Friday, August 6, 2010

Fluids


It’s always bothered me how some web sites have these fixed-width layouts, sometimes with insanely thin boxes allocated to content. The vast majority of my screen becomes this orange blob of text. Chrome’s visual appearance motto is “Content not chrome”. That doesn’t help if the content is being obscured by the presentation of the content (gopher might have solved that problem). Less chrome just means my eyes start to drown in +/- 1,732,405 pixels of orange. Even outside the extreme case, having a fixed-width layout isn’t efficient, and using something like Readability to only show the content removes the personality of the site or author, and only works on articles.