User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-3139726-20101020173231/@comment-1025281-20101025070450

The thing is, the average user does not care about the things experienced users care about. The average Internet user, evidenced by the lack of protest on other websites about fixed widths, simply doesn't need to or want to make the page width wider. The average Internet user, I might add, does not possess the kind of large monitor many experienced users have. My previous comment was directed at experienced users who actually do care about how wide the page is, and experienced users definitely know CSS.