Posted by Michael Laplante on 11/05/61 11:46

"Jose" <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in message
news:L4J5g.669$zR3.260@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...

> Do not design for an 800x600 viewport. Design for an arbitrary viewport,
> and let your design flow smoothly whatever size of screen your visitor
> has, or deigns to release to you.

I don't think that can be done in strict CSS unless:

i. the site is so simple (one to three columns with a banner across the top
sort of thing) that it could just as easily have been designed in a table
for all its simplicity;

ii. the site is extremely robust and sophisticated because the designer is a
CSS black belt

I've seen lots of examples of (i). I've never encountered an example of (ii)
and would love for someone in this NG to point me to such a site so I can
study it.

Every site I've ever been to eventually "breaks down" under some condition.
Graphics start to overlay text, text boxes spill into each other, etc or --
at the other extreme -- start jumping off to extremes until the site looks
odd.

Look at CSSZenGarden. Those sites validate and visually they look gorgeous,
but they will break down under differing window sizes, fonts, etc.

The attitude some here have expressed -- any site that breaks down in some
fashion is poorly designed -- is fallacious UNLESS it's due to invalid code
(my problem right now).

> http://www.flying20club.org
> I do not use CSS

!!

> However, I have endeavored to make the site fluid,

Cheating -- that's easy to do with tables, or CSS columns. I could do that
years ago. In this ng though, anything less than CSS for anything other than
tabular data is considered not on.

Taking the p*** outta you a bit. Some of those award-winning sites use
tables, probably for the very same reason you do. As I mentioned in my
earlier post my "brute force" method for printing also uses tables as there
doesn't seem to be a way to easily do what I want with CSS.



M

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