designer wrote on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:28:45 -0000: > When you buy wallpaper, how on earth do you manage to change the default > size of the pattern?
I don't. If I don't like it, I don't buy it. > Also, when you buy someone a coffee table book, say, of > great art works, do you buy them seven copies, each with a different size > type/layout and ask them which one they want? No, but if I can't find one I can read, I don't buy any at all. > When you watch something on > Television, do you have a set of large magnifiers (or reducers) to put in > front of the screen, so you can use the one to suit your mood? No, I just buy a big TV. :-) > These things (and nearly everything else in life) are at the mercy of the > designers who helped produced them. For a lot of web designers (as opposed > to web site producing technicians), a web site is just the same Ah, but no it isn't. Everybody's viewport is a different size. Besides differences in display size, resolution and DPI, browser window sizes are limited only by the user's ability to discretely choose some particular size, being nearly infinitely adjustable. The designer has no reliable way to know either how big it is, or how big anything in it is. > You know the old saying: "you can't please all of the people all of the time"? > Anyone who thinks he can is the one being arrogant :-) The web is a bit different. It presents an opportunity to get really close most of the time, by utilizing user preferences, rather than fighting them. -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
