Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing])

[Chris Marsh]

> Hmm, I wonder how often I would visit My-Yahoo, eBay and Amazon if they
> forced a left-aligned 720-wide table on me. Aren't liquid tables almost
> a no-brainer with English-ish languages (why would anyone designing an
> AccessibleSite want to force content alignment on me?).

To retain design integrity? To allow a constant user interface whatever
platform/screen resolution? Liquid "design" is (IMHO) a flawed concept when
the differential between available screen resolutions is so great.

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Chris Marsh
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