--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Glow <glowvirt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I hear what you're saying regarding fixed widths and wide screens > (like a postage stamp on a coffee table), but that said, one thing > I wonder about long-term with fluid layouts and increasing screen > size is how to scale content when you've got someone using a gigantic > monitor (can you visualize one-line articles stretching across three > feet of screen real estate?)
This is exactly why 'hybrid' layouts, IMO, need to be developed to cater for the problem trio of line-length, variable width, and variable text size. For example, I've tried to achieve a readable variable width on my homepage with the use of fixed-width (relative to font-size, of course) floats. The wider the browser window, and the smaller the text size, the more 'columns' are displayed. There's a short write-up here: http://www.fiveminuteargument.com/blog/a-flexible-homepage-layout This is the kind of thing that, I hope, the column properties in CSS3 will make a lot cleaner (one disadvantage is that box heights have to be fixed too, and that's difficult to do nicely for variable text length). I'm sure there are other mechanisms in which properties and layout techniques can be combined, as 'hybrid' layouts, to address all 3 problems. I think either David or Georg posted a good message to that effect here a few months ago. - Bobby ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
