Archive for May 25, 2006

Lorem Ipsum

“Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Sorry if I made your mind twist and twitch reading the above passage! If you are a User Interface specialist probably you would have guessed what it is. The above passage is a standard text used by the user interface designer to fill in the content area of a page when he/she is providing the user interface screens. The above has been a standard dummy text since 1500s in the typesetting world. While you can find the history and the meaning of the above passage here, the advantage of the above passage is that it has equally distributed letters and since it is not in understandable text, the reader will focus on the fit of the style of the text in the page rather than getting distracted with the content. The UI screen’s with “Lorum Ipsum” content could be used within the development team in the organization to check if the font styling goes well with the overall layout. A lesson we recently learnt was not to make the mistake of showing the “Lorum Ipsum” screen to the customer who would want to see some valid content in the context of the application.

Blink this Lorem Ipsum at blinklist.com    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at blogmarks    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at del.icio.us    Digg Lorem Ipsum at Digg.com    Fark Lorem Ipsum at Fark.com    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at Furl.net    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at NewsVine    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at reddit.com    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at Simpy.com    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at Spurl.net    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum with wists    Bookmark Lorem Ipsum at YahooMyWeb

Comments      Cosmos


Creative Commons License  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.