I'm reasonably sure you can set a baseline with proportional, or that there's a preset one: I'm too tired to try to make sense of this link right now, but check this out [link]

I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.

Setting my monitor to 800 x 600 to test, and it looks like it would work.

Now to get rid of this ugly-ass setting. Eep.

I checked out that link Michele and all it's done is convince me that I should leave things alone.

I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.

Do you mean flush on the left and right sides? Is that possible?

I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.

I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.

What's the percentage of people still at 640x480?

A Hecubus percentage.

I'm sorry, I'm really tired and should go to bed before I get even more cranky.

Aha.

Well, that makes sense, then. I mainly asked because 2 years ago, the company I was web-deving for, which tried to keep things as backwards compatable as possible, stopped supporting anything less than 800 x 600.

I can't get my monitor to display anything less than 800 x 600. Heh. This relates to nothing, but means I can't play one of my games on it. Oh well.

Is there any reason for the bottom table to be a table? The one containing the posting form? Would it work as a centered div? Nevermind me, I'm just spewing suggestions.

I think we (and by we, I mean mostly Jon, and for that I apologize) should be able to find a way to not have the font sizes set in stone. In IE, it's often very important for me to resize a web site's text (Opera lets you force it).

I think we (and by we, I mean mostly Jon, and for that I apologize) should be able to find a way to not have the font sizes set in stone.

I agree (except the apologizing part --- not necessary), but it annoys me that it's basically a bug that's preventing some folks from changing the size. Browser preferences should allow one to override a stylesheet.

I'll play with the px to pt thing some more (but maybe not until next week).

The other option is to wait for ita to program personalized stylesheets stored under a user's profile. ;^)

Jon, just to clarify, I meant flush left with the large column where the posts appear. If we had the home/how-to/etc links flush left with that as well, it would look OK design-wise. Or we could get a Hec a new monitor and force the solution....

Mmmm, personalized stylesheets. I want the posts to all have Dublin Core compliant metadata tags! ;-)