Posted by dorayme on 04/06/07 04:52

In article <57ltogF2da1aaU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
> > In article <57l6loF2dha8nU1@mid.individual.net>,
> > Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:
> >
> >> >>http://www.brightfinance.co.uk/
> >> The columns widths are set in % (of window) with a
> >> total max-width in ems,
> >
> > If this is meant to imply that the cols grow at merely resizing
> > the browser window,
>
> Perhaps you (I mean that collectively, not you personally) don't get the
> max-width concept. :-\ To me, it is a beautiful and elegant solution.

What is there to get? An elegant and beautiful solution to what
is the question.

It is very handy that text enlargement is allowed to grow to take
advantage of the screen's width. This in itself has nothing
whatsoever to do with the css of max-width. But it can be handy
if one wants to make some eye pleasing box to contain the text.
and have that box grow in an ordered manner.

But here you are just concentrating on the notion of text size.
The idea of fluid design for some also carries the notion of a
design that can take advantage of different screen sizes for more
than just this text sizing variation and it is this that has
escaped you in your response to David.

>
> > Another more likely example of a fluid design in this non 'font
> > variable' sense is a thumbnail gallery with a great many pictures
> > that are floated.
> >
> > In your example, there is none of this "taking advantage" in this
> > pure sense I am describing.
>
> Um, the site I pointed to is primarily text,

The subject of things is not some site that you or I happen to
choose to illustrate something or other.

>
> Actually, the comments I've heard so far make me think other people have
> a narrow view of what a fluid design should be. Although the problem may
> really be they don't *know* what it should be, thus they don't recognize
> it when they see it.

Do you understand the desire to design to generally satisfy as
many requirements as possible, not only text variation stuff but
graphical content? 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.
So I would say, B that it is you that is here being a little
narrow and over focused.

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dorayme

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