[boost] Re: [website] More "improvements"..

From: Miro Jurisic (macdev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-05 00:46:39

In article <20050405031528.M40231_at_[hidden]>,
 "Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>  Fighting frozen layouts seems a lost battle, but it's worth repeating:
>  different users have different monitor sizes. People with big monitors
>  want to be able to resize their browsers to view multiple windows
>  simultaneously. You can't assume that everyone's window width is 
>  800 pixels: it's too much for some users and too little for others. "

There is a big difference between assuming a fixed pixel-width and use a 
max-width in ems.

> > A survey is not necessarily relevant, unless you are willing to (IMO 
> > wrongly) assume that preference for a layout is correlated to its 
> > adequacy. HCI studies find time and time again that people don't 
> > know what's good for them.
> 
> So we should do the opposite of what "we" useful and pleasing because of some 
> HCI studies?  That's ridiculous.  Maybe we should make the home page look 
> like some ugly site -- say slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) -- any takers?  I 
> think the Boost community is fully capable of discussing and choosing wisely.

On matters on which it's authoritative, yes. On other matters, not necessarily. 
A mark of an expert is not only that he knows a lot, but also that he recognizes 
where the boundaries of his expertise are.

On that note, I am not an HCI expert, so I will bow out of this discussion at 
this point. I have made my main point already: there are benefits to fixed 
layouts (expressed relative to font sizes) that may be beneficial to readability 
for many of our users.

meeroh