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Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome

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Post by rodelrod » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #9

atoav wrote: post #8

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As someone who layouted more than one printed book: this is a pretty normal paragraph size for printed books. Even a bit short maybe (e.g. compared to novels). What books do you read?

Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. They also dont use red text color on orange background with additional dark orange letters on it. My point here is that this particular text presentation is really quite bad.

> Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho.

Try Proust

Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome

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Post by KONAir » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 2:07 PM UTC

zwirbl wrote: post #5

bmeski wrote: post #3

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Reader mode

a hundred times this, especially on sites like this with window width text

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Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome

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Post by watwut » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 8:33 PM UTC

rodelrod wrote: post #11

watwut wrote: post #9

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Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. They also dont use red text color on orange background with additional dark orange letters on it. My point here is that this particular text presentation is really quite bad.

> Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. Try Proust

pretty sure they dont pretty it as wide as this one was. My complain was not about length of the sentence, but about absurd width.

Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome

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Post by atoav » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 9:42 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #13

rodelrod wrote: post #11

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> Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. Try Proust

pretty sure they dont pretty it as wide as this one was. My complain was not about length of the sentence, but about absurd width.

Which depends on the screen..

Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome

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Post by watwut » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 11:11 AM UTC

atoav wrote: post #14

watwut wrote: post #13

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pretty sure they dont pretty it as wide as this one was. My complain was not about length of the sentence, but about absurd width.

Which depends on the screen..

Which is dumb way to determine text length unless your audience is exclusively mobile.

Which is my point. That text is seriously badly presented.

Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome

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Post by skhr0680 » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

watwut wrote: post #15

atoav wrote: post #14

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Which depends on the screen..

Which is dumb way to determine text length unless your audience is exclusively mobile. Which is my point. That text is seriously badly presented.

> Which is dumb way to determine text length unless your audience is exclusively mobile.

I don't think it's dumb when your users have either an 800 or 1024 pixel wide monitor. I added max-width: 800px using developer tools and the line length looks about perfect.