HEADS UP: Website Overhaul

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Wed Mar 10 21:40:03 PST 2004


On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:28:23 -0500
David Cuthbert <dacut at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Gary Thorpe wrote:
> > Change the font settings for your browsers then. What is certain is
> > that you cannot predict (or even determine reliably and adjust) the
> > client's screen-size/resolution. There is no arguing this.
> 
> So that I have to scroll up/down all the time for each web page and
> see 20 lines per screen?  Ugh.
> 
> I'll hold on to those misused tables, thanks, until they fix HTML/web
> browsers so that there's a "format this in a readable width" style
> command.

CSS2's max-width, for some value of "readable".  (Deja-vu...)

In the meantime, you could (shock! horror!) resize your browser window.

It's a shame this discussion isn't on docs@ - it might be halfway
relevant there, and it would liven up the place...

-Chris





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