[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki formatting for wide browsers

[Charlotte Webb]

On 9/28/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's some ASCII art (it was only a matter of time):
>
> MW      |            Top links...........
> Logo    | Contents | Title
> Links   | Contents | Text text text text text | Image
> Links   | Contents | Text text text text text | Image
> Links   | Contents | Text text text text text |
> Links   | Contents |                          | Infobox
> Links   | Contents | Section 1                | Infobox
> Links   | Contents | Text text text text text | Infobox
> Links   | Contents | Text text text text text | Infobox
> Links   |          | Text text text text text | Infobox
> Links   |          | Text text text text text
> etc.
>
> See how now the text is totally unencumbered by contents and infobox? So
> we're actually benefiting from the extra browser width, rather than it being
> a nuisance.

Maybe I'm not seeing how this is much different than the effect of
{{TOCleft}}. I did notice that the "documentation" and the talk page
of that template allege that there is some way to do the same thing
automatically with CSS, but nobody really explains how.

—C.W.