Posted by mrcakey on 01/23/08 16:54

George W Bush wrote in message
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> Not to start another war, but....
>

;-)

.......

I think we all might be wasting a lot of keypresses and bandwidth on this
issue. Perhaps people have different agenda and we should just agree to
disagree.

My own two cents:

Letting the user's browser control so much of the layout is a nice goal -
user's font, user's screen size, maximum accessibility etc., but while it's
appropriate for some sites, people get paid an absolute fortune to work on
the aesthetics of a company's branding (aesthetics being distinct from
design). These people know what they're doing - there are combinations of
white space and visual elements that work and combinations that don't. It's
wrong to castigate these people for wanting a site laid out the way they
specify. The only way to ensure this is to use a rigid layout. If I have a
three column layout with divs floated left and right and the content in the
middle is relatively sparse, it's going to look absolutely abysmal in a
browser stretched out to 1400px plus isn't it?

+mrcakey

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