On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but > screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch > indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it > like a newspaper is https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/ > - brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really > confusing.
And newspaper layouts are handcrafted for exactly one width and height. It's hard enough to get articles to display nicely with embedded images and infoboxes with a single column - could that really work multi column? Maybe a better use of the extra horizontal space would be to expand some of the embedded images and infoboxes out of the text? I was going to point to theglobalmail.org as an interesting example of a multi-column layout on the web (horizontal scrolling!) but it looks like they've caved in and gone to a conventional one column vertical layout. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
