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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Nov 10, 2004 8:27AM

> This is not a particularly good argument - if you set widths or
> max-widths
> using EM values then you can easily restrict line lengths (in good
> browsers),

But you are assuming that restricting line lengths is a good thing. It isn't
always.

> without affecting small-display devices, resizing will
> then allow
> the container to expand to fit the content regardless of font-size.

But not necessarily fit the browser view-port.

-Darrel