[Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation

[Russ Unger]

> > From: Donna Maurer
> >  
> > Huh? Why?
> > 
> > My blog (link below), and many others, have right nav. It's fluid
> > and it works. 
> 
> When your blog page is displayed inside a window not much wider than
> that of the pictures in the blog entries, the navigation bar will get
> pushed out of the window right border and be invisible.

I minimized her blog to go down to the smallest size possible without
any l-r scrolling.  That was at 696 pixels wide--and if she made a
conscious decision based upon some sort of factual or personal
preference that she wanted to support a minimum of 800x600, then she has
managed to fall within that range.

Further, items such as image size, font size, placement of "objects",
etc. are often defined and detailed inside of a style guide in order to
alleviate the issue you're bringing up.  Since it's her blog, I'm
guessing that she knows the largest acceptable image that she can allow
to be placed.  I have a homegrown blog that has supported several users
over the year and whenever a user wanted to use an image to support
their content, specific instructions were supplied to them and a
technology solution was written to ensure that those rules were being
followed.

> > What does the browser rendering direction have to do with anything?
> 
> It affects the handling of horizontal overflow. With left-to-right,
> overflow are pushed towards the right. Thus, as in your blog page, the
> right navigation bar is the first victim of overflow. However with
> right-to-left, the right navigation bar won't be the first overflow
> victim because overflow are pushed towards the left.

And again, I'll state that quite often decisions to support specific
sizes--from personal blogs to Fortune X companies--are generated by
specific data and/or preferences.  Why, I have built several personal
sites this year and they all follow some very specific design rules
based upon data accumulated from other sites--even though they're for
entertainment purposes only--and they allow for the most design
flexibility for the largest audience.

That is, I chose consciously to NOT support the fraction of a percent of
users on a PDA or other device that cannot reach a minimum of 800
pixels.  I'm willing to bet that a lot of users do not consider these
things, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of users on this, or similar
lists, do.

Sorry if this appears aggressive--it's not my intention, in the least.
I want to support my side of this discussion and I can "feel" my
frustration and it's not meant to be directed at any individual.

Russ