On 2010-09-30, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are >> ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I >> wouldn't swear to that). >> >> For example, look at this page: >> >> ??http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 >> > > I'll admit that a couple of times I've found this frustrating but not > enough that I'd ask anyone to change things. > > I think the frustration, candidly, is that the web page programming > doesn't allow me to narrow the page as much as I might like and still > read the text.
Exactly -- I'd like to be able to narrow the browser window at least to the point where it fits entirely on the screen (and it's a 21" screen). > Sometimes I just want the browser to cover 1/2 the screen, so that > might be 600 pixels or so. Or maybe this is a Firefox thing, not > sure. > > Anyway, I understand your point. Oddly, there are people who don't seem to see the minimum line width issue, and the paragraphs actually get re-wrapped when the browser window is changed. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Somewhere in Tenafly, at New Jersey, a chiropractor gmail.com is viewing "Leave it to Beaver"!