On 2008/04/06 08:21 (GMT-0700) trife22(a)sbcglobal.net apparently typed:
I'm also disappointed most sites i visit only use half my screen
by placing all content in the middle with 2-3 inches of whitespace on each side, but i
guess that has to do with the site not being made for widescreen laptops, anything i can
do to to use all my laptop realestate?
Short term, complain to their owners. Long term, do the same, plus seek out those that
understand the difference between magazine pages hosted on the web for the pleasure of web
designers, and pages actually designed for
web browsers and real web users. For the overabundance of unclued (fixed width designs),
point them to pages like
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/bbcSS.html
If you're really ambitious, for sites you frequent, you can rewrite the CSS on a per
site basis and have Firefox override the site's CSS with yours. Examples of some I
have used are in
http://mrm.no-ip.com/css/share/
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