[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki formatting for wide browsers

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 27 Sep 2007 at 09:14:15 +0100, "Magnus Manske" 
<magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:

> > To set the maximum width for the content, put
> > html { width:1280px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto }
> > in your monobook.css (adapt "1280px" to the width you like)
> 
> That would be
> html { max-width:1280px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto }
> to keep it working normally on smaller screens, sorry.

But aren't there inferior popular browsers that fail to support the 
'max-width' attribute?

It would be better to use a relative measurement such as em instead 
of px, to allow for it to rescale if the font size is adjusted by 
user preference.  Otherwise, you can have a situation where somebody 
sets their normal text to a large size (due to poor vision or an 
extremely high resolution monitor where pixels are very small) and 
still ends up with it crammed into a fixed-pixel-width canvas.


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