Re: Linewrap and more!

In article <199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
   pet...@aol.com (PeteCasso) wrote:

<snip>

>While I am at it, I might as well comment on a related topic: how many
>characters per line for posting on the web.
>
>Theoretically there is no limit, because you can always scroll sideways 
on
>the webpage. A practical limit may be the desire to present the entire
>picture on a common 14" screen without scrolling. With a font size of 
6,
>you can easily get 160 characters across the width of the screen, twice
>the resolution of the old "80 characters" wisdom. This will help a lot 
in
>smoothing edges, you can think of having the midposition of a character
>width available to you, etc, etc. (Why not use an even smaller font 
size?
>Because it is difficult to get support for font sizes smaller than 6).
>

There are some of us whose eyes are not quite so good. I prefer to use a 
font size of 10, to avoid squinting.


>And while I am at it, here are even more ideas.
>
>One could utilize the ability to scroll sideways on a webpage to 
deliver
>360 degrees panoramic views, which would be the ascii equivalent of
>Virtual Reality, I think it would be perfectly justified to call 
creations
>of this nature "ascii Virtual Reality". 
>

I *can't stand* scrolling sideways. I set my wordwrap at 72 to avoid 
this. But an interesting idea.

>Of course, one could also utilize the ability to scroll vertically "to
>look up and down". Utilizing both scroll funtions, i.e. sideways and
>vertically, would allow you to depict an entire hemisphere, e.g. the 
stars
>in the Northern or Southern hemisphere. 
>
>Of course, one could add Java animation on top of it to depict the 
passage
>of the stars in the course of the night, etc, etc.
>

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