Japh

Come on now, you know you shouldn’t ask these questions. You’ll ruin the surprise! ;)

johncobb: Y U NO BLOG ABOUT CATS?

You make a good point there, John. That was remiss of me, please accept my apologies. I am no expert on cats, so I have commissioned this post and hopefully this will make up for it.

A post about cats, by Emi:

Cats. Love them or hate them, I believe they’re destined to become the dominant species on Earth. They have the coping mechanisms needed to survive the inevitable nuclear holocaust / zombie attack / alien invasion. It’s Science: 

Cats were revered in Egypt. This shows they are master manipulators, who could quickly negotiate a position of strength with alien invaders: 

Cats on average sleep 12 - 14 hours a day. A well rested mind can prepare for nuclear or zombie disaster and make plans accordingly: 

Cat urine glows under black light. They can set elaborate traps for those pesky aliens, and lead them into certain death: 

Cats have a 220o field of view compared with 180o for humans. Their sense of smell is 14 times stronger than a human’s. They can jump up to 5 times their height in one leap. They could outmanoeuvre zombies without even lifting a paw. 

Cats have even taken over the internet: 

In conclusion, cats are amazing. They will always land on their feet. 

*facts gathered through random google search, may not be reliable.

The previous debate that included ‘fluid’ was usually about going for either a centred or fluid layout for a website. Centred sites were fixed width, usually based on the most common screen width at the time, and fluid sites were percentage based or other relative units and would fill the width of the viewport regardless of what width that might be.

As screens have gotten wider, fluid width sites aren’t practical because over a certain width paragraphs become one big long line,and things like that aren’t conducive to reading.

Now we have ‘responsive’ websites, where the CSS of the website is determined in response to the capabilities of the browser. This is most often the width of the viewport, but can also be the height and other capabilities. It can also be either completely adaptive (adapts to any sized viewport at all), or stepped where there are really just several fixed widths and the most appropriate is the one used.

Responsive sites are much more intelligent about their display than fluid ones. Entire sections may be completely repositioned depending on the viewing dimensions available, rather than just squished up.