Re:A Note About Git Commit Messages
by billmcneale on Friday January 07, 2011 @04:25PM
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The problem is with the way the archive web site decided to render this text.
From a web standpoint, the author of this email did the right thing: introduce very little formatting (only paragraph breaks) and leave it up to style sheets to render his text the way the reader wants it.
That's how you get the same text to render perfectly on a twenty column display (e.g. an old phone), a 30' inch monitor and everything in-between.
Introducing manual newlines at arbitrary points (e.g. 80 columns) is a bad practice that assumes that everyone will read your text on the same device.
From a web standpoint, the author of this email did the right thing: introduce very little formatting (only paragraph breaks) and leave it up to style sheets to render his text the way the reader wants it.
That's how you get the same text to render perfectly on a twenty column display (e.g. an old phone), a 30' inch monitor and everything in-between.
Introducing manual newlines at arbitrary points (e.g. 80 columns) is a bad practice that assumes that everyone will read your text on the same device.
Relevant explanation:
http://beust.com/weblog/2009/03/10/of-kindle-and-web-usabili...