At 19.14 +0100 99-02-03, one person wrote in a personal letter to me: > points d and e are pretty far out generalizations, you know. > points f and g are very personal opinions.
Yes, you are right. But that seems to be the way most designers of high-volume web pages do, there is a lot of narrow-column, short-line-length, size=2 text in almost all major high-volume web sites. My intention was to try to describe why they do it this way.
Of course, one could add an additonal clause to my list:
(i) Since so many major web sites use this reasoning, users adjust to it by setting their web browser settings so that such pages look neat.
Perhaps I should also add that it was not my intention to claim that people consciously reason through all the steps in my list. Rather that this kind of cause- and-effect is forming the web by not-explicitly- specified actions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacob Palme <[log in to unmask]> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme
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