This goes out to those who run their blog software with a template that stretches the text to 100% of the browser window.
Please, please consider the reader and change the layout to keep the columns within a reasonable width. I mean, while I like reading certain blogs, I just can't read them from the blog site directly. My eyes literally start hurting after the second paragraph of scanning over 1600 pixels back and forth again and again.
Yes, I could resize my browser window, I could read it through a blog aggregator of my choice, and so forth. That's not the point. The point is that of having a sensible default. I'm pretty darn sure most people prefer reading this kind of a layout rather than this.
(No offense, Len. I like your writing--just not that default layout)
I also found setting the absolute width in your blog bad, Lasse, because the text part didn't fit into the Nokia 9500 browser window ;)
I think I might have solved the problem adequatly by using the <code>max-width</code> CSS setting instead of plain <code>width</code>. This way the width doesn't stretch to fill the whole screen even in a maximised window, but it shrinks as needed in a smaller window.
Yes! Your blog is now clearly more mobile-enabled.
If you want an IE-compatible solution, there are workarounds.
There is a rule in typography that the column width should be around 1,5 of the alphabet size, which is 40-50 letters for the English language.