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>>pictur+(OP)
Good lord, body { max-width: 600px; } why in 2023, not everyone is reading this on an iPhone, and even if some were, that's why @media exists.

>>seanp2+G5
To quote pg, “The aim of web design is not to use all available screen space. It is legibility. Text is most legible with no more than 70 characters per line.”

>>kubric+i6
1. pg is wrong. Text is perfectly legible to me even at 200 characters per line. Different people are different.

2. Since different people are different, it makes no sense to handicap everyone just because some people have a hard time reading text that is wider than a narrow column. Make the text fill most of the window, and that way people can have the window sized to whatever their comfort level is.

This trend of super narrow columns of text is making the web worse. It needs to die.

>>bigstr+L8
The "70 characters per line" stuff comes from books which almost by definition are long-term reading projects involving many pages and lines.

The web ... is not that.