[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki formatting for wide browsers

[Magnus Manske]

On 9/28/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Jens Frank <jf at mormo.org> wrote:
> > If the line is too long for you to read it easily, just make your
> > browser window smaller. The problem with most blogs is that they don't
> > have a maximum column width, but a fixed one - making it really hard to
> > read the page with small screen sizes.
>
> Ok, apparently I wasn't sufficiently clear. I'm not asking for suggestions
> to improve my experience with MediaWiki - I'm wondering how we can improve
> MediaWiki for end-users in general.
>
> Also, rather than making the browser itself narrow, I'm suggesting that we
> can take advantage of the extra width to improve layout, but without
> increasing linelength.

Try this:
#content { width:1024px; }
div.tright { position:absolute;margin-left:100%; z-index:1}

Replace "1024" with whatever px/em you want.
Note that large right-floating thumbnails might extend outside the
visible screen.

Magnus