A sometimes-common problem with laptop screens is that some are 'high-res' (higher dpi than a normal monitor). I've seen some layouts look funky because pixel/em/% calculations might be different if the screen is a higher dpi.
It might be worth researching the laptop model to see if he has a 'high-res' screen. -Ryan On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Nancy Johnson wrote: > I am in the process of converting an old site from tabular with lots > of nested tables to CSS. > > This site is a challenge because it a very tight fixed-width site. > > Before we went live with the first section, we tested in IE6 and IE7 > as well as Firefox and Safari on several computers over an over and > worked fine in all of them. > > My supervisor is home sick and I got a call from him telling me that > the dark gray content area on the right displayed below the left nav > on the left ONLY on his laptop when using IE6 and ONLY if the > text-size was medium. It worked fine in larger, largest, smaller, and > smallest text-size. > > Any suggestions? > > Here is one of the pages that appear broken to him > http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/index.cfm. The others are > mostly in this section: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ewr/ > Stylesheets: > http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/css/style.css > http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/css/ie6.css > http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/css/ie7.css > > Thanks in advance > > Nancy > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ Ryan Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
