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Nathan Phillip Brink 11-Nov-14 9:38am View    
In fiddling around with DOM Inspector and Stylish, it appears that the minimum width on most pages comes from the 728px-wide banner ad—which isn’t fluid. And probably mostly because ad brokers purposefully give little control over ad shape and placement to websites. Hrm…

You can see how the user prefs/logout bar is willing to get small as long as stylish tells the ad to be smaller. The following snap is with the browser window just skinny enough to cause the horizontal bar to appear: http://imgur.com/0pgjQy2 . Sorry, you can’t see the ad because I use noscript, but its placeholder was still taking up space. You can see my ugly stylish sheet here: https://gist.github.com/binki/c97680627258fa037637 .

Sorry, I’m not going to spend too much more time on this. Also, codeproject is definitely not the only website that likes to create a horizontal scrollbar when my browser window is snapped to fill one-half of the screen, I was probably just venting my frustration against the world directly on codeproject this time :-/.
Nathan Phillip Brink 10-Nov-14 14:51pm View    
I tried your idea on deleting cookies. If I access http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/ask.aspx?PageFlow=Fluid with a new empty browser profile, the bottom of the page underlines “fixed” instead of “fluid”. If I log in, then “fluid” is underlined but I can’t tell the difference in the page layout.

Then I tried visiting other pages on the site. Apparently ?PageFlow=Fluid works on the http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/Latest.aspx page but not on the question asking page. On http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/Latest.aspx, clicking the fluid/fixed actually toggles it and I can see the fixed width failing to fill up my whole browser’s viewport when made wider. I even tried Fluid layout in IE and it renders a horizontal scrollbar just like SeaMonkey (Mozilla) even after getting the layout to be set to Fluid.

How are you getting the textbox on the questions ask page to be fluid? I think I might just write a userstyle to remove the extraneous min-width floating around somewhere…