Fedora 11 Release Notes Update

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Feb 10 22:19:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:10:23PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Assuming you are human (hey, on the internet no one knows you're a
> > dog!) then it's a well-known fact in typographical circles that it is
> > uncomfortable to read lines longer than a certain width.
> 
> It's worse to need to scroll through meters of web page just because
> somebody decided not to use your screen space for some arrogant "I know
> better than you" reason.

Well you can discard 700 years of accumulated experience into
typography and human perception if you wish.

Perhaps work on a better way to preview and scroll through web pages?
Browser UIs are hardly ideal and I can think of a few ways to
summarise long pages better than the prevalent "viewport + scrollbar"
interface.

Rich.

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