CSS abuse

[David Relson]

Jeff,

Your reasoned explanation is appreciated.

So far, voting is two for CSS and two against and one (me) in the "either 
way seems fine" group.

David

At 09:35 PM 3/29/03, Jeff Kinz wrote:

>I have a 20" monitor, resolution set to PDH (pretty darn high).  I'm browsing
>in Phoenix 0.5.   The problem described below also happens in Mozilla 0.9.2.1
>
>Please add my vote to Matthias'.  The FAQ style is setup so that there is a
>horizontal scroll bar active on the browser until I expand the window almost
>all the way across my display.  the style insists on a window width of 
>fourteen
>inches and then only uses the middle 6.25 inches.  :-(
>
>It ties up huge amounts of screen real estate without using it.  I'm not
>sure what the author intended but I don't see a 3.5 inch margin on the
>left and the right as useful.
>
>No matter what size I make the window, the width of the text is fixed.
>This seems to me to be defeating the purpose and nature of browsers
>and HTML.  You should never select a fixed width for text unless you
>need to display something a chunk of code text.  The rest of the time the
>text should be flowed by the browser.
>
>If I have a reason to make my browser window very narrow the text display
>should flow within that view (with some exception as noted above).
>The current style defats that completely, just as it defeats making my
>window wider.
>
>Could be its just a problem with my browsers.  They are closely related,
>codewise.  It seems unlikely.