Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/23/08 12:13

On 22 Jan, 16:13, Travis Newbury <TravisNewb...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> No I completely understand fluid design, I just do not believe that it
> is the way that ALL websites need to be created.

Certainly not. Fluid design is only needed when you don't know the
size of the window relative to the display, the pixel and the readable
font size. Provided you know all these beforehand, there's no need to
be fluid at all.

If you don't know these, then your page _needs_ to be fluid. Maybe
you're obsessed with pixel-perfect image design, so you might decide
to present one _box_ on this page (maybe a large box) and maintain non-
fluid behaviour within this box of known size and constrained
behaviours -- but you still need to be fluid _outside_ this box,
because you just can't control or predict the capabilities of the
device that is going to come to visit your site.

So if you're buiiding rigid intranet apps for kiosk terminals within a
controlled building (maybe museum info-points), then perhaps you
really don't need to worry about fluid design of overall pages. Except
of course when you have to maintain the things, and a year later you
install some with bigger displays and more, but smaller, pixels. Or
you need to worry about accessibility issues and text sizes.

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