Newspaper columns are not all of uniform size. Layout editors choose one width from within a certain readable range of column widths. Different stories may be of different widths, but a particular story will keep to the same width, as different widths would look strange. Of course if a story jumps to another page, it can have a different width.
On the web the same principle applies that columns of text which are too narrow (when pinched by photos etc) or too wide (single column on a wide screen with browser at full width) then its probably going to make readers unhappy. -S On Jan 28, 2013 4:27 PM, "Steve Bennett" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
