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Posted by dorayme on 10/12/06 04:47
In article <452db56d$0$53786$dbd4b001@news.euronet.nl>,
"Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt@hotmail.com> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> > "Nico Schuyt" <nschuyt@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> Yogi_Bear_79 wrote:
>
> >>> I've played with "liquid design" and have decided for this site, the
> >>> best solution would be to build on a 800x600 basis.
>
>
> >> No fixed size but something like
> >> http://www.nicoschuyt.nl/test/div_small.htm
> >> "Liquid design fits in (almost) any window size"
>
> > Fits is not in doubt. But fits and is nice or useful, this is
> > another story. Very fine in abstract. And I am speaking as
> > someone who almost never uses fixed. But it is quite a decision
> > in practice. Take your url example. I personally would not want
> > to see a lot of text that wide on my 20" screen.
>
> But text will almost always be wide on large monitors/windows. Do you
> suggest to use a fixed width standard?
This is not so with good design, my point is that one needs to
put on a thinking cap big time sometimes to solve the various
design problems around this issue. It is not a simple one. I
would hate to read a line of text 16 inches long...
I think that what can happen with pushing the liquid layout
message too strongly is that one then has to turn around to
constrain things in other ways. These other ways may be worth it.
But they are time consuming. And you achieve little benefit for
things like essays that bang on for quite a while, no pics, no
nothing else, just words.
If you want to have a discussion about this, here is a concrete
example, cf
http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/opinion/drugLaws.html
http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/opinion/drugLawsFixed.htm
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Or substitute anything else. There are various irritations
whatever one sets for the width of the main div, px, ems, max,
just width... I fiddle faddle constantly with such things and am
secretly jealous of someone who has no qualms of setting the
width to 600px or 800px and leaving it at that.
My point is where in all this is the liquidity that is so
valuable? There are so many different liquidities... Frankly,
9what i have only set for an example here, the 600px fixed, suits
me and is likely easier cross browser. But I realise it is all
debateable.
[I am surer about the evils of prohibition than liquid design!
:)]
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dorayme
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