STEAM's Response

Ok... so they at least answered my question... Yes, they spoke to me in a politically correct manner like I was an idiotic 4 year old who can drive... but they answered my question.

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Their Response:

Hello,

A staff member has replied to your question:

Hello Cody, Thank you for contacting Steam Support. I apologize for the misunderstanding. The issue you describe is the current intended functionality of the Steam browser. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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I guess the answer to my REAL question... which was simply... "WHY?" is a trade secret or something.

But wait!

Maybe it's a cover up! They know more than they're letting on! The STEAM browser has powers no one knows about! They're actually protecting us from ourselves! A conspiracy of never before seen proportions!

Now stay with me on this one... If it's images were given more than 800 pixels wide it could mean devastation for gamers everywhere! IMAGINE! Images in full screen on computers across the globe! Highly detailed displays of relentless HD quality gaming action! They might sell too much! STEAM servers would be overloaded with too many orders! Too many downloads! A gaming frenzy would take over! Gamers would lose touch with reality! Trillions upon trillions of pixels of pure gaming awesomeness running through the craniums and retinas of hard-core gamers all over the world! The game becomes the reality! What's real anymore!?!?!? It becomes widespread pandemonium!

It starts small...

A Jr. High kid in North Dakota thinks he's Gordon Freeman... he disappears for 8 days until authorities finally find him in the school ventilation system. He's wearing an orange jump suite he got from parties plus and screaming about head crabs in the air ducts. Upon further investigation they find out he's survived off of small rodents he hit with a crowbar he found in his dad's shed.

Weeks later it gets worse...

You hear about a crazy WoW player in England who incinerates 3 innocent people with roman candles while shouting "Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!" He and his accomplice (the emo guy who watched everything while keeping score of damage given/received) are arrested and WoW players across the world unite as they hold a late night vigil to mourn the victims.

And then... the line between the gaming world and the real world disappears all together!

40-Year old men living with their mothers begin roaming the streets at night pretending to be Batman! Millions of Call of Duty fans run around in their underwear wearing army helmets and packing the illegally modified Fully-Automatic M-16 with a silencer, scope, and infra-red laser that usually hides in the bottom of their crazy uncle's closet! Doom fans wear spiked knuckles and punch random walls all over town while shouting "Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!..... I know there's a secret here somewhere!"

OOOOHHH! Thank you STEAM! Thank you for saving us from the savage and brutal gamer within!