Posted by dorayme on 02/15/07 20:50

In article <V-ydnX3BL-N12UnYRVnyvgA@pipex.net>,
"Brian Cryer" <brian.cryer@127.0.0.1.ntlworld.com> wrote:

> > Why? You just use up valuable real estate where you could be displaying
> > content. Most of us are used to [whatever it is you want to put there]
> > scrolling with the page.
>
> You are probably right. I was interested in whether it could be done, but I
> accept the arguments against doing it - so I probably won't.

Before accepting this too quickly in respect to fixed
positioning, perhaps consider that it is not a good _general_
argument. It certainly applies to some things. You gave just an
example in your op, there are other examples, like a left
navigation bar, a neat vertically economical top horizontal
navigation strip that _could_ be very handy to have visible at
all times.

The difficulties of cross popular browser implementation -
without using frames (which have other unrelated problems) - are
a good reason to consider it is not worth using fixed. So too is
something not mentioned so far. Some people report a jerkiness in
the scrolling as a side effect. This also is a good argument
against.

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dorayme

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