Brian >All my ~pics have a globally set height, irrespective of the pics original >height. As long as you do not also specify with at the same time the browsers >do a proportionate shrinking. Very good for images and keeps the html for the >~pics pages, which contain thousands, rather minimal, easy to scan and >generically good for most all devices w/o special code.
---~ htp://pics.tgu.ca greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Brian Schott <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 1 November 2013 13:19 subject: Re: [Jchat] Newspaper columns are easier to read than books >Yes, I looked more closely at the Atlantic Magazine page html. I searched for >`width=` and found 121 hits. The first one was as follows and I suspect it is >the key one. <meta id="meta-viewport" name="viewport" content="width=1024" /> >I would not want to adjust the widths of images, for example, btw. >I wonder if a way to handle such html would be by using a tricked out CSS page >that would cover things like tables and content -- whatever that is -- instead >of some other URL. I think CSS follows a strict hierarchy where the nearest >CSS instruction overrides more distant ones. But that hierarchy may mean that >the document itself has the greatest priority, so CSS might not work at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
