Posted by dorayme on 01/26/34 11:59

In article <535rh2ljt6n1n6pq9nk65tfl95h45irdb8@4ax.com>,
Sid <elsid@nospam.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:43:42 +1000, dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> : Sorry, I guess you want it to go to whatever is left of the
> : browser height. Why would you want this? Anyway, you will have to
> : wait till the Northern Hemisphere help desk staff are on.
>
>
> The Southern Hemisphere is stumped too, without a URL.
>
> Sid

Methinks he wants to use it for layout, it probably has features
like backgrounds and borders and wants these to go to bottom of
window whether there is content there or not... Me, I like things
to end, no matter what they are, when there is nothing more to
say or show. I like style following content, no more and no less,
as much as content being styled.

I had a case recently with a client who complained (sort of) that
there was all this empty space on the right of some of the pages
I made for them. I said, well, there was no material to put
there? What do you want me to put there? To my eye, it looked
nice that there was nothing because there was nothing to be
distracted by. The content was small and text and needed to be em
constrained so the lines were not hard to read. It was in an
attractive box, easy to read (black on white) and the body
background was plain but coloured nice too. There is something
nice about not using all the canvas if it does not warrant it.

Nature abhors a vacuum it is said, but I don't think this dictum
should be adapted to rule about some need to fill all available
web browser space.

Excuse me for the little rave.

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dorayme

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