Board Thread:Darwin/@comment-2118812-20130822134212/@comment-3508190-20130906183535

There's apparently no upper limit for the width of the content area. On larger displays that results in a text width that makes reading very uncomfortable. Take a look:



To quote myself:

Reading efficiciency declines and so will the number of readers who make it to the last line. That's actually old news. There has been plenty of discussion and research about this topic. The Elements of Typographic Style specifically recommends 45 to 75 characters per line for block text. Granted, those recommendations were made with print in mind, but apart from wikipedia - which is a terrible example in this regard - I can't think of a single successful web site that does away with that recommendation completely. Unlimited character length is a bad idea.

And:

That's a step backwards from Oasis to the indiscriminate full screen width of Monaco and Monobook. I actually thought all this time that one of the main goals of Oasis was to fix just that. It seems I was mistaken.