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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] CSS max-width (Was: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info
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Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 17:34:00 -0500
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"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote in message 
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Le Thu, 03 May 2012 16:26:14 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
a �crit:

>> Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>>> I'd prefer to bound the maximum column width -- but
>>> that's not a possibility in CSS 1 or 2.
>>
>> Isn't that what the "max-width" attribute does?
>
>Not supported by Internet Explorer, up to version 6 (later versions are 
>OK), which is still widely in use in the industry and others corporations. 
>Support in IE <=6, requires hacking.

Thanks. I know it didn't work when I was laying out these pages; back then 
we had to support IE 5 and Netscape 7 and Firefox 1, all of which had 
problems with "fancy" CSS. We don't have to support the oldest of these 
anymore, but surely IE 6 still needs to be supported.

At some point soon, I ought to go back and retest all of the styles to see 
if any improvements can be made (the last major reworking of the styles was 
in early 2006). But I wouldn't change the layout that much; we don't want 
complex or fancy for this reference material.

                                            Randy.