[Adium-devl] Website design

[Andrew Harvey]

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I thought I might weigh in on this one....

On 01/10/2008, at 6:26AM, Zachary West Wrote:

> I don't think we'd be willing to move to something that: 1) forced  
> width

And

On 01/10/2008, at 2:33 PM, Paul Wilde wrote:

> 5) This could easily be coded to not have a fixed-width.
>

What's wrong with fixed width? Honestly, there are so many sites out  
there with fixed width. To me, it makes sense. People are more ready  
to read narrower columns and as we have more and more people  
converting from Windows to OS X, those people are bringing the full- 
screen philosophy over. Can I point out how ridiculous it is to cater  
to someone who has their browser window filling their 24" iMac's  
display? Take a look at the sites you frequent: apple.com,  
technorati.com, boingboing.net, daringfireball.com are all fixed  
width, to a greater or lesser extent. What's wrong with us doing the  
same?

I had this issue earlier this year as I was producing a site after a  
long hiatus from web design. It's like I woke up and everything was  
fixed width, but in the end, it makes sense.

My 2c.

Andrew

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