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Right-Justified Navigation Menus Impede Scannability
Posted by TimSlavin at April 28, 2008
"Aligning a navigation menu with the right margin might look cool, but the resulting ragged left margin severely reduces the speed with which users can scan the menu and select their preferred options."
From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox. This should be common sense but you still see right aligned forms (so the form labels are next to the input fields) and navigation links.
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