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[Python-Dev] Playing with a new theme for the docs

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sun Mar 25 01:41:42 CET 2012 
PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:
>
> > If you don't want 1920-pixel-wide text, why make your browser window
> > that large?
>
> Not every tab in my browser is text for reading; some are apps that
> need the extra horizontal space.

So, again, why make your browser window *for reading text* that large?

You have control over how large your window size is, and if you have
purposes so different that they demand different widths, then you can
easily make different-width windows.

Everyone has different needs for how large the text should be and how
much of it should go across the window. Every one of us is in a minority
when it comes to those needs; that's exactly what a configuration
setting is good for.

It's madness to expect web designers to hobble the flexibility of a web
page to cater preferentially for one minority over others.

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