[Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation

Boniface Lau boniface_lau at compuserve.com
Tue Jul 6 21:01:19 EDT 2004


> From: Russ Unger
>
> > > But if a page has a fluid, CSS-based, design then there's no
> > > reason why a nav bar couldn't stick to the right edge of the
> > > browser window, as far as I can see.
> >   
> > When the browser rendering direction is left to right, it goes
> > against the grain of fluid design to have right navigation bar.
> 
> I think you need to treat placement and purpose of navigation on a
> case-by-case basis. To say otherwise is really not performing
> analysis thoroughly, in my opinion. I've worked on sites where a
> right-side navigation was entirely relevant due to the nature of the
> application and the habits of the users, so I have to strongly
> disagree with that statement.

You may want to re-read the statement that you were so strongly
disagreeing with. The statement did not say whether right navigation
bar should or should not be used.


Boniface




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