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Said this about 2 years ago when they asked my about my love (to CSS):

His favorite beans come from Indonesia (he loves Sumatra and Sulawesi)..

Times are a-changin’: forget about my indonesian beans. Actually, they are nice.. bold and intensive, earthy aroma, virtually no acidity. Sulawesi ist gorgeous. But I am back on the latin american side of life right now and in love with coffeemamas. Located in the heart of Berlin they do hell of a coffee.

Didn’t taste their decaf yet, but I got to sip about eleven coffees all-around, and the House Blend (the latin americans mentioned above) turned out to be my personal Jamaican Blue Mountain. Thank god it’s friday coffee!

(This is not advertising but enthusiasm. It’s not getting coffee for free but sharing my love.)

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Tonight I saw Faithless. They were
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(This is just in case anyone asks me how to explain the term »sustainability« and why it is important for developing websites. And by the way: Berlin’s Columbia Hall may be removed now. Sort of earthquake, no big deal.)

(Dieser Artikel wurde auf Deutsch im SELFHTML aktuell Weblog veröffentlicht: »Ansatz für flexible, mehrspaltige Formulare«)

Fluid web forms?

When it comes to fit a web form into a fluid layout we usually point out several reasons why form elements should be pixel based. That is because we are totally aware of web forms being part of the browser/system and therefore do not give authority to the web designer. Sort of fundamental perception. Actually, styling web forms is hard work, even pixel sized, and could turn out into the hell of a job if specification says: make it fluid.

So, here we are and asking: why should a web form be fluid? Why go to the time and effort of develop a form that is based on input fields with flexible widths? Doesn’t make sense.
Sure it may come to make sense when the form has multiple columns and a scaling form would allow input fields to grab content that otherwise would have been cut off in a fixed pixel based form. Single-column input fields are hopefully long enough at any time, but a multi-column form may benefit from flexible widths.

One last thought: why do we go for multi-column forms instead of simple single-column ones? It’s all about conformity with user expectation (buzzword) and the use for suggestive input fields which comply with the content they may receive. For instance a submission of the user’s last name requires a longer input field than a field for the few chars of his street number. According to this idea a discrepancy between (the length of) input fields and its estimated amount of data may distract the user. As multi-column forms allow input fields with different sizes — at least our form does — they may correspond to the user’s expectation.

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