Basic “zoom–fixed–zoom” layout for bored web-designers
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Welcome to this quite ordinary-looking but slightly unusually-acting test page.
This page can cope with quite a bit of font-resizing and other user-imposed conditions in the following browsers:
- Opera
- Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox etc)
- Safari
- Internet Explorer 6
It will also survive to a degree in:
- Internet Explorer 5.2.3 /Mac
I don't know how much this layout can take, or what it will look like, in other browsers. It definitely isn't made to survive in older versions of any browser.
Note: I wouldn't use this layout for anything serious, the way it is now. However, it is functional and may be used as base for further development.
© 2005 ?
Both side-columns are dimensioned using 'em' units, while center-column is dimensioned using 'px'. This leads to font-size based width of side-columns, while center-column has a fixed width.
The result is that there's no float-drop or strange breaking of layout when users apply their preferences to this page.
There's no source-order flexibility built into this layout, so I regard it as a less usable design-solution. I might fix that – one day when I feel bored again.