Posted by dorayme on 10/15/05 07:53

> From: Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com>
> Organization: Studio H
> Newsgroups: alt.html
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:06:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: styled text substitute for a picture that fails to load...
>
> In article <BF76B87C.18E63%dorayme@optusnet.com.au>,
> dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> http://dorayme.150m.com/opinionFolder/drugLaws.html
>>
>> Yes, ok Leo, you tell me what is wrong with the frames you find
>> there...
>
> Well done page. Now let me check it in Lynx. Mutter, mumble, mumble.
> I'd break some of the logical headings into links so as not to make the
> page so long, but you weren't asking for criticism. And I'm not
> criticizing.

Er well, Leo..., I don't mind, you know how easy going I am...
my ears (I mean, my antennae) are always pricked for suggestions
I can remember that make good solid sense. I'd not be keen to
webisize it as an exercise. Actually, you now make me think.
What am I keen on? I suppose for it to be printed. Thinks. Ah, a
stylesheet for this purpose, I must have a go at this for the
experience and in this case, it could be quite practical. I've
got Acrobat (to make things, not just to read) on a sad Windows
machine in an upstairs office, hmm... another thought...

I send it as an attachment or a link to various fuddy duddies,
especially puritan types in the media, politicians and even
academics who can't think past their noses... almost everyone
has this prohibition thing deep in their bones, they simply
cannot imagine the long term effects of a more sensible policy.

After I posted it to 150m.com I suddenly had an inspiration born
of fear. I thought, O Christ! Mark Parnell or someone will
notice I have a fixed 450px wide div for the main text but what
if someone enlarges big... looks awful...

The idea was to keep lines reasonable unwide. 450 px is
reasonably comfortable to read for average sizes but I changed
it to em and guessed a figure, what was it? 35em? This had the
advantage of not being uncomfortable when big. Of course, big
big brings in the h-scrollbar unlike fixed px but in this case
it is not unreasonable. I expect it is a matter of judgement how
many ems to give for this sort of thing... If anyone wants to
say what they do in such situations, they are welcome and I
listen with interest.

dorayme

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