Human vision isn't designed for scanning vertically

Must be why textbooks, PDFs, magazines, newspapers, mass market paperbacks, and just about all other printed materials are published in landscape mode. As to a possible alternative response regarding human vision and its inherit scanning–

I bet -- in fact I'll pretty much guarantee -- that you cannot cite one authoritative reference for that piece of pseudo-science

As to the question from Ea. I do exactly the same thing you do; one monitor in landscape (image editing, email, etc), one in portrait (code, text oriented Internet browsing, etc). I know a lot of hackers who use portrait mode.

In reply to Re^3: To <=80 char code line length or not by Your Mother
in thread To <=80 char code line length or not by stevieb

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