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Re:1140px grid system. Time to scrap 960px? by guelo on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @08:06PM (#1888732)
> the human eye starts to get strained if reading columns wider than ~60 characters

Weird, I had no problem reading your comment even though HN is formatting it for me at around 180 chars.

Re:1140px grid system. Time to scrap 960px? by ttdi on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @08:27AM (#1890140)
It's not necessarily something you notice. It gradually gets a bit more difficult once you start getting past that point. And you won't necessarily think "oh, this is so hard to read" either (at least at large-but-still-reasonable widths). It'll just end up being a factor you weigh (if not consciously) when deciding "okay, I've had enough with reading this" and go on to the next thing.