Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Page scoring.

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Steve Wainstead schrieb:
> 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.

well said! 
And I though I was the only one who knew this :) (but you worked for a
newspaper)

Layouters and fast-readers even count in eye-hops, where a hop is a word or 
a easy to identify group of words. You normally read in 3-5 hops and can 
train up to 5-6 hops.
80 chars for reading is a pretty large number for readers, but okay 
for programmers.

in my current php project people don't do any linebreaks, but my emacs does. 
so I don't care.

like:            <td align="right"><br><form name="search" <? echo 'action="'
. tep_href_link(FILENAME_ADMIN_USERS, tep_get_all_get_params(), 'NONSSL') .
'"'; ?> method="get"><?php echo
tep_span_class("smallText",'','&nbsp;'.HEADING_TITLE_SEARCH . '&nbsp;<input
type="text" name="search" value="'. $HTTP_GET_VARS['search'] . '"
size="8">&nbsp;' . tep_image_submit(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'button_search.gif',
IMAGE_SEARCH)); ?></form></td>
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/