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Posted by Slick50 on 12/20/06 00:30
haha, got a good chuckle out of this one :D
"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-36E590.14484419122006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <dMHhh.7873$ya1.7209@news02.roc.ny>,
> "Slick50" <spam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't mean to imply that it is better. I am just trying to learn how to
>> do
>> different things.
>>
>> When I resize the window, my horizontal list spills over into a new line
>> which looks bad to me. If you are willing to explain the right technique
>> here, I'm all ears. Reduce the font size? Less list items? Neither of
>> those
>> seem like the right thing to do in this case.
>
> You have two main choices, between fixing it so that
>
> (1) People have to scroll sideways to look at your list. They get
> to see only some of the list when they could be seeing the lot.
>
> or
>
> (2) The functional one, users don't have to scroll sideways, they
> don't have to stare at half a list (how good a look is that?).
>
> By selecting the right css, with sufficient padding and margins
> etc, it is not so bad a look when these things wrap. I do
> understand your concerns but you can console yourself with the
> not too fanciful idea that most people will be viewing on 800px
> wide or more and all will be fine, just a few will see it
> wrapped, you are doing them a favour.
>
> --
> dorayme
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