Re: [gopher] width of a gophersite
On 17 September 2011 08:08, Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, 01:05:52 EEST, Walter Vermeir <walter@wikizine.org> wrote:
>
>> By default the width of a gophersite is 70 symbols. I suspect that
>> comes from the early monitors.
>
> The early terminals were 80 wide, and the first gopher clients used six or so chars for item types leaving about 74 for the content. And even today Lynx on a 80 wide terminal does the same.
>
>> But, besides tradition, is there any reason why you should not increase
>> that?
>
> No, not really. 100 wide should work just fine these days...
>
> - Kim
>
it's not unheard of for some of us to use lynx to browse gopher sites
in an 80 column terminal even today, item types + 70 still fits quite
nicely on 80 columns.
Peter
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