Stas,

:: but how do you know which is the right width? Think of different
:: browsers/platforms/screen sizes/

That's exactly what I was thinking about.  :-)

:: The problem is the site is autogenerated, you cannot and shouldn't do
:: manual adjustments like padding with nbsp. The aim is to be able to drop
:: in any document in "any" format and it'll automagically fit into
:: the site.

I don't see the problem.  My WYPUG site is also 100% dynamic.  I developed
using IE6 on Windows and thought everything was great.  I tested with IE on
the Mac - still great (once I'd found a transportable font combination),
then I tested with NS6 - and it all fell apart.  The non-breaking spaces
(inserted automatically by my script) pulled it all together.  I haven't yet
seen it with Konqueror or NS on *nix, but I have Linux users and haven't had
any negative feedback.  The spaces are obviously invisible and don't seem to
have any detrimental effect whatsoever, regardless of the length of content
I publish.

To summarise, the non-breaking space solution works.  If you find an
alternative that has the same effect please let me know as I'd implement it
myself on WYPUG

:: > :: I think that this problem can be fixed by making the 'where
:: I'm in the
:: > :: site' widget bar of a fixed size? Or is it a bad idea?
:: >
:: > Bad idea - what happens at different resolutions?  Horizontal
:: scroll bars at
:: > low res and masses of whitespace at high res.
::
:: Well, too bad stylesheets/html don't have a concept of something like
:: width="at least 30%" or something like that, so you could let the pages
:: to autogrow (and add the horizontal scroll bar) when there is a very
:: wide content but keep the minimum width for empty or narrow
:: content pages.

I agree totally - maybe in the next revision eh.  Web-designers are well
used to work-around solutions by now.  All but very basic CSS is still a
non-starter if you want to guarantee cross-browser capability.

Kindest regards,

Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator
West Yorkshire Perl User Group
http://wypug.pm.org/


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