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