On 05/06/2009, at 6:32 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:05:35AM -0700, Glow wrote:
>> I normally work with fixed layouts because I find that I have more
>> control over the ultimate appearance of the design. But lately I'm
>> becoming more interested in fluid or elastic layouts because of their
>> greater accessibility.
>>
>> So, just out of curiosity -- what's your particular preference and
>> why?
>
> I'm not sure what distinction you make between "fluid" and
> "elastic", so
> I'll just answer "anything but fixed". Screens are getting both
> larger
> and smaller these days, so any fixed width you may choose will
> either be
> a narrow strip down a widescreen HD display, a morass of horizontal
> scrolling on a handheld device, or (more likely) both.
>
> Also keep in mind that HTML/CSS presentation is ultimately decided by
> the browser - the user can disable CSS, apply cusom stylesheets to
> override your CSS, use a screen reader, etc. - so any "control over
> the
> ultimate appearance" that a fixed width may provide is little more
> than
> an illusion anyhow.
>
> --
> Dave Sherohman
>
Hi Glow,
It's got to be fluid for me, because it makes things easier for the
user. They don't have to resize browser, play with settings, feel like
they are looking at something from the dark-ages or that side
scrolling is a web 2.0 trend! However i feel that it is harder to do
fluid and elastic (by elastic I take it that you mean; the main
container, possibly one or two other containers are fluid but one or
two might be fixed width) so it is a tricky choice, depending on the
deadline or how much you care about that website. I generally choose
fixed because it is easier for me, and I am primarily a designer so
rounded corners and funky backgrounds are more easily achieved by
background images rather than floating corners and repeating images
that can deal with resizing. I should make the switch though.
The only thing that is holding me back from always working in fluid is
font-sizing. I really don't understand percentages, I am used to
working in pixels. My first website was fluid and all I can remember
about designing for fluid was setting max-width and min width (I think
hacks had to be made), plenty of <clear divs and lots of cool things
you can do with fixed position objects as you resize the page. The
result was much better than if I had gone with fixed.
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Anyone got any good guides, links?
cb
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