CSS abuse

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Jeff Kinz wrote:

>> >I don't understand.  How does keeping the text a constant width increase
>> >readability?  
>> 
>> That is what centuries of typesetting showed. Long lines are
>> very hard to read 
> 
> Yes for books....  We are not using books here.

Why do you believe it changes with the medium?

> By using fixed text width you destroy the inherent flexibility
> of the browser to be arranged in the fashion that meets the needs of the
> READER, which is the whole point of using browsers and HTML in the first
> place.  

CSS changed that long ago. But max-width is *not* fixed
width, it is just what it says, an upper bound.

> Since there is no way to turn off style sheets in Phoenix I can't turn off
> the style either.

Since Phoenix is a Mozilla clone, you can probably use user
style sheets to set max-width to auto for body.

pi