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bug#40909: eww: Add max width option similar to Man-width-max


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: bug#40909: eww: Add max width option similar to Man-width-max
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:18:18 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> Oh, I had missed that it exists.  It's almost there, but its default
>> is not 80.  Could we change that?
>
> I think the natural default is the frame width -- people have presumably
> chosen a frame width they are comfortable with using.

I think that large, wide monitors are increasingly common, and I
suspect many people simply run Emacs in full screen mode.

It's generally easier to read text if it's restricted to 50-80
characters or so.[1]

Compare to how many large web sites no longer use the full screen
width, as was common when the web was young, but restrict it to a
predetermined maximum width even on large monitors.

I mean, ideally I suppose we would pick that out from the CSS, but
that sounds very hard to do.  So, at least to my mind, changing the
default of shr-width to 80 might be the next best thing.

> But it would make sense to point users to shr variables, too, when they
> are customising eww.

Yes, this would be good.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Footnotes:
[1]  
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/13724/recommended-column-width-for-text-reading-digital-vs-printed






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