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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Nov 9, 2004 12:49PM

Brain shut down: too many variables!!!

Hmm, not easy is it. Fixed must accomodate both large and small view ports,
liquid can create line lengths too long (according to readability studies),
elastic can allow a reader to increase font size whereby the width of the
content is wider than the width of the viewport.

JavaScript could be used to "answer" some of these questions but of course,
JS must be enabled.

Jules

-----Original Message-----
From: darrel.austin [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:39 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] fixed width or resizable pages



> What about an elastic layout whereby body {width: 50ems;} (as an
> example) whereby the 10 words/line would not change as the text size
> is changed?

It's valid *if* you could ensure that a person's prefered text size would
correlate to the available width of their browser view-port.

Which is hard to do.

-Darrel

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