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Posted by dorayme on 04/06/07 23:25
In article <57mttqF2df4ooU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> >
> > Do you understand the desire to design to generally satisfy as
> > many requirements as possible, not only text variation stuff but
> > graphical content?
>
> You seem to be ignoring the fact that each site's design should be
> geared towards its specific content. A site that is primarily text has
> different needs than a photo gallery. Why would the same design ideas
> apply to both?
>
> > This is a complicated desire and you pointing
> > to something that grows with text size does not cut the mustard
> > in explicating a useful notion of fluid design. It is part of it.
>
> Is a single site supposed to be all encompassing? That's unrealistic. I
> pointed to one example. A different site with a different type of
> content would show different methods for that type of content. Do I have
> to go find a photo gallery for you? I really don't have the time.
>
You seem simply fixated on your example. It completely perplexes
me why you think it is THE main topic. I have no criticism here
of your example. It may well be a fine example of text responding
to being upped and downed and doing well under varying browser
window sizes. I thought we we were talking about bigger things.
I talk about using screen size to advantage for the presentation
of material and you cannot be distracted from one aspect of this.
Perhaps, since you are so focused on text, I can make my point
about an idea of fluid design that involves just text and nothing
but text. One conception of fluid design that I have, perhaps I
cannot speak for others, is a page in which there is a lot of
material and it is readable not only at very narrow window widths
but usefully and pleasantly able to take advantage of the widest
screens and browser sizes quite independently of font-size. And
the simplest model for this is floated boxes in which there is
just text, the bigger the screen the less one needs to scroll.
The truth of the matter is that many website pages do not have
enough fuel in them for the powerful engine of fluid design to be
opened to full throttle. I will say it again, there is more to
fluid design than making a website comfortable for those who want
to change text size.
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dorayme
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