- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:57:39 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 6/30/05, David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > It can be reflowable (hence the use of percentages) and it can be > > based on viewport size and not pixel lengths. > > The most common, in my view, breakdown of attempts to impose layout > result from failing to use calculated font sizes as the unit of > measurement. Well how does one represent the weights and proportions with only font sizes? How do I say that I want navigation as 30% of the document and content as 65% and the sidebar as 25%? I can only envision this with percentages. How would you do it without percentages and would this match the mental model the web designers have in their head? > > Yeah... um, no. Device layout would finally fix the largest problem > > with unknown destination today, by moving the problem to the device > > If you weren't so pro styling layout, I would say you had just > invented structural markup languages, like HTML! The term structural markup language is kind of vague. How is it structured? What does structured mean in this context? I believe layout is content and that it is independant of document content. Read "Layout is content, not a property of content" another thread in this newsgroup. That covers most of what I'm talking about in a more cohesive way. Orion Adrian
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