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Re: TechBase
by Diederik van der Boor on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @00:28
> although it would be even better if it filled the whole browser width.

False.

No seriously. I agree on pages with a fixed height. This is line a stamp, really annoying. A maximum width on the other hand is actually good design. The paragraph length remains consistent, the number of words at one line can be optimized for best readability.

Everyone who've used Latex probably knows about this. There are in fact scientific studies how large a page margin and line width should be. Open any academic book and you'll notice the large margin space, and number of words at one line. Sites with a good width are easier to read _if and only if_ the width is in "em" so it scales with the font size.
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Re: TechBase
by Thomas Zander on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @00:40
> The paragraph length remains consistent, the number of words at one
> line can be optimized for best readability.

Unfortunately, unlike TeX, this is impossible with HTML with different DPIs and such for each screen. Second, HTML is suppost to be dynamic and personal. I like more words on a line with slightly more linespacing. Which is impossible with that layout.

Fortunately, if you create an account, you can alter your default style on techbase to be the normal media wiki style. Makes things readable for me again :)
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Re: TechBase
by Tim on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @04:51
Perhaps, although I think most people think Latex has much too large a default margin. Anyway this page at least should have full width:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/
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  • Re: TechBase
    by renoX on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @07:38
    >although I think most people think Latex has much too large a default margin.

    Count me on the 'most people'.
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  • Re: TechBase
    by Aaron J. Seigo on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @10:17
    heh. "no, really, my brain works differently than the rest of the species" ;)

    as for websvn, i totally agree. that application needs a non-fixed design. text content (e.g. articles and tutorials) benefit from it, but not web apps like websvn or lxr. hopefully we get that addressed at some point in the near-ish future.
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