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Re: fixed width or resizable pages

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From: michael.brockington
Date: Nov 10, 2004 4:57AM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jens.meiert [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> > Are there any good reasons to stick with a fixed width template?
>
> There are studies claiming that it's better (more readable)
> to use only x words per line

This is not a particularly good argument - if you set widths or max-widths
using EM values then you can easily restrict line lengths (in good
browsers), without affecting small-display devices, resizing will then allow
the container to expand to fit the content regardless of font-size.
Please also note that PDA / phone resolutions are now getting close to the
640 x 480 sizes that we tend to consider as hoplessly obsolete on a PC

Mike


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