[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/06/2007 10:18:03 PM:

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:31:45AM +0100, Johann-Christoph Jacob wrote:
> > Hi,
> > a long time listener, first time caller here.
> > I can absolutely relate to James' problem.
> > A screencapture is at:
> > http://www.mechatron.org/lesswatts_ffox2008_1920x1200_scaled.jpg
>
> Yes - the problem is that the CSS file of that site
> (http://www.lesswatts.org/style.css) has fallen into the trap of assuming
> that all screens are equal and so it uses px as a size unit way to
happily.
>
> I get a slightly to wide page and looking at the CSS that is
understandable
> since my browser is 800x1200 and some of that goes for window decorations
> and they specify that the page is at least 807 pixels wide.
>
> I really do not want to know how it would look on a mobile phone.
>
> /MF

I'm no web language expert, but I think the problem must be more than that.
My browser window is about 1200 pixels wide, and I get blank columns of
~20%,
of the screen width either side of the displayed page, then a menu at the
left,
and the article text displayed wider than the area it gets displayed in.
If I
shrink the width of the window, the blank columns get narrower, until
finally
the text area is smaller than the window.  The text display never
changes...

I suppose I can understand how this sort of thing happens in the Windoze
world,
where basically everybody uses the same browser on a low-resolution
display, but
this is supposedly a linux-specific site.

James

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