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Posted by mbstevens on 08/18/06 18:56
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:57:41 +0100, Deryck wrote:
> mbstevens wrote:
>
>>
>> That is because any good template author would reject the idea
>> of all three columns being a fixed width.
>
> Out of curiousity, why?
Open an 800 pixel fixed-width page with your browser. Now grab the bottom
right-hand corner with your mouse. Drag it across until the window is
about 600 pixels wide. That is what some of your visitors will see.
the will have to right-scroll to see across the page. Now drag it
until it is about 1200 pixels wide, if your screen will support it. That
is what some of your other visitors will see. It will be a tiny page in a
block of wasted screen space.
> Your solution
> will only work if the screen size is known in advance and everyone uses
> the same screen size. I could position all 3 columns absolutely but then
> the result would be positioned to the left (or right) of the screen
> rather than centered.
That is only more evil gas hissing up from fixed-width pages.
A page on the web cannot be designed as a magazine page is -- it must
instead be easily usable at any standard browser width. The only real
solution to that problem is liquid layout. Leaving default font size
unset helps, too.
I suggest you also look up about twenty or more back threads on this
newsgroup, and google for "frozen layout", "liquid layout", "flexible
layout", and "accessibility", and "usability". The regulars here have
gone through this too often for most of us to want to thrash through it at
length yet again.
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