Liquid Layout (Was RE: [thelist] Tip o'the day (x2))

[John Handelaar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Charles F. Johnson
> Sent: 18 February 2001 15:12
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Tip o'the day (x2)
> 
> for static designs, CSS is great for layout. it creates clean, 
> easy to read
> code, and not much of it. but tables are still the only way to get liquid
> designs that don't rely on javascript.

<alert type="heresy right ahead">

Apart from the ability to fill screen space entirely
for its own sake, and to create bodies of text
far too physically wide to be comfortably legible,
what is the point of 'liquid' layout anyway?

Assuming that your accessibility requirements are
adequately covered in other ways, I mean?

Sorry, but I *really* don't like liquid layouts.
I use a 1024x768 (laptop) screen for work, and
even evolt.org is bloody difficult to read because
People Can't Read Wide Columns Of Text. This Lesson
Was Learned In Print Centuries Ago Which Is Why
Newspapers Have Column Layouts.  Just because
something *can* be done, doesn't mean it should.

[dons flame-retardent suit]

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