Tickets :: Comment on [#12802] Limit max width of compose textarea in dynamic view

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Comment	>> I peg it at about 55em to match the intended width, which also works >> out to about the conventional 80-char limit preferred by many >> listadmins and so forth ;) > > The message width in the compose screen is completely irrelevant. > Especially in light of flowed text, in which it is the recipient's > choice on how to wrap the message. Not to mention that the width of > the textarea has nothing to do with linebreaks. Unless a user > manually enters a linebreak after every line, textarea input will be > sent in a long unbroken line. > > And there is no such thing as an 80 column email display standard. > There's a 78 column sending standard. But this long ago became > obsolete for display purposes when flowed formatting was introduced > (~15 years), which eliminated this technical restriction from > affecting the display of the content.
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