Comments on: A Fluid and Elastic new layout http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/ The Science of Web Art, Design and Development Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:49:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: guioconnor http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-336 guioconnor Wed, 16 May 2007 13:55:14 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-336 Tony, thanks :-) i'm very proud of the visual myself. Actually, the site does work in Internet Explorer. A good part of my public still uses IE 6, and the site works perfectly on it. However Perfectly is different from fully. Internet explorer does not support an awful lot of features it should, then you are faced with the folowing options: <ul> <li>Not to implement anything that doesn't work in all famous browsers and limit your work</li> <li>Use dirty hacks to find specific workarounds and perpetuate the missing things</li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation" rel="nofollow">Gracefully degrade</a> your layout for poorer browsers</li> </ul> My option is often the last one. But actually, this site works almost fully on IE7 and there are workarounds for critical issues in IE6. The paragraph size is limited because of typographic conventions. In order to preserve text flow, lines must not be too long. The extra space in the right, becames a sidebar for floating objects like pullouts and images. Making a better use of a widescreen monitor that to let the text extend for arbitraty lenght and destroying text flow. I wasn't aware of any learning disability like this. I'd love to be take this kind of concern on my work. I'd very much appreciate if you can share some more info :-) ]]> By: Tony Collins http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-335 Tony Collins Wed, 16 May 2007 11:43:31 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-335 Very good looking site, although I think not supporting IE is a particularly dumb decision seeing as how you mention accessibility. (I am not saying MS are correct for ignoring max-width etc!!!) Why is limiting your paragraph size (elastic) considered accessible when there are people with cognative/learning disabilities that prefer to read text over very long lines? Very good looking site, although I think not supporting IE is a particularly dumb decision seeing as how you mention accessibility. (I am not saying MS are correct for ignoring max-width etc!!!)

Why is limiting your paragraph size (elastic) considered accessible when there are people with cognative/learning disabilities that prefer to read text over very long lines?

]]> By: Gustavo Mandolesi http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-223 Gustavo Mandolesi Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:50:54 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-223 Really cool, man! Very clean, professional and attractive look, indeed. Really cool, man! Very clean, professional and attractive look, indeed.

]]> By: guioconnor http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-222 guioconnor Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:29:40 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-222 Thanks Anna and Alexandre, very kind of you both. Anna: I'm glad to know that it works on mobiles as well. That is the exact kind of acessibility I was talking about :-) Thanks Anna and Alexandre, very kind of you both.

Anna: I’m glad to know that it works on mobiles as well. That is the exact kind of acessibility I was talking about :-)

]]> By: Alexandre http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-221 Alexandre Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:59:31 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-221 This new layout is wonderful! Clean, organized and beautiful. And the fluid and elastic layout is surely very useful and will please a lot of people. There´s no doubt that you are a very creative and talented webdesigner. This new layout is wonderful! Clean, organized and beautiful. And the fluid and elastic layout is surely very useful and will please a lot of people.
There´s no doubt that you are a very creative and talented webdesigner.

]]> By: Anna http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-220 Anna Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:16:12 +0000 http://www.z-oc.com/blog/2007/04/a-fluid-and-elastic-new-layout/#comment-220 Fantastic new layout! The new colors are great and the logo is fabulous! By the way I'm accessing the blog using my mobile (Opera Mini) and the layout is working just fine - fluid and elastic. Fantastic new layout! The new colors are great and the logo is fabulous!
By the way I’m accessing the blog using my mobile (Opera Mini) and the layout is working just fine - fluid and elastic.

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