readability in running text, so in practice we'd need something like : min-width: 20em; max-width: 35em Secondly, there is at least one well-known and widely used browser that does not honour max-width. And thirdly (and this is the real reason we went for dynamic font sizing in the first place), we want to make maximum use of the user's browser window, so we actually set font size to cause the overall design to occupy approximately 90% of the available real estate, whilst still honouring the typographic recommendations concerning the optimal length of line. Philip TAYLOR
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