225678 - Feature-Suggestion: Ignoring the widths in css-files should be possible.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Soliman.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

Moin Moin.
As I do not know, where else to enter a suggestion (no link on bugzilla hinted
to one), I am placing it here:
I just wanted to ask (in order to get rid of 8^)... these nearly empty webpages,
optimised for 800*600Pixel displays), whether future mozillas (or is it
mozillae) could offer a possibility to ignore arbitrary parts of a style-sheet
(in the case stated above the "	width: 610px; " flag from line 46 of "ArialBdV.css")
, similar to what mozilla offers for ignoring the background-colours (By the
way, how about a possibility, maybe via view-menu, to display the
backgroung-images despite of ignoring the background-colours.).
_Tschuess,
__Michael.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://bundderversicherten.de/verstipps/rente.htm
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Actual Results:  
Display of a webpage (Please do not mind the German text. It would work
similarly for pages like http://www.sis.com/hyperstreaming/tech_01.htm ) using
just a third of the available window-width.

Expected Results:  
Ignore useless 8^0000000000 page-width-restrictions (I do not even understand,
why the pages' designers tend to use them) by expanding the display to the
window-width (For tables it could rescale the column-widths by a faxtor of
max(1,window-width/web-page's--table-width-restriction), similar actions could
apply to font-rescalings.).

Comment 1

[Malcolm Rowe]

Ignoring all widths in CSS is already possible: place '* {width: auto !
important;}' in userContent.css. see 
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html for more information.

Detecting which are 'useless' widths that you might want to ignore and which 
are important isn't something that the browser can realistically do, nor can it 
easily calculate shrink-to-fit widths via CSS. Accordingly, marking this bug 
WONTFIX (really, CANTFIX). Please log the background image issue as a separate 
bug (after you've checked for duplicate reports, of course).