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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Nov 9, 2004 9:22AM





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My
personal opinion is that as long as the user can resize the font for readability
purposes, I think that fixed width is fine (just don't use fixed height).
Secondly, if a user disables CSS and the layout uses only CSS (tabular data
in a table being the exception), then any layout method is moot (fixed, liquid,
fluid).
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>
<FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jules
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color=#0000ff>-----------------------------------------------
Julian Rickards <FONT
face=Georgia color=#0000ff>A/Digital Publications Distribution
Coordinator Publication Services
Section, Ministry of Northern
Development and Mines, Vox:
705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960

<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: martin.burrow
[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]Sent: Tuesday, November 09,
2004 9:53 AMTo: WebAIM Discussion ListSubject: [WebAIM]
fixed width or resizable pages
Hello, does anyone
have any strong views / advice on which is preferable?
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Are there any good
reasons to stick with a fixed width template?
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<FONT face=Arial
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<FONT face=Arial
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