Okay, so FINALLY I got around to putting a max-width in the header of
one page, wrapped in @media screen so that printing is still full
width.

After being amazed at how much harder it was to read the same page in
full-screen than in 50em,(*) I thought I'd see whether IE6 could
handle the @media tag. Not much of a surprise: the page was still
full width in IE6. So I tried it in my screen-only style sheet, and
to my amazement that didn't work either.

Thirty seconds on W3schools told me that IE doesn't support max-
width. I know I shouldn't have been surprised, but I am. This isn't
something hard like the box model, this is dead easy stuff, and IE
ignores it. I'm just stunned.

(I did a bit of googling for hacks, but I have no intention of adding
pseudo-javascript like "expression" to my CSS just to make IE happy.
I'm adding an unvarnished max-width to CSS as soon as I make the next
update.)

(*) 50em might still be a bit too wide, but the Web site I make for
my classes has a fair number of screen shots and I don't want to get
too narrow.

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Under Subject: I'm just stunned
Stan Brown wrote:

Thirty seconds on W3schools told me that IE doesn't support
max-width.

Well, this time the information was correct if you realize that this applies
to
- IE 6 and earlier and
- IE 7 in Quirks Mode.
But W3schools is generally unreliable, and it is better to use other
resources, such as
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
for CSS support in browsers.

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In article <hz6Gk.76250$_03.32730@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi> ,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fiwrote:

Under Subject: I'm just stunned
Stan Brown wrote:
>

>
Well, this time the information was correct if you realize that this applies
to
- IE 6 and earlier and
- IE 7 in Quirks Mode.

The Ruthsarian menu system includes javascript functions to implement
min-width under such circumstances. According to the source file, it
comes from here:

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/minwidth/

I would think someone must already have worked out how to do max-width
using the same basic approach!

I include the necessary script stuff inside an IE conditional comment,
as its the only JS on my pages.

But W3schools is generally unreliable, and it is better to use other
resources, such as
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
for CSS support in browsers.

Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:10:55 +0300 from Jukka K. Korpela
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>:
..

But W3schools is generally unreliable, and it is better to use other
resources, such as
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
for CSS support in browsers.

So noted; thanks!

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