960 grid...dead?
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- raf0
A very good discussion on column widths and mimicking paper layouts in digital:
- somadigital0
@grafisk, akrokdesign - that is exactly why i think 960 fixed is dead. it only satisfies aprx 20-30% of the user/consumer with a 1024 screen.
@toodee - yes, screen resolutions are getting more extreme every day, from iphone (500px) to cinema displays (2500px) and with these extremes, we should not have a use size fits all.
- yeah, ONLY 1 in 3 oto 1 in 5 users will fucking loath your website... no problem.monNom
- PIZZA0
Yes it's fine, not everyone surfs the web in maximized single tasking cunt-o-vision. I have 2 large monitors but my web browser is a medium sized window
- raf0
With the logic of some of you, books should be two meters wide, because they can.
It's not like 960px is constraining us waiting to make wider websites.
It is good simply because most websites need not to be wider at all.
- doublespaced0
A website taking up a full screen I can tolerate on a 13" laptop because those screens are low resolution and about the size of a browser window to start with. Going full screen on a large monitor, just because you can, is ridiculous though.
I don't have a big display because I want to show a bigger website, I have one because I don't want the website to fill up the entire display. Hence, 960 is a nice width and should be here for awhile longer. It allows a website to occupy only a 1/2 of my display's real estate while I use the rest for other windows or documents.
- abettertomorrow0
Interesting how everyone more or less completely missed the point. He wasn't talking about doing away with 960 width page, just the need for a grid that scales up to a slightly larger size and down to a smaller one.
- so "dead?" was a drama queen-esque overstatement then?TheBlueOne
- "960 grid" was what I readabettertomorrow
- 960 is fixed width, and by the sound of postings, the idea of fixed width web sites is dead. shall a headline have less drama and say 960 grid...to be phased out tomorrow or next year or not at all.somadigital