Making Light:  Lo heere ::: May 24, 2005, 06:56 PM

Patrick,

I'm here from the open thread, becasue this is more of a style thing,
but you know there was a comment about how three-column format eats up
the real estate.  Here's how it works.

On the Making Light front page, in a roughly 9"x12" Firefox window, I
get columns about 3", 7", and 2" wide.  The front page goes for about
eleven screenfuls.  But the left column is only 7 screens tall, and
the right column is only 3.5 screens tall.  So if the right column
matter were transferred to the left, there would be more room for the
middle column, or I could use a 10" wide window.

People who have narrow monitors get this much worse, because the left
and right columns can't shrink much, so the middle column becomes
very skinny and long, and at the bottom you've got this skinny middle
column with huge margins.

Oops, I've got to leave; more about this later.