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Posted by dorayme on 06/18/06 23:38
In article <5r4a925n44l8t076205q22ss03p33d9ca3@4ax.com>,
sorry.no.email@post_NG.com wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:48:55 +1000, dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> You might max-width this
> >particular content so it is easier to read, at least on modern
> >browsers on big screens.
>
> Hi Dorayme,
>
> Thanks for these comments. I will add max-width, I assume you mean to
> the paragraph text? I am not prepared to add the hacks to get this to
> work in IE6 which I understand ignores max-width:
>
> http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/
>
> Definitely the plan is to keep simple, I would prefer to do simple
> well rather than complex badly :-)
>
Just off the top of my head, re your page, you might be able to
em spec the main wrapper and have a guess, IE would then be tamed
with no hacks or conditionals in respect to the "problem" of over
long horiz lines on big screens.
I was rather surprised that in the link you give (above), I could
not make the lines less wide to suit my taste! Scroll bars came
up! Absurd, given the subject of the page!
I can see why you would not want to emulate his code, looks
awfully messy and not that easy to spot how to let the text wrap
and make it to suit oneself in respect to width. Honestly, I
don't actually know how he achieves this, I should look more
closely perhaps. I mean fancy that eh, here is a solution to over
wide in IE at least but it fails to allow reasonable narrowness.
I realise he is writing about IE and I am viewing in Safari and
Firefox but still...
--
dorayme
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