(06-26-2014, 11:08 AM)Zhavi Wrote: I think for me, the reason why I want to make mine all fancy has to do with one thing that really, really irks me on any page: I cannot stand it when words are left free to fill up most of the screen. I am used to reading books, where the formatting keeps it nice and neat so I'm not having to follow text some fifteen to twenty inches side to side. If there was a default that limited how far the text could go horizontally, I'd be less inclined to play with tables!
On my home PC (2560x1440), MediaWikis get a little... tricky to read.
So, I'm certainly sympathetic to this, especially with the small font size (10pt sans-serif, as opposed to Wikipedia's more-or-less 10.75pt sans-serif). One MediaWiki I run for a client actually uses, per their request, 10pt Calibri, which is terrifyingly small. 
One thing I've considered doing is remaking the skin for the wiki -- or, rather, changing it to the new MediaWiki standard (Vector) and using CSS overrides to set the background, reformat the sidebar, etc. I could also change the size of the body div to make it not expand forever on high resolution screens and set the font to something a bit easier to read (Segoe UI, or possibly something in the 11-12pt serif area). It's a thought, at least.
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