From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6487f59679c615d8 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.129.69 with SMTP id nu5mr509085pbb.3.1336060373749; Thu, 03 May 2012 08:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni127800pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] CSS max-width (Was: Ada Reference Manual 2012 in info format) Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 17:52:52 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <82aa1ud0l3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87wr4t8ho9.fsf_-_@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1HXMOjZ/dowJC2KZT+1WaQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-05-03T17:52:52+02:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 03 May 2012 16:26:14 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen = a =C3=A9crit: > 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 corporation= s. = Support in IE <=3D6, requires hacking. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity