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Re: define "liquid design"

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From: pixeldiva
Date: May 4, 2005 6:57AM

On 5/4/05, Tim Beadle < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> I don't mean to be pedantic, but a liquid design doesn't have to
>> *fill* the page/window. There could be a 100px margin around the
>> content, but if the content changes size when the window size is
>> changed, then that's liquid design.


Okay, but if we're being pedantic, isn't that 100px margin around the
content part of the design?

As in, it's been designed to have 100px of white space around the
margin, and so the "design" does fill the page/window, but the
"content" doesn't necessarily.


>> It's all about what mechanism alters the size of elements. It's either:
>>
>> 1. The window (liquid design),
>> 2. The current font size (elastic/flexible design), or
>> 3. Nothing (fixed design).


That's a better way of putting it than I managed to come up with late
last night.

pix
http://www.pixeldiva.co.uk