Avoid the use of fixed height in the design unless we absolutely need it and cannot use max/min height and padding.
Perspective
I have found that defining a fixed height is often not needed and ends up creating a certain rigidity in the design. Granted, browsers have changed how they handle scaling up/zoom, so we have less worries about users changing font-sizes and content overflowing its container.
What I notice happens is that we end up adding additional media queries instead of being able to leverage some of the benefits of em based sizing.
When it comes to images, we'll want to start considering standard aspect ratios. This also ensures that we crop our images to pleasing dimensions and helps simplify scaling.
Proposal
Avoid the use of fixed height in the design unless we absolutely need it and cannot use max/min height and padding.
Perspective
I have found that defining a fixed height is often not needed and ends up creating a certain rigidity in the design. Granted, browsers have changed how they handle scaling up/zoom, so we have less worries about users changing font-sizes and content overflowing its container.
What I notice happens is that we end up adding additional media queries instead of being able to leverage some of the benefits of em based sizing.
When it comes to images, we'll want to start considering standard aspect ratios. This also ensures that we crop our images to pleasing dimensions and helps simplify scaling.
What's next?
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