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Subject: Censorship in php
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

I know I will get my head chewed off, but I'm going to speak out anyway ...

In a world where 'fixed width' web style is pushed as the standard, the PHP site 
has always been a breath of fresh air with it's full width style. It used to 
work nicely on wide format monitors which I'm sure many of you use on your 
development systems. If the 'change of style' has been discussed anywhere, I've 
not seen that discussion but that is not unusual nowadays as all these little 
cliques seem to work off-line and then dump the results on us. The new 
'feedback' area seems to be hosted elsewhere anyway?

The 'style' of having voting only FOR something without the ability to object, 
and the blocking of the alternate view is simply not acceptable. How many votes 
would 'hate it' get if it was not blocked?

But what is even more irritating here is the fact that we have the technology to 
provide all of the flexibility for both styles of working to co-exist. That is 
what PHP is all about, so why when all of the content is dynamic anyway do we 
have to live with what is perceived by a few as better. Currently I'm having 
problems with something which was never a problem ... changing between 
sub-domains also needs a change of font size to make the site usable on my 
3840x1200 desktop.

PLEASE can we have 'theme' as a selection in the same way that 'language' can be 
changed. This is simply a lot more practical than the attempt to create a 
'responsive' style that is a compromise on virtually all desktops :(

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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