Oh I agree. I've been *using* something just like this BOX tag in the
new ViolaWWW. Except I've been calling it HPANE, and it has MINWIDTH
and MAXWIDTH constraint attributes. Good idea about using em units--
am currently using pixel units (started as a quick simple experiemnt,
ya know). Yeah, I find it a very simple and useful way to format
things.
Such tags are of course rendering/formatting oriented, but sometimes
when one just gotta have certain formatting behaviour, it's better to
just use this box tag rather than convolute the use of semantic tags
to get certain layout.
-Pei