k wrote:
Acidus wrote:
Agreed, though I'm not convinced that issue is 100% the fault of the page author. I don't think the tools available really are sufficient. [SNIP]
I'm sympathetic to your argument that a site should be able to handle all of those situations dynamically. Maybe I'm not smart enough, and I'm certainly not a web genius, but I really don't believe it's pure laziness that this doesn't happen. If it was trivial, someone would be doing it.
I've only got a vague notion of how I'd do it, because it's not just a matter of jacking text up and widening the box that text is in. You actually have to add a fair bit of logic to the page, detailing how to handle various situations.
I dunno, maybe I'm over (under?) thinking this or something.
Its not uber hard. Most people are using preexisting templates. Solve these problems in Blogger, Wordpress, MovableType, and you solve a large part of it.
I wrote some client side code for the upcoming upgrade to Memestreams that will allow pictures in posts. It using JavaScript t o dynamically resize an image to fit in a certain dimensions while preserving the aspect ratio. I should look at writing some JavaScript to dynamically so-called "hard" styles directives like width and wrapping based on client side user conditions like screen size, etc. This way, you don't need to be a HTML ninja.
