A Dao of Web Design
The web isn't paper — and its flexibility is the point, not a problem.
Originally published at alistapart.com.
Originally published at A List Apart in April 2000.
The argument, in short: we'd been treating the web rather like paper — fixed layouts, pixel-precise control, the page as something to be pinned down to the millimetre — and the web isn't paper. Its flexibility, the way it adapts to the reader and whatever they're reading on, is the point, not a problem to design away. People have been generous enough to keep reading it in the years since.