Thanks everyone for your thoughts on positioning vs float... except of
course that opinion is divided! As usual, its a matter of finding the best
fit for what I want to achieve.
I think I might do a new version of the site using floats over the weekend,
just to see if it makes a difference. My
Anura,
I noticed someone made the comment that the preferred floats to
absolute
positioning.
I have just created a new design using absolute positioning. It
'seems' to
work across IE, Mozilla, Opera and latest Netscape (I'm trying to
forget
about NS4.7).
But what is the consensus amongst my
When done properly, with due care for which parent container it uses,
absolute positioning yields a lot more robust results, imho. It would be
dangerous to simply dismiss absolute positioning in favour of floats.
You've just got to be careful in how you position things, to avoid
potential
Hi Anura,
Personally, I go with floats every time.
Absolute positioning relies on the display size too much.
It also allows coders to apply fixes to the document flow.
Have you considered the documents appearance on a 160px wide PDA?
How about a Braille reader?
mike 2k:)2
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:52 +0100, Mike Foskett
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Personally, I go with floats every time.
Absolute positioning relies on the display size too much.
I try to mix it up a bit - there's lots of browser bugs with floats
(think Mac IE5). Absolute positioning is fantastic for
On Wednesday, Aug 25, 2004, at 18:49 Australia/Sydney, Mike Foskett
wrote:
Have you considered the documents appearance on a 160px wide PDA?
How about a Braille reader?
Surely you wouldn't deliver the layout CSS to either of these
devices... semantically structured text and (for the PDA)
for elastic designs.
mike 2k:)2
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:49:52 +0100, Mike Foskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I go with floats
