Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/02/07 13:46

Safalra (Stephen Morley) wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:31:00 -0600, Bergamot wrote:
>> Safalra (Stephen Morley) wrote:
>>> The problem isn't limited to fixed-width designs. In fluid designs the text
>>> will likely wrap differently if the content area becomes narrower or wider.
>> And that's a problem because...?
>>
>> Rewrapping to fit the available space is how a fluid design *should*
>> work, is it not?
>
>
> Permit me to try to exaplin again: Pages that are dynamically updated
> (through AJAX, for example) may change height *while the visitor is viewing
> them*. If this causes a vertical scrollbar to appear or disappear then
> content may jump (in fixed-width designs) or rewrap (in fluid designs).
> Both effects are undesirable as the result is that parts of the page
> content that haven't been changed jump around.
>

Well then you have to take that into consideration when you design the
page. There are many ways to address the situation, many times the best
solution is approaching the design form a different direction to result
in a similar end. However with such hypothetical question there is not
specific hypothetical answer.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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