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ericanderton at yahoo.removeme.com
Wed Feb 28 09:51:40 PST 2007
Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Frits van Bommel Wrote:
> <snip>
>> Yes, the first thing I noticed was that the page should be wider,
>> and use a larger font. It only uses half my screen space with a
>> rather small font on my monitor.
>
> Wrong again. It should have no width set at all. Fixed width layouts on web pages should never have been invented.
>
>> Looking at the source, all sizes are specified in _pixels_. This is
>> typically a Bad Thing for anyone using a higher resolution than the
>> author uses. It certainly is for me...
> <snip>
>
> It's nothing to do with resolution. It's to do with basic accessibility principles and not disabling the means by which browsers implement such principles.
>
> Either specify font sizes in ems, not pixels or points, or don't specify them at all.
>
> Stewart.
For general site layout, I agree. However, for columnar layout of content, fixing the width for content has everything
to do with readability for the sighted - I for one have a hard time reading paragraph after paragraph of text laid out
at over 1000px wide. Granted, I could just resize my browser, but the effect is hardly the same.
The ideal solution is having paragraphs elements that layout such that they create natural (magazine-style) columns
regardless of the dimensions of the page itself. But I have yet to see that happen without constraining the page width,
height or number of columns in some way, without resorting to javascript hacks. ;)
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