[ale] OT easy html editor

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Nobody worries about 640x480 anymore. The minimum accepted is still
800x600, and that's what I shoot for on my personal website.

Although some would argue it's stupid to worry about anything below 1024,
and I almost tend to agree.

-- 
Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
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Thus Spake George Carless <kafka at antichri.st>:
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:28:37 -0500

> The converse is also true, though: it's a pain in the neck to have a Web 
> site that loads in what amounts to a small window in the size of a large 
> screen.  There is a debate, generally, between 'fixed' and 'fluid' 
> designs for the Web - where fluid designs generally resize according to 
> window size.  The problem with these is that from a design perspective 
> they have their own problems; it's quite difficult for anything but the 
> most basic task to achieve a design that resizes elegantly to different 
> screen resolutions etc. but that still follows other design/usability 
> guidelines such as the number of words on a line, etc.  Some developers 
> go for a hybrid model where certain elements of a page are fixed, while 
> others are fluid.  Until recently I was a staunch advocate of the fluid 
> width approach, but I've recently found that fixed width designs have a 
> number of advantages in terms of ease of placement and clarity of design 
> that in certain cases outweight the disadvantages.  As is often the case 
> with these things, there is a balance to be achieved--a balance that 
> needs to consider such things as likely audience of the site, etc.  And, 
> to play devil's advocate, there may be a point for many developers where 
> a decision has to be made as to whom to support: I'm damned if I'm going 
> to worry about someone who's still at 640x480, for example, and even 
> 800x600 seems rather idiosyncratic in this day and age.  
> 
> --George
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