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1. This site is liquid & elastic?

   Comment by rony — August 30, 2006 @ 7:21 am

2. Hmmm, if this is liquid & elastic, I want to see how a fixed width site looks like. I might have been confused all this time …

   Comment by matthijs — August 30, 2006 @ 7:57 am

3. Complain all you want guys, but in the only browser I use for testing (Firefox 1.5 Win), this site is most definitely elastic.

   Comment by C Montoya — August 30, 2006 @ 10:09 am

4. sorry you are right. i only tried resizing my browser and nothing happened.. the resize effect when resizing the text is nice though. Maybe some more constructive remark then: in a case like this I might have used a max-width to prevent horizontal scrolling. But well, that might of course have other drawbacks. The site looks nice, that’s for sure.

   Comment by matthijs — August 30, 2006 @ 11:18 am

5. yeah, the use of max-width on elastic layouts has definitely been debated before. In this case, I think the designers intended to maintain the grid layout at any text size. It can be argued that it might be better for users who need large text to retain the grid structure and have the users scroll horizontally and vertically as if they are viewing the content through a magnifying glass. With a mouse that enables scroll-click, this is actually rather convenient.

   But it’s hard to tell. In the case of this site, I think they made the right choice.

   Comment by C Montoya — August 30, 2006 @ 1:21 pm

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