[kdewebdev-site] CSS issue

[Eric Laffoon]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 10:11 am, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > Dave Reddish tested this CSS on multiple browsers. It should be noted
> > that long headers can be abbreviated and repeated below too. I'd like
> > some confirmation in other browsers before committing.
>
> I tested with Firefox and Konqueror. Will test with Opera as well
> tomorrow. Do we care about other browsers?

Regrettably the case can be made to care about all browsers. After all if 
we're going to get people to move from Windows to use Quanta we have a 
paradox if we're using transparent PNG, DOM menus and some of the other 
things that Internet Exploder can't handle.

> BTW, I think using fixed point areas is quite bad and look ugly if you
> happen to resize your browser. Same issue if people are using bigger
> fonts.

Fine, but at the same time if something ties to a graphic the case can be 
made. Generally it's better to size with em but there are a lot of issues 
where choices are made to compensate for browser problems and I let Dave have 
a free hand there because it's a pain. The objective was to derive a div 
based layout, which is the proposed W3C approach for the new way to do things 
and we wanted to produce clean strict XHTML. The paradox is that to get this 
to render right we end up having to do things we shouldn't. If you take out 
the line breaks on the index page by the images (they look out of place) the 
image overruns the frame.

The problem is that as long as CSS has been out there is still the problem 
that if your layout is the least bit sophisticated it becomes a pandora's 
box. I would like to have something workable that looks good and focus on the 
rest personally, but if you like to get bloody have at it. ;-)
>
> Andras

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Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module