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Posted by dorayme on 10/04/06 23:38
In article <n9sdv3-14u.ln1@xword.teksavvy.com>,
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2006-10-04, mithsi@gmail.com wrote:
> > Just wrote an article, let me know if it is helpful.
> >
> > Here is the link to it
> >
> > http://www.bad.example.com
>
> I find it very hard to take seriously anyone professing to offer
> guidance on web design whose own site doesn't scale to the size of
> my browser window.
>
> I'll ignore the issue of multi-posting for now.
I would be interested to hear your opinion on one issue that
relates to this. I had a look at that web design ad and it is
mainly a short text spiel. How would you set out so that it
"scaled" to your browser window, avoiding the pitfalls of text
lines uncomfortably wide, of imposing the need for a user to
fiddle about with browser window size (if they are used to full
screen viewing)?
In my own case I am tending to limit text content width by em
(occasionally by px).
This is not a criticism of you or any endorsement of the web ad
site, it is just that it is is not a trivial issue and in the
case of a bit of text, is it so bad re window size? Goes down to
800 (I would see no reason not to have let it go less actually).
But as for max size... what would you recommend?
In short, the phrase "scale to the size of my browser window" is
not that clear.
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dorayme
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