This has been a dilemma for me for years, it just occurred that I should ask.
Say I have a character limit for an input or textarea I want to allow enough visible area for the user to enter the maximum amount number of characters.
Limit: 10
iiiiiiiiii
vs.
wwwwwwwww
Initially I would guess the size based on lorum or random text.
If you think it through: the maximum size is based on the number of em sized characters in the text.
So I went through a phase of making the minimum visible field size em x character limit, though obviously this is ridiculous as it's impossible to construct a sentence made entirely of 'w's and 'm's and textareas get stupidly big.
So my question is: what is the absolute most em-sized characters you could possibly put in a sentence?
Or how would you go about finding this information? As a developer I put the question here, but is there a language-person-overflow that would know?
Would a woodchuck be it?:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood.
The proportion here is 14(ems)/155(chars) -- say just under 10%.
Is there some more technical way to determine this? Is there some outlier circumstance where there would be more than this ~10% (say www.www.com)?
Hopefully with this information I can then make inputs/textareas approximately as big as they need to be: no bigger; no smaller.
