Re: Firefox formatting glitch?

dorayme wrote:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@xxxxxx> wrote:
The real problem here (that I see now) is that there are "columns" that
are only empty *there*. You would not wonder about the center box
shrinking if there was text on the left and right side, for the text
there would need to grow proportionally as well, like on the homepage.

Not really, you need to think this through.

You need to.

When cols are sidebars, the semi-imperative to have them grow with the
text size is not so urgent. All that is required is readability.

Exactly.

And this means, on wrap, not merely one small word per line but maybe
*just a few* for the least sighted but sighted among us.

There is both a lower and an upper limit to the number of characters per
line that humans find easily readable. Ask newspaper people.

That links will fit in or be designed to fit in and the width of the
largest picture be taken account of. People do not use or read
sidebars in the same way as content.

You don't know what you are talking about. There is no inherent upper limit
as to how much text can be zoomed in a user agent. There is also no
requirement to use the author-specified fonts. And this becomes a problem
if there are long words, because they cannot always be hypenated (sensibly).
Not allowing the margins to grow in size with the font-size is easily going
to make a mess of the site, with text width exceeding the boundaries of the
box.


PointedEars
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when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
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