•Re: Pixel Perfect UI Design

It's not a good design if it doesn't work on my cell phone, or a blind person's speaking browser, or is visible to the world's most important browsers (googlebot and to a lesser extent, scooter).

The web is not paper. Paper designers can't seem to get over this.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Re: •Re: Pixel Perfect UI Design by eserte (Deacon) on Mar 16, 2004 at 14:38 UTC
And to add: fonts have not the same extents on every system (even if it's the same font family), and internationalization may hit (label texts occupy more space in some languages). Issues which I often have to face from badly written Java, Gtk or Qt GUI applications.	[reply]
Re: •Re: Pixel Perfect UI Design by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Mar 14, 2004 at 21:23 UTC
It's not a good design if it doesn't work on my cell phone A desktop-based web browser is one kind of usage scenario. A PDA/phone-based web browser is a different one in most cases. This has to do with layout, but also with the amount of text to display, user needs, motives and expectations, how to navigate etc. Most likely, the usage scenario is too different to allow the same design to work in an optimal way in both scenarios. So saying "it's not good" if one design cannot accomodate both scenarios is a tad simplistic IMHO. The problem is bigger than whether a layout is/should be pixel perfect or not. /J	[reply]