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

Shoshannah Forbes xslf at xslf.com
Sat Mar 2 06:25:46 CST 2002


Thai only has brakes between sentences, not between words. That should be
difficult as well.

While Hebrew and Arabic are right-to-left, with RTL layouts, which can be
tricky too, since browsers (along with HTML, CSS and JavaScript) are still
LTR, forcing all sorts of ugly hack to get RTL layouts to work properly
across screen res.

Yes, I love the idea in liquid layouts. In non-English real life, though, it
is a bit more complicated.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shashank Tripathi" <sub at shanx.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:00 AM
Subject: RE: Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob
Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing])


want to force content alignment on me?).
>
> However, note that things get a bit trickier when you work with
> double-byte languages (Chinese/Japanese) because there is typically no
> space between characters, so a liquid design may barf and end in a
> neverending horiz scroll. So it is more prevalent to force table sizes
> this side of the world (Table Communism).
>
>




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