Thread:Nobellion/@comment-28083312-20170329054308/@comment-28083312-20170329065432

{{Circ|1 = Are they not? What more would you want to change now specifically? Which classes/dimensions? Of course it’s possible; fixed positions & float rules can get the job done. The question is; do we want do do that? It’s a good thought, but there are several problems that this would cause, & it’s why you don’t see wikis doing this often. Primarily, the moment you shrink down the screen even a little bit the floating rail modules will close in on the central content, where they will either cover up said content or be covered up by it, depending on what overflow rules we set on the modules. It’d also be ugly as sin in Monobook, which does not have so much background space. However, for the sake of discussion, lets say we cast off Monobook; no one uses it anyway. Lets also say that we’ll ignore smaller screens; that’s what Mercury is for after all. Even if we focused solely on full screen stylization, I think it would still be an eyesore. The reason for this is the background; unless we remove it & make the blank background blend in with the Main Page, something that would take some doing, the modules would overlap with the background in a seriously unappealing fashion. Of course, we could just make the rail modules so bloody large that they cover everything up, but we would still have to make them go up as well, to cover up the background that flanks the TopNav; besides looking goofily like Count Dracula’s Cape, that might actually be against the Terms of Use, so that’s no good. If we just bite that bullet of ugliness & make the fixed modules anyway, then that poses another problem; space. It offers the benefit of having content stay in place as you scroll so that you can access it at will, but it also limits the length of those modules to the size of one screen, with less space to place content. Definite heights also makes that some content will be cut off on smaller screens, or some area of the main page will be uncovered on larger screens. Of course we could do relative heights, like, but that would cause the content to be smushed or stretched in an unappealing fashion. All in all it just isn’t a good idea, & it’s why you rarely see anyone trying such things.