[Sigia-l] Right Side Navigation

Pabini Gabriel-Petit pabini at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 6 04:02:23 EDT 2004


Hi Con

Not necessarily. Though it's likely that one or more columns would have a
fixed width. Even in a flexible layout, content on a page often enforces a
minimum width, so if such content is present and a user's browser window is
not wide enough to accommodate it, content on the right can still get cut
off. Also, with CSS layouts that aren't well implemented, I've seen page
layouts completely break when a browser window is too narrow to accommodate
the content.

Have you ever gone to a Web page and missed navigation that was on the
right? I have.

Also, certain Web-page layouts are becoming de facto standards. A navigation
bar across the top and/or along the left side of a page is becoming just a
such standard and, therefore, is slightly more usable. Though designers
shouldn't let that inhibit their creativity.

Pabini

Conal Tuohy wrote:

Aren't you assuming that a page has a fixed width? In that case this could
well be true: a right-side nav bar "might" be outside the viewport of a
browser window, but this is really a problem with fixed-width layout, not
with right-aligned navigation. In this case if the same nav bar was on the
left, then some of the CONTENT would be outside the browser window viewport.
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.




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