Comments on: Around the web http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web Alex King's blog - software, photography, sports, etc. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: alexking.org: Blog http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-714 alexking.org: Blog Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:06:33 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-714 <strong>Flexible Width Designs</strong>Matt comments on the apparent death of flexible width designs. Flexible width designs seem to work well in web applications (tasks for example), but on my web site I've chosen to use a fixed width. Frankly, the biggest knock I have against flexi... Flexible Width DesignsMatt comments on the apparent death of flexible width designs. Flexible width designs seem to work well in web applications (tasks for example), but on my web site I’ve chosen to use a fixed width.

Frankly, the biggest knock I have against flexi…

]]> By: Scott J. Kramer http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-386 Scott J. Kramer Sun, 14 Sep 2003 08:37:06 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-386 I'd never touched Outlook until last year when I tinkered with it a bit while helping my brother with a PC/Windows upgrade last year. *shudder* What you wrote about newspapers sounds like the comment on Amar Sagoo's Tofu "column view" text reader page , which I noticed while downloading it after I reading your comment here. Still too early to tell if/when I'll use it. It's an interesting idea and I'm surprised to never have seen an option in any e-mail client (for example) for viewing text that way. Of course a newspaper is a larger, portrait mode medium than the typical landscape mode computer display. My Combined View NNW window occupies most of a CodeTek Virtual Desktop desktop and I'm getting used to the expand/collapse keyboard shortcuts. I've noticed that if the headlines window is too narrow then images are more likely to be horizontally truncated, forcing me to resize the window or open the item in the browser. I've long had a distaste for overly wide text columns/windows. I’d never touched Outlook until last year when I tinkered with it a bit while helping my brother with a PC/Windows upgrade last year. *shudder*

What you wrote about newspapers sounds like the comment on Amar Sagoo’s Tofu “column view” text reader page , which I noticed while downloading it after I reading your comment here. Still too early to tell if/when I’ll use it. It’s an interesting idea and I’m surprised to never have seen an option in any e-mail client (for example) for viewing text that way. Of course a newspaper is a larger, portrait mode medium than the typical landscape mode computer display.

My Combined View NNW window occupies most of a CodeTek Virtual Desktop desktop and I’m getting used to the expand/collapse keyboard shortcuts. I’ve noticed that if the headlines window is too narrow then images are more likely to be horizontally truncated, forcing me to resize the window or open the item in the browser.

I’ve long had a distaste for overly wide text columns/windows.

]]> By: Alex http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-366 Alex Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:11:52 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-366 Outlook has burdened us with the horizonatal/vertical 3-pane view and it is a horrible layout for reading. There is a reason newspapers are laid out in lots of skinny columns - it's easier to read! The eye does not have to travel as far and doesn't lose what line it's on, very significant differences. I keep my NNW window pretty small, it would fit just fine on 1024x768 and I can tell you the readability factor since I switched is really noticeable. As it is, more and more applications force you to read content in a wide, squat window. It irks me. Outlook has burdened us with the horizonatal/vertical 3-pane view and it is a horrible layout for reading.

There is a reason newspapers are laid out in lots of skinny columns - it’s easier to read! The eye does not have to travel as far and doesn’t lose what line it’s on, very significant differences.

I keep my NNW window pretty small, it would fit just fine on 1024×768 and I can tell you the readability factor since I switched is really noticeable.

As it is, more and more applications force you to read content in a wide, squat window. It irks me.

]]> By: Scott J. Kramer http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-365 Scott J. Kramer Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:28:13 +0000 http://alexking.org/blog/2003/08/31/around-the-web#comment-365 The widescreen and column views for NNW you refer to remind me of Bradsoft's FeedDemon for Windows. After installing that on my wife's 1024x768 notebook PC my first impression was that it begged for more horizontal pixels. While I'd prefer the wide-column interface style for "feed reader" programs so far NNW's Combined View seems the most reasonable compromise of both horizontal and vertical pixel space on my 1024x768 iBook display. The widescreen and column views for NNW you refer to remind me of Bradsoft’s FeedDemon for Windows. After installing that on my wife’s 1024×768 notebook PC my first impression was that it begged for more horizontal pixels. While I’d prefer the wide-column interface style for “feed reader” programs so far NNW’s Combined View seems the most reasonable compromise of both horizontal and vertical pixel space on my 1024×768 iBook display.

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