Comments on: Fresh look http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fresh-look Sun, 20 May 2012 06:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Srinivas http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-53674 Srinivas Sat, 10 May 2008 13:58:35 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-53674 May be I have missed the previous look. May be I have missed the previous look.

]]> By: Shashikant http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14685 Shashikant Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:22:16 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14685 Thanks for the links. Thanks for the links.

]]> By: Diwaker Gupta http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14676 Diwaker Gupta Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:47:21 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14676 I'll try to dig up academic references, but for the time being here is some anecdotal evidence: * http://www.webreference.com/programming/typography/ * http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/info8.html * http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.htm * http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/readability.cfm#blocksize I’ll try to dig up academic references, but for the time being here is some anecdotal evidence:

* http://www.webreference.com/programming/typography/
* http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/info8.html
* http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.htm
* http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/readability.cfm#blocksize

]]> By: Shashikant http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14675 Shashikant Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:26:21 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14675 Call it idiosyncrasy, but I don't like too much of vertical scroll. Moving the required text on paper to your eyesight is easier than scrolling with mouse/down arrow as the later requires little attention to get it right. Please point me to research on this subject if you come across. It would be intersting to learn the details. Call it idiosyncrasy, but I don’t like too much of vertical scroll. Moving the required text on paper to your eyesight is easier than scrolling with mouse/down arrow as the later requires little attention to get it right.

Please point me to research on this subject if you come across. It would be intersting to learn the details.

]]> By: Diwaker Gupta http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14670 Diwaker Gupta Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:47:15 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14670 *@shashi*: several, actually. First of all, a fixed width layout is much easier/cleaner/portable than a fluid one (in terms of code) :) Secondly, I think there is research showing that humans don't like reading long lines of text -- the same reason why _all_ news papers and magazines use several short columns. So on a wide screen I actually _don't_ want my text to be too wide. You don't agree? *@shashi*: several, actually. First of all, a fixed width layout is much easier/cleaner/portable than a fluid one (in terms of code) :) Secondly, I think there is research showing that humans don’t like reading long lines of text — the same reason why _all_ news papers and magazines use several short columns. So on a wide screen I actually _don’t_ want my text to be too wide. You don’t agree?

]]> By: Shashikant http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14569 Shashikant Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:49 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2007/06/20/fresh-look/#comment-14569 This is as clean as earlier with better aesthetics. Any reason for restricting the width (to 800px)? On my wide screen, the actual blog content occupies only 40% of the available width. This is as clean as earlier with better aesthetics.

Any reason for restricting the width (to 800px)? On my wide screen, the actual blog content occupies only 40% of the available width.

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