Michael Leibson wrote: > I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide > new Mac, yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on > all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design > was effectively spread, horizontally, to fit the (maximized) window.
Don't know how wide the screen on a zillion-pixel-wide new Mac is, but my trusty old win machine provides me with a 3800 px wide screen for browsers if/when I need it. I need nearly half of that screen-area for your page, in any browser, just to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar. That's before adding page-zoom to the equation. > This would have pleased me, were my design fluid -- but it isn't: > it's fixed! 1: your page is full of markup errors... <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/> ...and some of those are serious. 2: background is positioned 50% from the left side - regardless of window size. 3: what Fx version did you test in and what settings were at play? > www.thinkingmusic.ca . Individual elements hold their declared width, but the page as such needs 1650px wide windows to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar. The declared dimensions on paragraphs and parent-less list-items are creating problems... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ml/test_09_0410.html> ...and extra horizontal width all browsers have to cope with. Why not let those elements auto-adjust to their containers? FWIW: it looks like you're attempting to recreate print design on the web, and that rarely ever works well. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
