Posted by David Dorward on 01/05/84 11:37

Jose wrote:

>> Thankfully we have max-width. Shame IE doesn't support it yet.
>
> What does max-width do? If all it does is limit the width, no matter
> what the user wants, that's Bad. The user should be able to dictate
> terms.

This, I think, is taking the idea of user control too far. Setting a
max-width relative to the font size lets you (effectively) limit the line
length to a certain number of characters.

This lets you keep line lengths as something readable, without the problem
of horizontal scrolling on narrow displays.

The user /could/ adjust the width of their window, but having to constantly
adjust the width when switching between sites with different numbers of
columns (traditional webpage columns, not newspaper style columns) isn't a
great deal of fun.

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