On 6/15/07, John Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matias Capeletto wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have commited a new proof of concept version of boostbook to
> > sandbox/doc_test/box_wrapper
> >
> > The idea is to modify the way docbook renders blurbs and
> > programlisting:
> >
> >    <div class="xxx"> .... </div>
> >
> > to more flexible structures. All these blocks in box_wrapper version
> > are rendered like:
> >
> >    <div class="xxx">
> >        <div class="box-outer-wrapper">
> >             <div class="box-top-left" />
> >             <div class="box-top-right" />
> >             <div class="box-top" />
> >             <div class="box-inner-wrapper">
> >                  ...
> >              </div>
> >             <div class="box-bottom-left" />
> >             <div class="box-bottom-right" />
> >             <div class="box-bottom" />
> >         </div>
> >    </div>
> >
> > This allows us to do almost anything with them.
>
> Can't you do this already using the border-top, border-bottom etc attributes
> in css?  Or are the results subtly different?

If you only have one div you are restricted to combinations of borders
color and thickness, a box wrapper allows you to place small images
(takes no time to load) to the borders in order to achieve things like
the rounded blurbs.

> > If you have firefox (windows or linux) or Konqueror (and I think that
> > anything in mac too, and maybe ie7) you can see a doc_test xhtml with
> > a css that uses the box wrappers.
> > (please! please... read the comment at the end of this mail about
> > internet explorer 6)
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/ysk7z8
> >
> > Look for admonitions, toc sections, code listings, tables. This is
> > just a proof of concept, but I rather like the green turning blocks...
> > specially the table :)
> > Comments are welcome!
>
> I like it: but with the exception of the table, I'm not keen on the slightly
> thicker lower border.  Sorry :-(

Do not worry. I have changed the .css to show it as before at
http://tinyurl.com/ysk7z8
Can you check that it is OK for you now?

> Code blocks and admonishments rock though.

I like them too, lets see what others think.

> > ie6 seems to dislike everything that I have done today. I do not know
> > about the quirks of this browser. If there is someone there that wants
> > to help me porting this docs to ie6 it will be fantastic. If someones
> > out there knows web design (I have zero experience... no, two weeks
> >> P) and wants to see these stuff reach mainstream please jump in and
> > help me. If you do not know boostbook it is ok. Just download the docs
> > and tell me what I have to change to make it work. Both the grouped
> > links and the box wrapper based css seems to fail there. Thanks!
>
> Hmmm, I'm not sure I still have IE6: IE7 seems to display everything
> correctly but with an "errors on page" message: I've attached a screenshot
> of the message in case it helps track the issue down.

Not at first glance. I am going to try to get ie7 so i can test it.

> Opera 8 and 9 both display the document correctly BTW: although the callout
> graphics are misplaced in both (they appear above the line they refer to):
> seems like different browsers do different things here :-(

Yep. Callouts seems to be using a property called "relative", We can
try to change that.

Best regards
Matias

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