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From: Tim Beadle
Date: May 4, 2005 6:18AM

On 5/3/05, Sandra Fernandez < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>> Thanx. I have been given a design that's being defined as liquid.
>> However, it starts at a fixed width for an 800x600 screen, then becomes
>> larger when you increase the font size, not when viewed with a larger
>> resolution screen. I was trying to find something that supported my
>> assertion that that's not really liquid design.


As someone else pointed out - that's flexible design, although I've
more often heard it called elastic design.

Patrick Griffith's "Elastic Lawn" at the CSS Zen Garden is a good example:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/063/063.css&;page=0

Jeremy Keith wrote about the fixed vs liquid debate:
http://adactio.com/journal/display.php/20050415012704.xml
http://adactio.com/journal/display.php/20050418221414.xml

Regards,

Tim