{"id":509,"date":"2003-06-19T22:18:56","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T02:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=509"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/liquid\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/?comments=1&amp;postid=2529\">Brent Simmons<\/a> argues for Web pages with white space on either side of the text, saying that if the text goes from edge to edge he&rsquo;ll have to make his window narrower in order to read it. I&rsquo;m the opposite. I prefer pages with flush text so that I can use a narrow window to begin with and not waste any screen space. I don&rsquo;t like seeing a horizontal scroll thumb that&rsquo;s enabled only so that I can scroll to the right and see more white space. I find the layout of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\">Daring Fireball<\/a> particularly odd in that the width of the text doesn&rsquo;t adjust to the font size. With a large font, there are too few words per line; with a small font, too many. Liquid layouts aren&rsquo;t perfect, but they do give the reader an extra degree of freedom to play with.\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons argues for Web pages with white space on either side of the text, saying that if the text goes from edge to edge he&rsquo;ll have to make his window narrower in order to read it. I&rsquo;m the opposite. I prefer pages with flush text so that I can use a narrow window to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}