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Need some max-width to whatever the average screen was back in 1999.

True story, I re-uploaded a website that I wrote in 1999, only now I discover that my header was never centered, if was just floating left. It's the only thing that look off, everything else is working perfectly. HMTL/CSS/JS is really a stable stack for the computer field.

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800 pixels was common screen width in 99. Even then it was not considered good practice design-wise to allow text to run the full width like it did in the mid 90s! No max-width, it had to be constrained with tables.

Yep agree it's a stable stack. I have a few archived sites I made in the 90s that work fine in today's browser, rollover JS buttons and all. My disdain for IE is visible in code. I was a Netscape guy for sure!

  if(navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 3")== -1) {
    imageObjectSupported = true; // this line only executes in browsers that
    support  Javascript 1.1 except of course for IE3, which thinks it supports
    Javascript 1.1, but doesn't.
  }

The paper letter from the 19 hundreds is also still working perfectly, just a little bit dusty and yellowed.

I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this simple bookmarklet found here: https://maya.land/bookmarklets/readable/

Centered max-width without going all out reader mode.

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