Posted by Jim Moe on 10/17/07 04:24

On 10/16/07 12:06 pm, Bernhard Sturm wrote:
> [...] I lectured her for about
> half an hour, showing her the page in Lynx and on my mobile phone, but
> she was only like: 'The number of people using such devices in order to
> view a website are close to zero, only geeks use this'... phheee...
>
The Lynx view is what search engines see as well.

>> Correct. She is a graphics designer who has not embraced the realities
>> of the Web medium. She is still stuck in print layout.
>
> I told her that as well. I was like 'As a print oriented graphics
> designer you also have to respect the limitations of the media, you
> cannot design below certain font sizes as people will not be able to
> read it'... but useless..
>
To achieve truly pixel perfect layout for all possible browsers you will
have to provide the page as an image map. Any other choice will not meet
her expectations.

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