- From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 08:28:47 PST
- To: www-html@w3.org
> >Only if I can turn it off! I choose the size of my windows. I very, very, > I agree that the user should have the possibility to turn of window sizing. > but I might have an other solution. How about adding an attribute to the > body tag something like: > <BODY MAXRIGHTMARGIN="472"> > This would not resize the window but would just render the page as if it > was a 472 wide, leaving the right hand of the page blank. Now if the user > has a smaller window than 472 the browser will render it as usual. Same comment. The reason I choose the size of my windows carefully is so that it matches the font to produce a comfortable length line to read. Screwing with that makes documents harder to read. I notice people abusing BLOCKQUOTE to get indents on body text (especially on the browsers I prefer for longer texts, as they render BLOCKQUOTE as italic); this wouldn't be any different. Yes, CSS will let authors change margins. It will also let me override the authors choices. > Yes off course, but not for everything in every situation. > Sometimes you want more control over layout to add meaning to the message. Standard answer number 3261: If that's the case, use a medium suitable to your message. Wanting to control the margins in HTML is akin to wanting to control the bliink rate of printed text. <mike
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