Liquid layouts and holy warfare (WAS RE: [thelist] Jakob Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing])
Chris Marsh
chrism at puffofsmoke.net
Tue Feb 26 17:22:01 CST 2002
> 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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