[thelist] front end design: liquid design

[Blake]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:02 AM,  <ekm at seastorm.com> wrote:
> And honestly, in the real world?  Front end *developers* are hard pressed
> to find opportunities to use fully fluid design, since *designers*
> generally opt for control (or the illusion thereof) over flexibility.

This is key. The developer is often not in control of the design *at
all*, and must deliver to the expectations of the designers and
others.

Hell, half the time it's difficult enough to get some designs to work
with a flexible amount of vertical content, nevermind looking at
horizontal fluidity.

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Blake Haswell
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