PUBLIC MARKS with tags webdesign & élastique

Switchy McLayout lets you define the dimensions, information richness, and appearance of your content objects for set ranges of screen sizes. A news site, for example, could have one layout and appearance for wide screens, one for medium-sized screens, and another for PDAs. Images could shrink or even disappear according to the screen size, columns could come and go as needed to maintain readability, and you can achieve a more efficient use of the available space for each screen size.

Just in the last few days the old debate about fixed vs. fluid width in website layouts has surfaced again for some reason. I don’t think we will ever come to a consensus on the issue, so there isn’t much use in sharing my point of view. But a bit of debating can be fun, so I’ll do it anyway.