On 2008/10/07 10:57 (GMT+1100) Hedley Finger composed:
On various CSS websites and mailing lists, the terms 'flexible',
'elastic', and 'liquid' are frequently used about layouts. Trouble is,
sometimes these seem to be applied to different things and at other
times are used as synonyms for the same thing. Can anyone enlighten
this newbie with a more or less accepted definition of each?
There are really only two basic types of designs:
1-magazine pages hosted on the web, feigning to be web pages. These sites
have all or most of their containers that have explicit sizes set set in px.
2-real web pages. Strictly speaking, none of these would have container
widths explicitly set in px, but instead would have em or % widths set, or
few or no widths set at all. Most of the flexible, elastic and liquid designs
belong in this group, though some may set some widths in px, while others
none at all. The differences between the three are as much those of opinion
as fact. Usually flexible and elastic are more alike, and less than fully
liquid, such has having overall width constrained to a range that may be less
than the full width of the viewport. OTOH, fully liquid should normally fill
a viewport width totally, similar to a totally unstyled page.
The css-d wiki has a more conventional and detailed description:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FluidDesign
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