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

John Handelaar john at userfrenzy.com
Wed Feb 27 03:44:01 CST 2002


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> Subject: Re: Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob
> Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing])
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> let's see if you can guess what pisses me off more -- liquid text that
> flows right out to the width of the browser window (or to, say, a nice 80%
> or something), so that it *might* cause long, hard-to-read lines of text
> *IF* my browser window were fully maximized, which it isn't always... or a
> web page that *forces* me to maximize my browser window to avoid scrolling
> horizontally because the designer thinks he or she knows better than i do
> what the best text width is...

This is why I still do 'em at 600px width, see...

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