Re: OT: Azurian.

On 2008-10-30 Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> My particular vision problem makes it hard to read too
> wide lines of text, which is something almost all web sites
> err against.  It's a good idea to wrap the main text of
> a page in a <div> which is 33em wide, and preferably
> centered in its containing block.
It's just that at normal font sizes (11-14pt) this
causes the number of characters on each line to be
appropriate for scanning each line with the eyes
with a minimum (preferably none) sideways eye
(or even worse, head/neck) movement. I.e about
60-65 characters per line. I guess it has to do
with the distance between a normal human's eyes.
As you can see there is an average of two chars
per em!

Due to my impaired peripheral vision my ideal
text block width is narrower, about 50 chars.
I wish there was a convention that the main
text block of all webpages was wrapped in a
<div> with id="textblock" so that one could
use local CSS to set it's width, or rather the
width of <p>, <pre> and <blockquote> blocks inside it,
like so:

#textblock p, #textblock blockquote,
#textblock pre {max-width: 25 em; }