Stan Baptista wrote: >> Fixed with layouts are appropriate in some instances. >> > > How have you decided between fixed and fluid? > > On 10/15/07, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Magnus Fahlström wrote: >> >>> 1. Could you please explain why you choose one over the other? >>> 2. Only for font-size or for the complete layout? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Magnus Fahlström >>> >>> >>> >>> >> There are, in my twisted little mind, no hard and fast rules about much >> of anything including either or both of your points. >> >> My /personal/ preference is to use percent throughout for setting >> fonts-- I just find it easier, more reliable, and more consistent >> cross-browser. But sure, no problems with em based fonts as long as you >> set percent on html to kill the em font-scaling bug in IE. >> >> When it comes to layouts, again it is a personal choice borne of my own >> experience. I prefer layouts that use the entire arsenal available-- a >> combination using percent/em/pixel combined with min/max width. >> Fixed with layouts are appropriate in some instances. Percent based >> layouts work well as long as you mind IE's rounding errors (and I prefer >> to hold the horizontal scroll bar in check); and em based layouts work >> fine (I prefer to hold the horizontal scroll bar in check); >> >> It is your call. >> >> Best, >> >> ~dL >> >> >> >> > >
As previously stated, when it comes to layouts, again it is a personal choice borne of /my/ own experience. I prefer layouts that use the entire arsenal available-- a combination using percent/em/pixel combined with min/max width. There are, nevertheless, situations where a fixed width layout is an appropriate solution. This depends on the situation, the content, and the problem at hand. For example, if the content is made up of large images (or contains other elements that must be of a fixed width) /and/ one does not wish to draw an horizontal scroll bar (or drop floats in narrow windows), a fixed width layout /might/ be a logical choice. Name of the game,/for me/, is to maintain a war chest and to pull weapons of choice from it determined by what will win the battle-- rather than a preconceived notion that any one layout resolves all given issues for all situations. These, of course, are personal opinions. How you (or anyone else) "plays war" is up to you... Best, ~dL PS FWIW, for a number of reasons (archive maintenance/and reading logic among them) it may be best to reply below rather than above those to whom you reply on this list. -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
