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In what may be one of the most controversial studies of the year, researchers at Skidmore College—clearly triggered by a change in the American Psychological Association (APA) style book—sought to quantify the benefits of two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence. After conducting an eye-tracking experiment with 60 Skidmore students, Rebecca L. Johnson, Becky Bui, and Lindsay L. Schmitt found that two spaces at the end of a period slightly improved the processing of text during reading. The research was trumpeted by some press outlets as a vindication of two-spacers' superiority.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @08:08PM
Because it was authored by hand and that required it to be readable. One line of 999999 characters long isn't quite as readable. And even in case of generated HTML there are still whitespaces floating around.