Gav.... wrote: > Ok, so 550036 has moved MOTD to the left and removed relative positioning. > > It looks much better than it did and does not overlap content. > > Where it was floated right, it caused all sorts of issues, not easily > fixed due to the fact that MOTD and/or surrounding content divs and classes > could be optionally added/removed at any time. There is as far as I can see > no good all round fix for this, taking browser sizes, browser versions and > screen resolutions into account. The current fix works fine for all those > but may not 'look' as good as if it were prevalent on the right side.
It is a shame. The original right-hand position was also trying to utilise the whitespace at the right of the Table Of Contents (ToC). Option #1 has even more wasted space. > I do have one idea to improve the look and keep it where it is on the > left, hopefully being an agreed final fix for this MOTD position. > > I would like to propose that we create a new MOTD class in the same > style as .note, .warning and .fixme. We'll give it a unique color from > the rest but will be displayed in exactly the same way, from the left going > as far across the screen as necessary, with a title section and content > section the same as .note etc. > > We can call it .information with 'Information' being the default label for > the top part which can be over-ridden with your own label, the MOTD on the > current forrest index page would instead use this with a label of 'Latest > release 0.8', the content area then having '18 April 2007 Forrest-0.8 > released: Features the Locationmap. (More)' There is no configuration for the "label" attribute. Perhaps just use a concise box with slightly bigger border on all sides, using the existing colours. > I'll do a mock up in a test-sample site and attach the graphic to this issue > if you like but I'm sure you know what I mean. > > So we have choices :- > > 1. Keep it as I have changed it to currently - to the left and still the > traditional MOTD. It wasn't a "traditional look". It was just a hack to fix the docs during the 0.7 release. No effort was spent on the look. I would prefer it to be more prominent CSS emphasis. > 2. Create a new version of MOTD in the style of .note etc -- still keeping > the same way that we apply the MOTD, just the style changes. I reckon that it would be too bulky and not stand out sufficiently. > 3. Revert and try something else, but it will be difficult to get it right > and keep it right for all scenarios. The above two will work in all > scenarios. > > 4. Something else. > > Thoughts ? Remember that these MOTD notes are intended to be very short. The content needs to also be able to fit into the bottom of the left-hand panel. We are already utilising the space to the right of the Title for Font Size and alternate formats, so cannot put it there. There are a number of pieces of "top matter". a) Title and its right-hand friends seem fine as-is. b) Optional header/abstract is shown above the ToC. Would it be possible to have a div for this second set? Then perhaps include the "motd" to the right-hand side. It should then collapse gracefully if those two pieces of content are missing. FLW. This is probably how i should have done it to start with, but was in a rush at the time. -David
