Re: Can I use Lynx to archive-as-I-browse in a queue-based workflow?

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Dec 2025 02:53:53 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID	<20251206085353.4oyf3vbtciy6zl7x@illithid>

Hi Thorsten,

Your quoting is a little misleading; one has to carefully count '>'
symbols and recall thread history to realize that the following words
are from Mouse, not me.

You didn't quote me at all, despite the "dixit" attributed to me.

At 2025-12-06T02:06:11+0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson dixit:
> >> flavour of) unreadability.  The traditional thing is to break
> >> somewhere shortly before 80 characters - not arbitrary, but chosen
> >> to fit traditional terminal sizes and, more recently, default
> >> window sizes.
> 
> Yes, please do so.
> 
> >> > This arises from using a 5x8px bitmap font on a 1280x800px
> >> > display.

And that in turn quotes James R. Haigh.

On another note, I had a goof in my reply "preferred line length for
email", namely a paragraph that didn't get where I wanted to go because
I constructed too Faulkernian a sentence and overflowed a buffer of some
sort in my brain.  I'll recast and expand.

The structural elements favoring a near-square aspect ratio for CRTs may
explain why high-definition television only seriously took off once
high-quality and somewhat affordable alternative display technologies
began to penetrate the consumer market.  Home theater aficionados were
early adopters, a market segment that had to be won over (read:
sufficiently impressed to open their wallets at the high price points
that accompany roll out of any new tech in consumer electronics) and
their preferences were already well known, having been observed
differential sales figures for projection televisions, laserdisc
players, and explicit "widescreen" editions of laserdisc releases of
Hollywood films.  Aspect ratios greater than 4:3 had been widely adopted
by motion picture production companies in Hollywood in the 1950s,
specifically as a reaction to and differentiator from television, a
CRT-based technology employing an aspect ratio of 4:3, which is pretty
close to the pre-television "Academy" aspect ratio of 1.375:1 used by
the most common photochemical film formats.  (Aspect ratio compatibility
is also convenient for production purposes.)

Regards,
Branden

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