[kdewebdev-site] CSS issue

[Andras Mantia]

On Friday 25 February 2005 02:50, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> Other than that there are some good reasons to do the things Dave did
> in the layout, and it is precisely because he does focus daily on
> attempting to make ideal markup work across all browsers that I asked
> him to create a workable layout. He's also helped me with
> kittyhooch.com, but I had to make some changes and I think in some
> cases I've broken the CSS on some browsers.

I never wanted to questions Dave's experience. ;-) I just want to have a 
nice page which looks the best on the browser of our users, and 
undoubtly out users are from the *nix camp.

> Perhaps the ultimate fantasy feature in Quanta would be the ability
> to report what elements of your markup would create what problems
> with which browsers... Of course I'm not about to assign such a
> nightmare project. I'm only saying it would be incredibly impressive.
>
> For now the solution would be to measure the string length, set an
> arbitrary maximum, abbreviate the header on a word boundry and repeat
> the full text in the frame below in italics.

Let me restate that the real problem is not with the headers. With my 
fix the headers are alright in both Konqueror, Firefox, Opera and IE5. 
The other fix, with the static width of the boxes (the left menus and 
the main area) is that causes some problems *only* for IE5 (I don't 
know IE6), and only if the window is shrunken down to less than ~700 
pixels in width. But if you shrink down to less than 800x600, even with 
the old layout (fixed sizes) it will look ugly as it won't fit in the 
screen! So I see no drawback, just pro arguments. With the size given 
in percentage it will look nice if you work on full-screen browser with 
a screen bigger than 800x600, and will look nice also if your browser 
window is smaller than 800x600 (no horizontal scrollbar), if you don't 
use IE.
 IE5 users with browser window smaller than 800x600 will have to scroll 
down a little. ;-)

Andras


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