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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Nov 9, 2004 1:02PM

julian.rickards wrote:

>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.
>
>
For the redesign of all my pages I am using a liquid approach with EM
columns on the left and right and an extra widget to set the width to a
percentage if the user needs that.
http://www.icant.co.uk/forreview/site/

The argument that text lines become too long to read is rather bogus in
my opinion, as you can always resize the browser window. Fixing the size
(even to an EM value) is something you cannot change though and you
might have to scroll horizontally.

My .02

Chris