#4282 Increased text size squeezes out article space

[James M. Moe]

Browser: Seamonkey v.1.1.13, viewport approx 850px wide
Screen: 1600x1200
URL: <http://slashdot.org/>

I find the default text size too small to read so I increase it by 120%. I formerly increased it to 150% but the current layout rules make it unreadable at that size.

The left and right columns' widths are apparently set with ems since they increase their width with the increased text size. The same cannot be said for the actual article column, the center column. It gets squeezed out by the expanding left and right columns. At 150% text size the articles have only 3 - 5 words per line. Why is viewport real estate priority given to secondary content?

Also the links to related articles overlap the text at the end of each article sometimes making both illegible. This occurs at any text size.

[James M. Moe]

Layout with text size at 120%