On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:41 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > On 2022-Oct-21, Niels Bom wrote: > > Setting a max-width on regular textual content is good for > > readability, which in turn increases accessibility. See this W3C a11y > > documentation (1) and an a11y page by the US government (2) for more > > detailed info. > > > > Using the CSS max-width property makes narrower sizes possible (for > > smaller screens) but sets an upper limit. The newer `ch` unit in CSS > > is a good-enough approximation of the average width of a character. > > I've seen 66ch as the "ideal" width for regular text. For the docs > > code examples need to have enough width too of course. But we can have > > those be wider than their containing element if need be. > > +1 for this idea. (I often open multiple windows just so that I end up > with the right width in the one containing text to read, as a substitute > for this.)
For what it's worth, I've also often wished for a max-width on the docs. Another +1. 66ch ends up rather stark, though: I think we should go with something considerably wider.
