If you REALLY want something like we had, without JS and non-standard
features, you can try something like:
@media screen and (min-width: 1000px) {
html { max-width: 100ex }
html { max-width: 80ch }
}
The @media queries is a long-standing feature and should just work.
The "ch" isn't supported by IE <=8 and Opera <=20, so if you really
care, you can use doubled declaration: this way browsers that don't
support "ch" will use old "ex". Using "ex" for specifying width is
ugly and it probably should be something like "65em" instead anyway...
--
WBR,
Vadim Zhukov
2018-05-18 4:08 GMT+03:00 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de>:
> Hi Ken,
>
> Ken M wrote on Thu, May 17, 2018 at 08:50:53PM -0400:
>
>> I will probably have to duck and run
>> for suggesting javascript as the answer here...
>
> Precisely. :)
>
>> But for the most part the modern industry standard to make pages
>> scale well across many devices and screen orientations is to use
>> a responsive design library, most notably bootstrap.
>
> We are talking about a simplistic one-column layout here,
> and avoiding that kind of bloat (in particular javascript)
> is among the top four design goals, together with support
> for hyperlinks, support for semantic annotations, and avoiding
> gratuitous presentational differences when compared to terminal
> output (just to avoid misunderstandings, not every difference
> is gratuitous: for example, terminals naturally use fixed-width
> fonts, HTML naturally uses proportional fonts).
>
> But no, javascript is an even worse suggestion than the
> original idea of "meta viewport".
>
> Yours,
> Ingo
>
