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

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/12802
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  Ticket             | 12802
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Limit max width of compose textarea in dynamic view
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 6.1.4
  Type               | Enhancement
-State              | New
+State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2013-10-28 13:15) wrote:

> 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.