Are liquid layouts still relevant?

Asked 2008-09-15T12:18:42.220

Now that most of the major browsers support full page zoom (at present, the only notable exception being Google Chrome), are liquid or elastic layouts no longer needed? Is the relative pain of building liquid/elastic layouts worth the effort? Are there any situations where a liquid layout would still be of benefit? Is full page zoom the real solution it at first appears to be?

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Liquid layouts can cause usability problems, though.

Content containers that become too wide become exceptionally difficult to read.

Many blogs have fixed width content containers specifically for this reason.

Alternatively, you can create multi-column content containers so that you get an effect like a newspaper, with its multiple columns of thin containers of text. This can be difficult to do, though.

answered 2008-09-17T01:54:33.950

Are liquid layouts still relevant?

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