"On some very large browsers this means reading a line 15 inches across--very difficult to do. And it plays havoc with any images suspended in the page."

Not if the page was _designed_ to auto flow - as per the HTML specs. Most problems of this type are caused because the page designer rarely if ever looks at the page on anything but their own screen.

Another problem is when people can see the graphics on their own PC, but nobody else can - know why? :-)

Well, if you have all these nice links to the graphics on YOUR HD, and don't upload the graphics to the web server, and modify your code to point to there - no none else can reference the graphics on THEIR HD.... :-)


"If you let your page squish around at 100% then it is always going to look a bit funny to some of your viewers."

Only if you had a very limited fixed idea of how the page was going to display - the HTML specs DEMAND autoflow - most people forget that... as per my PMs to Mary ... >:->

"Look at this Mudcat page. The HR (horizontal rule) between each message is set to 100% so if you have a large window opened on a big monitor it goes from one side of the page to another."

The bottom one of the pair is - the other one above the little table there is set to a lesser percentage.

"the lines would be difficult to read because of their length."

I prefer to have wide lines - I'm an exceptionally fast reader and can read whole long lines at a glance - but I suppose there are others who can't... I go crazy trying to use other people's screens that are set so small - my current desktop has no background image - there are nearly 400 icons on it... :-) My screen is set to 1000+ pixels x 700+ (I lose a bit for the tool bars) - I often have open a dozen or so browser screens cascaded as well as Eudora, Mailwasher, the Mushclient, System monitors... etc

Robin