Posted by dorayme on 09/21/07 03:31

In article
<1190342919.702098.137140@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
windandwaves <nfrancken@gmail.com> wrote:

> > What is your
> >
> > html {
> > overflow-y: scroll;
> >
> > }
> >
> > about?
> >
> > --
> > dorayme
>
> The designer liked to have an ie feel to the scrollbar in FF, go to
> http://www.winsborough.co.nz/contact/ using FF and you may see a
> scroll bar appear even if there is no scrolling.

Nope. Just comes on when it needs to in FF. Be interesting to see
if you could make this page (as an example) fit into 800 wide.
There is little enough (I do not mean unimportant) material here
and if it was not for the graphic constraints of the decorative
images, would easily do so.

I think it is true that while many will use this site fine, it
would be clever if you could work it so that it was a bit more
fluid. There are people who would click the text up a few notches
(I do as the day wears on) and there are people who find it
convenient and/or appreciate it when they can to have the browser
on 800px wide max. Clicking text up gets to too quickly break
this design. Lets give this test a name: How about
"text-click-index", the shorter the range before the design
breaks its graphic design looks, the less good it is qua web
design in the ideal? Yours is not totally bad and not totally
good. But it is something to keep in mind.

What Jonathan said to you about em dimensioning is really quite
important, not just for fonts themselves, but for all spaces
where fonts are related. Please consider those remarks carefully.

--
dorayme

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