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From: Iain Harrison
Date: Nov 9, 2004 8:07AM

Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 2:53:06 PM, martin.burrow wrote:

> Hello, does anyone have any strong views / advice on which is preferable?

If you are making a web page accessible, you have to give the user
control over font size and line length. To me, that means that you
have to use a resizable page design.

> Are there any good reasons to stick with a fixed width template?

Oh, yes. It is vastly easier to do, gives you much more control over
the layout, and allows you to impose your will on the user, not the
other way round.

.... and it prevents users choosing a tiny font in a huge window,
rendering your design horrible and unreadable. But if that's what
the user wants to do, that's not your problem.

OK, they're reasons, but maybe not /good/ reasons!

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Iain