Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 10/08/24 11:25

Seen on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, rf had said:

> > I suspect you are trying to control too many things. Simply leave
> > out most of your css (line-height, the width of that center div)
> > and let the browser figure things out. It's quite capable of doing
> > so.

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Kim André Akerø wrote, seen on
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

> That's how I received the material from the layout
> designer. I just puzzle the pieces together (and that's one heckuva
> jigsaw puzzle, I tell ya). Precision placement is what it is.

"Precision placement" doesn't happen via HTML and CSS, in a WWW
context.

Based solely on what you are saying, without looking at any URLs, I'm
inclined to support the previous contributor, rf, and advise you
("you" collectively) that better results can be expected by discarding
ideas of "precision placement" in a WWW context. Designing for
flexibility is only logical - since flexibility is what the WWW
browsing situation does anyway. So either capitalise on it and
exploit its benefits - or condemn yourselves to endless frustration.

The actual page works better on Lynx, than it does with text zoomed
on Mozilla. I can't help feeling that there's a message in that
observation.

(I don't suppose I'll get any thanks for this answer, but it's
the way things are on the WWW anyway, deezyners or no deezyners.)

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