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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 9, 2004 12:40PM

> What about an elastic layout whereby body {width: 50ems;} (as an
> example) whereby the 10 words/line would not change as the text size
> is changed?

It's valid *if* you could ensure that a person's prefered text size would
correlate to the available width of their browser view-port.

Which is hard to do.

-Darrel