Posted by David Segall on 04/06/07 04:35

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
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>What Gutenberg was doing was printing on *paper*. Paper has absolute
>dimensions,
Maybe, but those that produce print have learned that what looks good
on a billboard usually fails to convey the message if used on a
postage stamp. They know that even changing the orientation of a fixed
size page from portrait to landscape requires a new print layout.
> a webpage does not! It is a different media. The same
>transition when television was invented, the early shows tried to do tv
>like radio, but it didn't really work. The "shows" had to change. Same
>here with print media to web
Agreed. People insist on arguing that a web site can be made to look
good regardless of the Window size using only HTML and CSS. I do not
believe this is possible. HTML and CSS are relics of the print media
and until designers make proper use of the computer's intelligence we
will continue to see web pages that are _designed_ for a fixed window
size even if they shrink or expand to fill the available space.

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