80-character comments: does it matter?

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

	So, right now we wrap comments server-side at exactly 80 characters
before displaying them in the web interface (except for Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean, which are always wrapped client-side).

	Does it actually matter that comments are wrapped at 80 characters? We
do it because that's the exact width of the textarea, and so the
comments will come out looking almost exactly like they do in the textarea.

	Does that actually matter? I'm asking because there is currently a bug
that would be resolved if we did all comment-wrapping client side.
(Though I'm actually not sure that all browsers can do that reliably,
but I haven't tested in a while so I forget.) The only problem is that,
as far as I'm aware, there's no way in CSS to say "this element should
be exactly X characters wide" so we'd lose the "wrap at exactly 80
characters" functionality.

	-Max
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