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Just shrink your window if you want 80 chars per line, jeez.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but the parent was offering advice for accessibility to help the member's of the community improve on their projects. Why would you disapprove of that?

I personally hate when sites make the text narrow. If I want the text narrow, I shrink the browser. (Which I never actually do BTW.)

So to me the advice makes things worse, not better. 60-80 chars per line???? Even my email is wider than that. Go for at least 200.

This, a thousand times this.

Sure, for some reason standard typographic practice and tons of readability tests that show the need for narrower lines don't apply to you especially.

And? I think it's a lot more people than you realize - at the moment my comment has 7 points, and that's despite getting downmodded a few times.

This stuff with narrow lines may have been tested on poor readers perhaps? I don't know. All I know is I hate narrow lines - and I especially hate them on websites.

I mostly attribute it to self-delusion.

Also, none of those 7 even did a proper A/B/A test on what they claim --while the counter-example is well shown in tons of tests.

sigh

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