On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:12, Linda Worthington wrote:
> Scott Carr wrote:
>
> Is there a reason why we are using width="100%"?  As a designer this
> drives me insane where there 

As an end user, it drives *me* up the wall when pages use fixed widths. I have 
1042 x 768 resolution, the maximum my monitor can do, and it drives me 
absolutely up the wall when I load a page and either have these great ugly 
wide empty bits at the side with text that is too small to read comfortably, 
or the opposite where the page is too wide to fit, and I am forced to scroll 
horizontally to read it.

Setting dimensions as a percentage of the width eliminates these problems 
completely (except for the font size - it is still too often too small).

IMNSHO, setting a fixed width for a column is exceptionally BAD design, 
particularly from the usability perspective.. 

> is nothing on the right side to stop the 
> long flow of one sentence.  If you have no plans for anything on the
> right side then can't we just set the width to 235 for the first column
> and 545 for the second column?  I know, picky... :-)

Keep tables and columns as percentages, please!
>
> Thanks for all of your  hard work!!
>
> Linda

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