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On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
PJ Eby wrote:

Weird - I have the exact \*opposite\* problem, where I have to resize my window because somebody \*didn't\* set their text max-width sanely (to a reasonable value based on ems instead of pixels), and I have nearly 1920 pixels of raw text spanning my screen.

If you don't want 1920-pixel-wide text, why make your
browser window that large?

Not every tab in my browser is text for reading; some are apps that need the extra horizontal space. �That is, they have more than one column of text or data -- but no individual column spans anywhere near the full width. �(Google Docs, for example, shows me two pages at a time when I'm reading a PDF.)