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And he is correct that pages and fixed layout do not make sense for electronic media even if printed.
by john61 4y ago
And he is correct that pages and fixed layout do not make sense for electronic media even if printed.
- mhd 4y agoYeah, getting the most use out of your paper (or picking said size in the first place) was a time-honored tradition of print typography. And sure, not 1:1 applicable to the screen. I do think that the screen typography department has been seriously lacking here, though. Scrolling a single column can't really be the end of wisdom. But the main problem we've got is that the ad people took care of on-screen typography once we progress far enough that screen sizes and resolutions actually would've made more things possible. Not the tradition of typography that made newspapers, books etc., but the flyer and full-page-ad demographic. PageMaker, not FrameMaker. Browsers barely have the tools to make reading effective and enjoyable. CSS is oriented towards other purposes, and the browsers themselves only have the bare necessities – practically hidden "user stylesheets" or the one-size-fits-all "reader mode".