Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 4/8/2007 09:18 PM, Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: I've been working on an em-based layout and wanted to see what your user experiences were like on this test page. ... http://sitesbyjoe.foodzoomer.com/homepage.htm It seems to break apart a little in IE 7 but as you know works fine in

Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Paul, It's just a jpg file. It may just be that the colors stretch together without looking TOO bad. I'll install IE7 and start checking out the issues ASAP. I'll also take a look at the expand to screen width only issue, but I'll assume that will throw using ems for box model sizing out

Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Gunlaug, Thanks for taking a look at this. I think I still have 100% widths on those items I'm not sure how to deal with IE/Mac. I may opt to hide all styles from it altogether. Again, on the window width, I am in agreement. It seems to survive 2 zooms larger without passing window

Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
http://sitesbyjoe.foodzoomer.com/homepage.htm Thanks for taking a look at this. I think I still have 100% widths on those items Yes, but when the page becomes wider than the window, and you scroll out to the right... :-) I'm not sure how to deal with IE/Mac. I may opt to hide all

Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I'm hoping to redo my site after the old one has become a couple years stale. New logo too. Don't want anything messed up appearing before committing to the change. I'm sure you understand. http://sitesbyjoe.foodzoomer.com/homepage.htm Give it a shot and respond off-list if this is too

Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Thierry Koblentz wrote: FWIW, I'm not for limiting the width of an em-based layout to the window's width. I'd keep this behavior and may be implement a zoom layout to make everybody happy. Is this where I turn on my browser's 'Fit to width' option? :-) Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [WSG] em-based layout test request

2007-04-09 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: FWIW, I'm not for limiting the width of an em-based layout to the window's width. I'd keep this behavior and may be implement a zoom layout to make everybody happy. Is this where I turn on my browser's 'Fit to width' option? :-) Yes, right there

[WSG] nav menu help

2007-04-09 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi all, Just wondering what the best way set width and height on a horizontal list menu like this http://www.nwtc.ie/home.html so that a user-sizing the fonts wont break the layout but can still change font size. Thanks -kevin

Re: [WSG] nav menu help

2007-04-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 4/9/2007 03:12 PM, kevin mcmonagle wrote: Just wondering what the best way set width and height on a horizontal list menu like this http://www.nwtc.ie/home.html so that a user-sizing the fonts wont break the layout but can still change font size. The simplistic answer is to set the width

Re: [WSG] Odd behaviour in Opera and Safari

2007-04-09 Thread Bruce Martin
Rachel May wrote: http://skylight.web1.heliocell.com/professionals--community- groups.aspx odd behaviour in Opera and Safari - the page headings are going small after the page is loading. In Firefox with web dev extension, Edit CSS shows niftyCorners.css is not found. The 404 error page

Re: [WSG] Odd behaviour in Opera and Safari

2007-04-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Rachel May wrote: This site http://skylight.web1.heliocell.com/professionals--community- groups.aspx (please note still in testing, so e-commerce transactions won't go through, etc.) is having odd behaviour in Opera and Safari - the page headings are going

[WSG] Liquid Layouts and Overflowing tables

2007-04-09 Thread Cameron Singe
Hey guys I've got an Issue with a liquid layout and a really long tablet. I was hoping that someone could shed some light on the topic Currently I have a really long table that is wrapped in a div (which has percentage width), which is beyond the length of the page. To resolve it currently I

RE: [WSG] Odd behaviour in Opera and Safari

2007-04-09 Thread Rachel May
Thanks Bruce you're an angel!! :D -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Martin Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 2:44 p.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Odd behaviour in Opera and Safari Rachel May wrote:

RE: [WSG] Odd behaviour in Opera and Safari

2007-04-09 Thread Rachel May
Thanks heaps Philippe, that's a very good explanation! Such a relief - I was so confused! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2007 2:51 p.m. To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Odd