From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: "Stretchy" vs. Fixed-width |
Date: | 2004-11-22 17:58:19 |
Message-ID: | 200411220958.19991.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Josh, Robert, people:
> >Whether you "like" it is opinion (highly dependent on the proximity of
> > your browser settings to those of the designer in the fixed widht world).
> Ahh your second point is still very much an opinion. It doesn't
> matter how much you state it as a fact, it is still an opinion.
Can we kill this now? We're none of us so rich in free time that flames are
necessary.
From what I can tell, Fixed-width vs. Variable-width is a *tradeoff*, and you
gain and lose things either way. Let me sum up the pros for each:
Fixed-Width
-- Supports more polished designs
-- More "corporate"
-- supports better visual organization of navigation
-- better for websites with many images
-- cuts down on scrolling
-- emphasizes design
Variable-Width
-- Supports a greater variety of browser/language settings
-- More "open source"
-- better for large quantities of text content
-- emphasizes content
Do people agree with the above points?
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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