While Pages could create great layouts, they only worked at a specifically designed size. Web and Windows 8 [1] presented a new challenge: Users can resize browser windows to any size at any time.

Google introduced 1-line layouts, screaming fast bare-bones web page layouts. They use astonishingly little code and don't need media queries.

Adobe's new demo web browser exists solely to demonstrate the company's proposed CSS Regions layout tool. If you'd like to check out the demo browser, head over to Adobe Labs and download a copy.

The key to the possible resurgence of horizontal site layouts is the end of the tyranny of the mouse, scroll wheel and scroll bars. Touch interfaces—be they touchpads or tablets—allow users to ...