User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-737801-20100929201056

I just feel like I should point out that we got one answer, the fixed width of articles thanks to Susan Taylor. Since it is on page 14 or 15, when I posted this comment, I'll put it here for everyone to read, rather than having people go through the pages.

"One of the main benefits of fixed width is that it allows improved compatibility with many screen sizes and resolutions and it also means that everyone is designing all aspects of content for the same number of pixels. Designing for fixed width allows everyone to see all the elements of a wiki including customized design and customized content accurately. In Monaco the way these elements are viewed can vary widely from monitor to monitor and fixed width helps resolve that issue."

So we have at least one serious answer to one of the commonly asked questions. I don't know about any of you, but that at least has said volumes more than previous postings on this topic.

EDIT: I sitll don't like the fixed width, and think it is way to small, but at least that said more than previous postings. I think Monaco has the right idea here, expand it to the full width of the viewing screen so text, pictures, and infoboxes don't get rammed together. Expand the width, is that so much to ask. The main pages are 960px, so that is what the articles should be at least.