"Syscrusher" wrote:
With regard to Trae's later comment that "we live in a 1024 pixel world", I totally agree with that statement.
We do not live in such a world. We live in a world where information is conveyed through a number of human senses. Vision -- and the viewing portal through which that vision is transacted -- is only one of these senses. There are no dimensional constraints even on that portion of "our world" where information is conveyed visually. Perhaps a more supportable statement would be: "We live in a world where, when information is conveyed visually through a desktop web browser, the majority of those viewing are doing so through a portal of approximately X by Y pixels." Remember that the "world" we "live" in (information-wise) is a very diverse world -- much like the real one. I view many web sites through a very tiny viewing portal, held in the palm of my hand. All the fuss over "dimensions" using the non-standard "pixel" is wasted. Templates should provide -- in every case -- a minimum of dimensional concern. The template should allow information to flow into the space -- whatever that space's dimensions -- provided by the view port. And, this does not even begin to address the significant portion of our world that is not visual at all -- like text readers, RSS language readers, web-to-braille conversion, text-to-sound file tools, languages and writing direction and so on. Just a bit of perspective (a visual term?) and a suggestion that _any_ default template system be visually collapsible and wholly able to be utilized across a variety of sense media. -- inkfree