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Literate Web Pages...Understand the Medium

Understand the medium of the web. Don't bring habits from printing on paper.

Why

Web pages written without an understanding of the medium don't work for readers the way their authors think.

Details

(more to be written)

References

For more information, see:

Liquid Design: Go With the Flow

"The web is not print media. The fluid nature of the internet makes trying to control every aspect of the user experience next to impossible." ... "The internet's flexibility is not a limitation or a fault or something to be worked around."

Web Pages Aren't Printed on Paper

"When a new medium borrows from an existing one,...much of the borrowing is thoughtless, and often constrains the new medium." ... "printed pages are static, web pages are fluid."