[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki formatting for wide browsers

[Magnus Manske]

On 9/28/07, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

You can add
table.infobox { position:absolute; margin-left:102%; z-index:1}

to have infoboxes floating outside the text as well.

Magnus