On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 12:21 +0200, Hans Meine wrote:
> Hi Karl!
> 
> In my Konqueror, the site looks strange, because you obviously did not set 
> the 
> background-color to white, but rely on the browser to do so.  My background 
> color is set from my main color scheme, so the images stand out with their 
> white, non-transparent backgrounds.

Oversight, sorry will be fixed.


> 
> On Sunday 16 October 2005 16:43, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > I am going to overlay the logo a little, it will slightly encroach on
> > the menu, that way using a little less space. This requires a serious
> > look at the css, and also I must use a DX filter so I don't exclude
> > microsoft ie users.
> Why do you think you need such a hack?

For PNG transparency. IE 6 handles this like a motorbike with a buckled
wheel

> 
> > Also the background of this header space will be a repeating image, a
> > roll of film and a gentle colour variance. at least I hope it works
> > when I've done the image.
> Nice idea.
> 
> > The site is still reasonable on 1600x1200 but websites should ALWAYS
> > be designed to work on low res displays, think page not screen! I've
> > specifically designed the site to work at 800x600 so it is easily
> > viewable on a freevo box running firefox on a tv.
> Please, if you insist on fixed-width, make it fixed in terms of em's, not 
> pixels.
Relative to font size? I'll give it a try, but I recon it'll kill the
layout.

> 
> > A variable width page wouldn't look as good,
> Try Ctrl-+ in Konqi or Firefox, that proves the opposite.
> 

I see the point, but how many people zoom font? Opera allows you to zoom
an entire page, which works much better than just zooming a font. This
as far as I can tell is the only reason you suggested em?

> > and i'd have to use 
> > tables to get the layout working, which i would prefer not to do.
> I don't think you need tables, and I like your no-tables preference very much.
> 
It is difficult to get variable width to work in ie without using
tables, ie is very bad at rendering CSS layouts so there are compromises
which have to be made.




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