Why are forms made so narrow in base theme?

Why are forms made so narrow in base theme?

by Tim Hunt -
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I'm not a graphic designer, so feel free to revert these changes if they destroy your beautiful design, but I think that the width:60% and margin-right:16%; are a waste of space, so I tool them out.

Index: theme/base/style/core.css
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RCS file: /cvsroot/moodle/moodle/theme/base/style/core.css,v
retrieving revision 1.56
diff -u -r1.56 core.css
--- theme/base/style/core.css 4 Aug 2010 09:13:27 -0000 1.56
+++ theme/base/style/core.css 4 Aug 2010 18:32:32 -0000
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
.mform .fitem {width:100%;overflow:hidden;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:1px;clear:right;}
.mform .fitem .fitemtitle {width:15%;text-align:right;float:left;}
.mform .fitem .fitemtitle div {display: inline;}
-.mform .fitem .felement {border-width: 0;width:60%;margin-left:16%;}
+.mform .fitem .felement {border-width: 0;width:80%;margin-left:16%;}
.mform .fitem fieldset.felement {margin-left:0;padding-left:1%;}
.mform .error,
.mform .required {color:#A00;}
@@ -195,7 +195,6 @@
.mform fieldset.fdate_selector label {display:inline;float: none;width: auto;}
.mform .ftags label.accesshide {display: block;position: static;}
.mform .ftags select {margin-bottom: 0.7em;min-width: 22em;}
-.mform .fitem .felement {margin-right:16%;}

/** Browser corrections for mforms **/
.ie .mform .fitem .felement {margin-left:0;text-align:left;float:left;}

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