----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Chiverton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] First flex app
> On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, Paul Andrews wrote: >> > The GUI also doesn't resize itself to my browser. >> LOL, it's not compulsory! > > Who knows best what size to use ? Me, or some designer I've never spoken > to ? I can feel a very old html website debate coming on. Everybody decides on a minimum size display that they can support well (before the scroll bars move in) and some people will make the display adjust to a variable width and maybe even height. It certainly takes more effort to get that right and from a visual point of view the results may not be what are wanted. Other people take the view that the target audience will have at least an X by Y screen real estate and design for that. Seems to me that both viewpoints are valid and while you may not like fixed width/fix size design, it does have good reasons behind it. On some projects I've been told what sizes to use, others not. If you are deploying an application on an intranet you may have the luxury of knowing the corporate standard, similarly you may be designing for bespoke hardware. The OP is doing what many html web designers do and gone for a fixed width. I haven't checked the html. It would be reasonable to suggest floating the page in the middle of the layout rather than to the left. I'm not saying either camp is right or wrong, but I am saying it's wrong to say that one way or other is the only way. Usually the designers come to me and explain why that particular layout should have the text one pixel to the left and it's very obvious that without that adjustment the design just looks awful.. Paul > -- > Tom Chiverton > Helping to administratively incentivize front-end meta-services > on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
