[thelist] Liquidity

Jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Sat Aug 12 19:02:39 CDT 2000


<ol>,

:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
: From: Oliver Lineham <oliver at lineham.co.nz>
:
: i mean, what would you call a 100%-wide table that
: has its two side cells empty but set to 10%?
:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

it depends on whether or not the 10% on either side looked like it was part
of the design or part of the underlying background.  to me the determination
of whether a site is ice, jello, or liquid is in what the layout looks like,
not the underlying html.  if i resize my window and it stays the same it's
ice.  if i resize it and it always *fills* the window it's liquid.  if i
resize and it resizes but still maintains some padding, then it's jello.

if you think of the browser window as a container, then the words ice,
jello, and liquid make more sense.  with nothing to contain it, liquids flow
all the way to the sides.  ice doesn't flow at all, in fact it pushes out of
the container (provided the container is weaker) if the container is smaller
than the piece of ice.  jello on the other hand is somewhat solid, somewhat
liquid.  it will lazily stretch to a certain point, never quite filling the
container, unless the container shrinks down to the point where the jello
can no longer be compacted.

hope this clarifies,

.jeff

name://jeff.howden
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