New Layout Wiki4D
Stewart Gordon
smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 28 12:23:41 PST 2007
Pragma Wrote:
<snip>
> 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.
It also has everything to do with unreadability for the sighted, if they have to keep scrolling their screens in a variety of directions just because the designer's browser dimensions don't match.
> 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. ;)
Some would claim that magazine-style columns don't belong on the WWW, but are just a pointless attempt to mimic printed material. Someone once said:
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Fix_the_wrong_problem
"Trying to force a text-flow from one column to another, when the real problem is creating text interesting enough to induce readers to scroll their displays in a presentation based on methods appropriate to the medium instead of those adopted from print. "
Moreover, to read columns on a web page you would often have to scroll down the column to read it, and then scroll up again to read the next column.
But you have a point. Maybe there is a way in which such a thing could be reasonably implemented....
Stewart.
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