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    <p>And here, as expected, comes the usual canard: “long lines are too hard to read”.</p> <p><strong>[Citation needed]</strong>, folks.</p> <p>See <a href="http://webusability.com/article_line_length_12_2002.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://webusability.com/article_line_length_12_2002.htm</a> for a summary of actual research in this area. A number of these, plus <a href="http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp</a>, find that although users express a preference for moderate line lengths, reading speeds do not sharply drop off with ‘long’ lines; in fact many show increased speeds with the longer settings.</p> <p>As long as it's not <em>ridiculously long</em>, and taking care to use a decent amount of leading, long lines are not generally a real issue at today's typical browser widths and default font sizes. (If you're one of those designers that loves to use teeny-tiny type for everything, it could be an issue, but then you're already making it impossible to read with the flyspeck text. Stop it!)</p> <p>So as it's only an option of user preference that prefers medium-short lines, let us users decide how much screen space we want to give the web site to get our work done. We're the ones best-equipped to know. If you decide you know definitively best you're likely to waste space, or, if you guessed too long, make us scroll back and forth sideways to read the text — and that really <em>is</em> a readability nightmare.</p> <p>If you want to protect us from ourselves, you can compromise by specifying a min-width and max-width in ‘em’ units so that the page is responsive to liquid layout, but doesn't get stretched to extremes.</p> <p>But otherwise, the best reason to design fixed-width is indeed that it is easier, especially for someone with a fixed-2D-grid view of the world and static visual-design tools like Photoshop.</p>
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    1. COProblem is, most people are going to run their browser at max width all the time. And according to the research you cited, most people prefer moderate line lenghths (4-5 inches, much like this site). How do you accomodate them without forcing them to shrink their windows?
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    2. COBleh. It gives me a cold shudder: "The best reason to design to fixed-width...". You're absolutely right, but when the best reason is a bad one, that should say something. Anyway, +1.
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    3. CO@Adam Bellaire: "...most people are going to run their browser at max width all the time." Thought provoking, if true. But is it true?
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