Newspaper columns are not all of uniform size. Layout editors choose one
width from within a certain readable range of column widths. Different
stories may be of different widths, but a particular story will keep to the
same width, as different widths would look strange. Of course if a story
jumps to another page, it can have a different width.
On the web the same principle applies that columns of text which are too
narrow (when pinched by photos etc) or too wide (single column on a wide
screen with browser at full width) then its probably going to make readers
unhappy.
-S
On Jan 28, 2013 4:27 PM, "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and
have pages, but
screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
like a newspaper is
https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/
- brilliant article, but on a laptop screen the layout is just really
confusing.
And newspaper layouts are handcrafted for exactly one width and
height. It's hard enough to get articles to display nicely with
embedded images and infoboxes with a single column - could that really
work multi column? Maybe a better use of the extra horizontal space
would be to expand some of the embedded images and infoboxes out of
the text?
I was going to point to
theglobalmail.org as an interesting example of
a multi-column layout on the web (horizontal scrolling!) but it looks
like they've caved in and gone to a conventional one column vertical
layout.
Steve
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