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    <p><strong>Update:</strong> I deleted my motivation because it seems to distract readers. This is not about "why don't you make your window smaller". See the screenshots and you will see obstructed text because of fixed width. See my reference to "em/ex" notation in CSS. I would like to have a real discussion here. Thank you.</p> <hr> <p>Now I would like to ask real experts on this topic -- I'm not a web designer -- why fixed width layout are still that popular and if there are really <em>good</em> reasons for it. (you are welcome to point out reasons against it as well.)</p> <ul> <li><p><strong>Is it too hard</strong> to design your layout relatively (from start on)? It seems some people even <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/90595/how-to-implement-a-web-page-that-scales-when-the-browser-window-is-resized">forgot how to do it</a>.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Do you have real reasons</strong> like readability and just don't know how to deal with it correctly? Here I'm referring to pieces of wisdom, like it's harder to read longer lines (that's why newspapers use columns) -- but then, width should be given using <a href="http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/units.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>em</code> and <code>ex</code></a>.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Are you forced</strong> by some <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/456250/recommended-website-resolution-width-and-height">old guidelines</a>? In the dark old age of HTML, people did a <em>lot</em> of things wrong; now everybody finally uses CSS, but perhaps this one just sticked.</p></li> <li><p>Or are you like me, wondering why everybody is doing it "wrong"?</p></li> </ul> <p>To illustrate the issue, I want to give screenshots of negative examples first:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://fopref.meinungsverstaerker.de/div_priv/stackoverflow.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">StackOverflow</a> (here I can't even see what would make it <em>any</em> hard to fix it)</li> <li><a href="http://fopref.meinungsverstaerker.de/div_priv/filmstarts.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Filmstarts</a> (a german website which renders itself unreadable-if I don't take a reading-glass with me)</li> </ul> <p>And here is a positive example. It looks like a typical fixed with site (even with transparent borders), but it is not:</p> <p><a href="http://fsi.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/dw/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Website on Wiki software</a> -- <a href="http://fsi.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/forum/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">associated Forums</a></p> <p>What do you think?</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> Related questions: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27381/should-websites-expand-on-window-resize">this one</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/329900/css-fixed-or-float-layout">that one</a>.</p>
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    1. COThis is not a question - it's an argument. Every time you ask a question you put in subjective measures "really good" or answer it peremptorily with your belief. Then you cast the question as already answered in indicating that those who design otherwise do so negatively. Ask a real question.
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    2. COFurther, this is a design question - HTML and CSS are not turing complete and therefore this is not a programming question. I voted to close as subjective AND argumentative, but I hope others will close it based on one of the two negative qualities of this 'question'
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    3. COThere are far better places to ask real web designers this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/321618/where-can-i-ask-questions-that-arent-programming-questions
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