2009/12/9 Maslowski, Eric <emasl...@umich.edu>:
> Hello all,
> I've mostly been silently following the list here and the advice given has
> helped me in a few instances. So, thanks! What I've run into has completely
> stumped me and I'm hoping someone here may have seen the problem before or
> knows a quick workaround/fix. The site I've been working on (at link below)
> works as expected on FF, IE, and Safari on a Windows system. (Vista & XP)
> However, when the same pages are viewed on a Mac (FF & Safari) the
> alignments are off, there seems to be additional kerning on the text, etc. In
> short, it's a mess. Everything is fully updated.
>
> Trying everything from using absolute positioning of my DIVs to specifying
> every relevant component for my CSS classes I am unable to track this down.
> Using Firebug everything seems to check out which just adds to the
> frustration. Validating the HTML and CSS checks out as well. Has anyone else
> encountered this or could offer some advice? I'm really at a loss here.
>
> simple page that exhibits problem (clipping at bottom, images are not where
> they are supposed to be, etc.)
> http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/Temp/newsite/services/visualization/viz_intro_process.html
>
> The "projects" section has other offset and alignment issues...again, fine on
> Windows but not on Mac.
>
> CSS (but it's a bit messy from my haste)
> http://um3d.dc.umich.edu/Temp/newsite/shared/styles/main.css
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric
.tab_content_bg {
...
height:460px;
...
overflow:hidden;
...
}
This cannot work with text. You cannot control the text settings of
the user, you don't know how tall the container has to be. It's a
framed-sort of design you have here.
Ingo
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