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Posted by Sherm Pendley on 08/24/07 13:22
Bernhard Sturm <sturmnixspam@datacomm.ch> writes:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>> On 24 Aug, 11:12, Bernhard Sturm <sturmnixs...@datacomm.ch> wrote:
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>>>> What's "image slicing", and what does that have to do with web design,
>>>> any time this century?
>>> just out of curiosity: how do you do webdesign in this century?
>>
>> By designing for the web, not for paper.
>> Web pages aren't magazine pages.
>>
> Are we talking about the same? This thread is about Adobe FW
> (Fireworks). You might probably not know this product. Check this URL:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/ and read the description
> carefully. FW is the worst application for print related design. And
> slicing doesn't literally mean 'to slice a piece of paper' in this
> particular context. It's a way of cutting out images out of a bigger
> image (e.g. a layout with a logo, and you are slicing out the logo
> only). Sliced images are then exported into your /images/ folder, and
> incorporated into CSS classes as backgroun-image for instance. This
> has nothing to do with print.
The problem here is context. The slicing you're referring to was a very
popular method of constructing fixed-width pages that use tables generated
by ImageReady nested eight levels deep to "control" layout.
The word "slicing" has gotten such a bad name here as a result that a lot
of folks have developed a knee-jerk reaction to it, and equate it with
non-liquid layouts and horrible HTML markup.
It's unfortunate, because slicing doesn't have to mean fixed-width layout,
and markup quality is an entirely separate question. A designer who's aware
of the need for a page to "stretch" when resized can take that need into
account, creating slices in the master image to accomodate that need. Too
many folks blame the tools though, when in fact it's the way those tools
tend to be (ab)used that is the real problem.
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