Re: Site layout suggestion

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-10-25 02:46, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Tue, October 24, 2006 5:29 pm, Erik Wikström wrote:
>
> > And resize the browser-windows whenever I change page?
> >
> > <rant>
> > Unfortunately as the resolution increases the with of pages does too (if
> > the browser- window is kept at the same size) but making the text-lines
> > longer also makes it harder to read, so it's often better to just leave
> > some of the space unused. Who came up with the idea of widescreen
> > anyway? Tallscreen would have been much more usefull.
> > </rant>
>
> I think I have the problem solved with the max-width style in ex, as was
> suggested.

Yes, it looks nice now.

> This I ask out of curiosity: what sites do you visit that actually 
> require the entire horizontal space?  I can't think of any sites offhand
> that require more than 1K pixels across.

Very few, usually very designed pages using more than one column of 
content. Saw a page just the other day where the amount of columns 
adapted to the resolution and textsize dynamically, so when I increased 
the fontsize the number of columns decreased. But as you said these are 
hard to find, most sites don't utilize more than 800 pixels.


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Erik Wikström