[true_religion]

The reason for #1 is because fluid layouts can force text lines to stretch on wide screen monitors. As such, the line becomes harder to read.

[acon]

You can always combine a fluid layout with a max-width for your text. Besides its not the width of the monitor that matters, its the width of the windows and I like my windows narrow, thank you very much. I used to be able to do this, but then they went and broke Readability :-(.

[true_religion]

Interestingly, in the actual example he uses that isn't a fixed with element. Look at the Heroku.com site, its the div with id "accordion". That space to the left of it is created because of the padding of the surrounding div (which is fluid width), and the margin of the accordion div.

Its sister element with id "rightelement" is actually fixed width, but I don't see the issue there since the majority of its contents are image elements and not text.

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That said, I agree with you set a max-width for text only enclosures, and a min-width for enclosures that have image elements.

[glenjamin]

There's no reason the logo couldn't be aligned with the content, while still allowing the header banner to be full width.