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Re:A history of branch prediction by suprfnk on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:15AM (#15079834)
This is even better, in my opinion: https://bestmotherfucking.website/

Anyway, I agree. Text should always have a max width. Long lines of text aren't really readable.

I use this in my SurfingKeys settings, and use it on a lot of sites to make them more readable:

  mapkey('<Ctrl-m>', 'Centers the current page', function() {
    document.body.style.cssText = "font-family: sans-serif !important";
    document.body.style.cssText += "color: black !important";
    document.body.style.cssText += "line-height: 1.4 !important";
    document.body.style.cssText += "margin: 0 auto !important";
    document.body.style.cssText += "max-width: 60em !important";
    document.body.style.cssText += "background: none !important";
    document.body.style.cssText += "background-color: #FEFEFE !important";
    
    return true;
  });
Re:A history of branch prediction by lmm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:24AM (#15079864)
Disagree, or at least if there's a width that's too wide then I haven't found it yet. Let the user set the width they want in their browser, don't force your own max width on them.
Re:A history of branch prediction by adrianN on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:28AM (#15079887)
Typography people generally agree that lines that are too long are harder to read and recommend fairly short lines, less than 15 words. They have a number of studies backing them up. Maybe you're an outlier.