wanting to hire a web author...

[Spartanicus]

Re: wanting to hire a web author...

kchayka wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> I fail to see why max-width would be any better than a fixed width table
>> design.[/color]
>
>You don't have to set max-width on the body element, just on those
>elements or class selectors that might be problematic, like
>
>p {max-width:40em}[/color]

Which again imposes an author's view of what he thinks is a comfortable
width to read text. It's a dead tree edition constraint that should not
be emulated on the web. Properly coded web sites allow each user to
determine what *they* consider comfortable.

--
Spartanicus

[Peter Foti]

Re: wanting to hire a web author...

"Mr. B." <webmaster@Cats EyeDesigns.Net> wrote in message
news:44f7223a.0 311250101.18e9a a58@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue][color=green]
> > BTW: "Click here" is not good text for links - how does someone using a
> > keyboard/PDA/speech browser/whatever click? And you shouldn't be using[/color][/color]
only[color=blue][color=green]
> > Javascript for links - what happens for the ~10-15% of users who have it
> > disabled? Not to mention Googlebot.[/color]
> As far as googlebot, I don't WANT googlebot to index that, which is
> why a javascript link isn't a problem in that respect. The only
> javascript links are for the items in my portfolio, and a few others
> that don't need to be search engine indexable.
>
> As far as the "click here" thing, I read a user interface article a
> year or so ago that said that users like to be TOLD what to do
> sometimes. Maybe they were wrong? Maybe I don't remember it correctly?
> Who knows.[/color]

Regarding "Click Here", here's the W3 suggestion:

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere

Regards,
Peter Foti

[Brian]

Re: wanting to hire a web author...

Spartanicus wrote:[color=blue]
> Brian wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>And if it's wider then it won't adapt, same flawed principle.[/color]
>>
>>Perhaps. But horizontal scrollbars are really awful.[/color]
>
> The thread's context was preventing content to extend to the view port
> width.[/color]

Yes. And in that context, one could use width. But when the viewport
is narrow, there are horizontal scroll bars. Using max-width helps
layout without forcing horizontal scrollbars.

I'd give you an example, but my hosting provider is undergoing a
denial-of-service attack, so http is unavailable.

--
Brian
follow the directions in my address to email me

[Spartanicus]

Re: wanting to hire a web author...

Brian wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> The thread's context was preventing content to extend to the view port
>> width.[/color]
>
>Yes. And in that context, one could use width. But when the viewport
>is narrow, there are horizontal scroll bars.[/color]

Again: the context was a *wide* viewport.

--
Spartanicus

[Brian]

Re: wanting to hire a web author...

Spartanicus wrote:[color=blue]
> Brian wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>The thread's context was preventing content to extend to the view port
>>>width.[/color]
>>
>>Yes. And in that context, one could use width. But when the viewport
>>is narrow, there are horizontal scroll bars.[/color]
>
> Again: the context was a *wide* viewport.[/color]

My context is the www. The question is why and how to prevent a wide
display of e.g. a paragraph. Width is a bad choice to accomplish this
task. Max-width is a good choice.

http://www.julietremblay.com/portfolio/b.html

This uses max-width to suggest what the client thinks is an attractive
layout. Had I used width, the layout would be the same, even if
someone had a narrow viewport, creating horizontal scroll bars.
Instead, I used max-width. It does what the client wanted when the
viewport is wide -- the context of this thread -- but does not create
usability problems when the browsing situation is different. Seems to
me that's a document that works well in the context of the www.

--
Brian
follow the directions in my address to email me