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This is surreal! I'm a designer and I had a brainwave yesterday ”I wonder if I could apply classical page layout I learned for print design to web“ and my web h
by err4nt 13y ago
This is surreal! I'm a designer and I had a brainwave yesterday ”I wonder if I could apply classical page layout I learned for print design to web“ and my web history from yesterday included this very page!
I tried to implement some of this in CSS, but here are the issues I had with it:
- there aren't left and right pages on web, so margins should be equal. Classical page layout means that the left margin, right margin, and the gap between the two pages is equal.
- there's no comfortable way to control line length in a fluid responsive layout, unless you have really obvious breakpoints.
- because long documents aren't broken into pages, the bottom part of the page runs off the bottom of the screen so there's not even a concept of page length on web
I still have more thinking to do, and so far I think the site that has done this best so far is medium.com