Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 11/07/07 17:07

On 2007-11-07, 1001 Webs wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 7, 12:25 pm, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> "1001 Webs" <1001w...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1194431423.795169.202640@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> > On Nov 7, 2:01 am, "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> What is oversized? If it is oversized without any font-size specs,
>> >> your browser needs adjusting.
>>
>> > I mean oversized when it doesnt fit in the boxes is supposed to.
>> > I think is almost done now.
>>
>> Then it's worse. It's not your browser that needs adjusting, it is your
>> design.
> No idiot, no.
> The text has to fit in the box, moron.

If you give a fixed size to the box, the text you provide, no
matter what it is, may or may not fit in the box. It all depends on
the font size in the viewer's browser.

If you don't specify the size of the box, it will expand to fit the
text.

>> It is plain stupid to expect resizable text to fit in some arbitrarily sized
>> box.
> It is plain foolish, to say the least, to give opinions without
> knowing about the dimensions of the box.

It is plain foolish to give a fixed size to a box when you don't
know what size the viewer is using for text (and you don't).

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Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster <http://Woodbine-Gerrard.com>
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