Posted by Daryl on 11/29/06 00:06

This link is a perfect example of my rebuttals to the critics. It stays
fluid as the window size decreases but at some point it realizes how
ridiculous the content will look and it begins to require h-scroll.

"Kevin Scholl" <kscholl@comcast.DELETE.net> wrote in message
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> Neredbojias wrote:
>> To further the education of mankind, "Daryl" <lyradf@yahoo.com>
>> vouchsafed:
>>>> What happens if I'm doing more than one thing on my desktop and have
>>>> my browser window set to 650 px wide? Will I have to do a horizontal
>>>> scroll to read each line of text?
>>
>>> Your window will display the left most content and you would have to
>>> scroll to the right to view the rest. Im not concerned about that. That
>>> is pretty typical of all web pages.
>>
>> Au contraire, mon ami. Today's "typical" web page is fluid and text
>> flows with the size of the matte. However, yes, a certain minority
>> percentage is archeolithic.
>
> That's a rather subjective view of "typical". There is no concrete right
> or wrong when it comes to fixed-width vs. fluid.
>
> http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200611/resolution_vs_browser_size_vs_fixed_or_adaptive_width/
>
> That said, the willingness of the OP to allow horizontal scrolling for a
> user running a maximized browser at 800x600 is a bit disconcerting.
>
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