I was admiring stopdesign.com. I think it's a beautiful layout. But I am having a problem wrapping my head around the concept behind building a page like that so that when text is scaled, the containers don't get all messed up. On stopdesign.com, the containers get deeper as needed but the layout (i.e, the positions of one container next to another) stays solid.
Tom,
Looks like stopdesign is using fixed width containers, so when the text enlarges the page stretches vertically but not horizontally.
I wouldn't, however, classify this as a site that can withstand text-resizing with qualifying that statement. If I increase my text size in Firefox with more than four + keystrokes, the text blocks begin to overlap one another and it quickly becomes unreadable. This implicitly says, "I'll accommodate you if your vision's a little bit bad, but if you're really hard of seeing you're not welcome here."
I don't mean to be harsh -- my websites have these and other accessibility issues -- I guess there are practical limits to everything. However, stopdesign could have let the content column expand to the width of the browser window, allowing the user to enlarge the fonts a little more before things broke.
Not wishing to be hypercritical; I just wanted to moderate your admiration for an excellent-but-not-perfect page layout.
Paul
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