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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/04/07 15:15
David Segall wrote:
> Gérard Talbot <newsblahgroup@gtalbot.org> wrote:
<snip>
>> What is flexible, fluid or liquid design?
>> http://www.html-faq.com/webdesign/?flexibledesign
> At least this site does practice what it preaches however, on my "wide
> screen" monitor, their solution to the problem leaves the bottom half
> of the screen blank. I don't think this is any better than leaving the
> right hand side blank. Of the four sites they reference only one
> <http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/10/desi/> attempts "fluid
> design" and it illustrates why the concept fails.
I agree there are few sites that practice what they preach, but in
defense web authoring is still quite new, and just beginning to shed the
shackles of print orientation. I believe you will see more examples as
the concept sinks in.
> The text is far too
> wide to read comfortably and the menu at the top of the page is
> designed exclusively for a 1024 pixel wide monitor.
Ah, yes I have a large monitor as well, but nobody's got a gun to your
head forcing you to have your browser maximized at all times! I rarely
maximized my browser and I usually have more than one app going at
once...true multitasking. You can also bump your text size up a bit and
it will shorten the effect line length. IE users don't have a hot-key
for adjusting text size and rarely think to customize the toolbar to add
the button so that have a tendency to settle for whatever the browser is
set at.
>> Alt.html FAQ
>> What are the disadvantages of fixed-width design?
>> http://www.html-faq.com/webdesign/?fixedwidth
>>
>> WDG Web Authoring FAQ: Web Design
>> For what screen size should I write?
>> http://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/design.html#screen-size
>
> These two both use the full width of the screen but neither are
> satisfactory at the relatively modest "extremes" of 800x600 and
> 1680x1050 that I have used to test them. Their is ample evidence that
> there is a comfortable width for a line of text and the print media
> solve the problem by using columns. There is no comparable browser
> compatible solution that fits within a strict topic definition of this
> Usenet group.
True, newspapers with newspaper-columns can wrap the text from one
column to the next because they have the advantage of knowing the
dimensions of their page and have a fixed font size. The web is not
paper. It is much easier to scroll up and down then left and right. And
as I said your can always narrow the page by narrowing your browser
which can make reading more comfortable.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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