> While I appreciate your time, I was not looking to change the way the
> page reacts to the viewport, just whether or not there is a better way
> to do what I was already doing and if it is possible to have IE7 and 8
> react the same way as capable browsers.
>
I think Lasko got it dead right. You can also try to investigate the
possibility of creating two divs of 50% each like this:
<div id="header">header</div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="left">Left</div>
<div id="right">Right</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>
The DIVS left and Right would be left floated to make them display side by side
and the width of each is 50%. The rough and dirty CSS looks like this:
#wrapper {
width: 900px;
height: 90%;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
height: 100%;
}
#left {
width: 46%;
margin: 2%;
float: left;
}
#right {
width: 50%;
float: left;
margin: 2% 0;
background-image: url('http://www.mlinc.com/tl-test/Bokeh.jpg');
}
#footer {
clear: left;
width: 900px;
height: 5%;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: center;
}
The CSS and layout can be improved dramatically but I leave it to you to think
about this. Lasko's method is pretty neat.
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