Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Page scoring.

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

Finally getting around to this thread... :-)

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> Anyhow, as I said, I never use the "5 best incoming/outgoing links".
> Does anyone?

I don't, though occasionally it's interesting to look at. I think this
info should be moved off to some kind of "meta" page, or perhaps something
in the Info link.

It's always refreshing to go back to c2.com and see how clean and simple
the interface is; personally the only thing I'd change clicking on the
title search to find all pages linking to the one you're looking at, since
it's not intuitive, but that's a small thing.

>
> PS:  Anybody have any preferences on the tab-width=4 vs tab-width=8
> issue?  If no one says anything I'm going to start using tab-width=8,
> 'cause thats my preference....

I actually rangled over this for some time with some programmer friends. I
think I posted a link to this list that was something written by jwz about
why you should not use tabs at all. It was pretty sound.

I don't have the greatest eyesight in the world. I use a font size of 12
in Emacs on a 19" monitor, and I can read quite well. With indents of 8
spaces, the code will quite often wrap around and will look like a total
mess. I could go to an 8 pt font, but I will get eye strain.

Originally I went for 2 or 3 spaces indenting. 4 seems too much to me :-)
Also, I don't think code should extend beyond 80 columns, which is why you
always see me doing crap like:

$query = "select foo from bar "     .
         "where blah='blippy' and " .
         "bar=42 sort by ascending";

Why 80 columns? Readability again. The reason magazines and newspapers
print in columns is because the human brain can best read lines that are
6-8 words long. Anything shorter or longer slows down the reading process
considerably.

My 2 cents. I think the PEAR guidelines are good ones.

cheers
~swain

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