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Sorry, dumb question, but why fluid as opposed to modal? iPad users are used to browsing products modally and there don't seem to be any usability issues with i

• derwildemomo 15y ago
  not a dumb question at all. first let me clarify that i don't oppose the modal model in any way – as you said, it works just fine. My motivation was to find out whether the fluid model a) also works and b) has any advantages, and if yes which ones. I didn't come to a conclusion so far, but I have observed some interesting stuff, both on the pro and con side: - Once understood, the interface makes navigation considerably faster - The individual space for content is necessarily smaller and - The individual content panes have to adjust to the constraint that their content can only adjust horizontally, as the vertical axis is reserved for the navigation. I am opposed to saying that modal is inferior or something like that, it always depends on the context, the use case. In this very special case, it might be a better solution, but in many others, it fails hard ( think, for example, mail ).