Re: Another WP redesign

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but
> screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
> indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
> like a newspaper is https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/
> - brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really
> confusing.

And newspaper layouts are handcrafted for exactly one width and
height. It's hard enough to get articles to display nicely with
embedded images and infoboxes with a single column - could that really
work multi column? Maybe a better use of the extra horizontal space
would be to expand some of the embedded images and infoboxes out of
the text?

I was going to point to theglobalmail.org as an interesting example of
a multi-column layout on the web (horizontal scrolling!) but it looks
like they've caved in and gone to a conventional one column vertical
layout.

Steve

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