HI, Just found an article about this: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/02/fixed-vs-fluid-vs-elastic-layout-whats-the-right-one-for-you/
cb On 05/06/2009, at 11:01 PM, Bobby Jack wrote: > > --- 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
