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User: Guest 11 years ago
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| Left, Right, ... Center are there. What about justified text? | |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Justified text is non standard for web use and W3C has this to say about it... Many people with cognitive disabilities have a great deal of trouble with blocks of text that are justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins). The spaces between words create "rivers of white" running down the page, which can make the text difficult for some people to read. This failure describes situations where this confusing text layout occurs. The best way to avoid this problem is not to create text layout that is fully justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins). ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Guest 11 years ago
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I'm not a supporter of justification, and could really care less one way or another. The point that I was trying to make was that the sample site for EasyWeb clearly shows justified text which can't possibly be done with the application. The typical iWeb users that ask me for help usually fall into one of two groups. Small businesses or academics (attorneys, psychologist, medical and teachers). The second group is stupid anal about text control, paragraph styles etc. They all expect the web to work like word. This group is very likely to be a candidate for what you are building including the integrated hosting so I would at least be prepared for support tickets revolving around text formatting issues. My only point was purely marketing related. I would not show an example of a feature that your program cannot reproduce or it will call into question the credibility of the presentation. |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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The EasyWeb inspector isn't showing justified text. Its showing centered text. Justified is where all the words in the lines are stretched out to make the lines the same length. Its a technique that was used in newspapers and magazines. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Guest 11 years ago
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That's why I asked the question: Quote: Left, Right, ... Center are there. What about justified text?
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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[quote="lilnitsch":r1pxd4gn] I would not show an example of a feature that your program cannot reproduce or it will call into question the credibility of the presentation. Rage are not showing the feature. Your image of the iWeb inspector is. As I already pointed out, justified text is not used in Web Design. The reason that its available in the iWeb inspector is that Apple use the same techniques in iWeb that they use in their word processing software even although its not acceptable in web design. You need to forget about the iWeb/Apple way. The way in which iWeb does letter and line spacing is not standard for web design either. Web designers use CSS to specify things like line height rather than line spacing. There are a lot of similarities between designing for the web and for print media. Those who take on web design need to also appreciate the differences. Points (pt) are used in print media and word processing whereas pixels (px) are more common in web design. Even pixels are on the decline since they are being replaced by ems and percentages which are more relevant to modern web design. Remember that iWeb was developed a long time ago in relation to the advances in web design and it is very outdated. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Guest 11 years ago
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| The marketing photo on the Facebook page clearly shows justified text. | |
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User: Guest 11 years ago
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| And I am not here to argue web standards. I am here to discuss the features of this app. Plain and simple | |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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I'm not arguing about web standards. I'm just pointing out the difference between a word processor and a web design app. iWeb was a bit of both. Justified text is not required in web design so lets get on with discussing what is. If you look at the code produced by EasyWeb you will see how far advanced it is c/w iWeb and other software of its type. Ever since it was obvious that iWeb was on the way out I have been looking at web design apps to see if any of them have the capability of producing websites which can compete in today's market. Most web designers seem to agree that the mobile first approach to design is the best way to go. This means that sites can be designed to work in all modern browsers and on portable devices with the minimum of code and utilising the advances in CSS to create attractive sites without the use of images. Sprites are an alternative but these are actually harder for the beginner to understand and implement than using CSS since they require desktop design skills and precise positioning. The idea behind mobile-first is that the lean, mean scripts are loaded first and the heavies with their PNGs and other stuff or only loaded for legacy browsers. This requires conditional styles and it appears that Rage have come up with a really easy way of implementing them. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Guest 11 years ago
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| I am merely asking about a feature that was in iWeb (and in many of the other apps that have came along after iWeb) and is not currently in EasyWeb. | |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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I'm merely saying that justified text is not used in web design so why bother to include it and encourage beginners to create bad designs?
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Guest 11 years ago
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| That is your opinion. And you are entitled to that. | |
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User: Roddy 11 years ago
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Its not my opinion - its a fact based on W3C recommendations.
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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