- From: by way of Karl Dubost <Daniel.Barclay@fgm.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:16:39 +0900
- To: www-qa@w3.org
On the web page at http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/reback, the fixed positioning of the Further Reading box causes it to hide text in the body when the box plus the (fixed-width) META tag example together exceed the window width and the body is scrolled a bit. Is there really any reason to prevent the Further Reading box from scrolling with the rest of the page? Besides being annoying (violating the principle of not surprising the user (usually one doesn't have to avoid a certain range of scrolling because it hides content, and usually one can scroll content of a page out of the browser window)), that layout reserves a _whole_ column of empty space on the page and in the browser window just for one little box. (You weren't assuming that the user is using a full-width browser window, were you? If so, remember to consider users with high-resolution screens but with half-screen-width windows. (Half of 1152 or 1440 is still less than the 800 pixels some people assume.)) Daniel
Received on Tuesday, 3 June 2003 20:53:35 UTC