Re: [pygame] how to remove spam comments in pygame wiki

[Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It makes me sad to hear a web designer say that :(

I do respect how difficult and limiting designing for full horizontal scaling can be, but quite frankly the web is simply better full width. Also, I think to imply that usability "suffers" for all non-fixed width designs is an obviously wrong statement, and in my opinion, just a cop out. In my experience, google & amazon made the right choice letting the content grow horizontally. Do you find their pages to have poor readability and usability? Cause if you do, the objective formalized testing with real customers those companies have done disagrees with your opinion.

.... also, I think you are mistaken in believing that a website could possibly set how many characters per line a browser shows.

All that being said, I'm terribly sympathetic with how hard the web design stuff can be as your testing matrix of browsers and window widths explode, and I'd never judge somebody for sticking with fixed width restrictions for that reason. Just please don't claim it's "better" for the user. :)

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Devon Scott-Tunkin <djvonfunkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As the designer of the new site I'm against that idea on principle.

I really hate using pages with no max width on widescreen monitors as it forces me to resize my window to read the pages.  Readability and usability suffer with expanding width pages after a certain width, which is why I like having max widths.  I don't think any readability is gained by having more than 80-100 characters per line, and that readability and usability is actually hindered.  I could probably increase the max width slightly, but I do not want it over 100 characters for the main page column, it is at 80 something now I believe.

Devon

--- On Thu, 7/30/09, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [pygame] how to remove spam comments in pygame wiki
> To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 8:01 PM

> Ian Mallett wrote:
>
> > It's harder to read because the page is narrower.
>
> I would say don't try to control the page width at
> all. Let it flow to whatever size the browser window
> is.
>
> -- Greg
>
>
>