On Monday 17 October 2005 12:33, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > 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 I know. However, you can fake transparency by pre-rendering the image over the wanted background in your favorite image processing program. I mean like this:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html > > 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. Not at all. The point is - if you specify e.g. the menu width in pixels, you ignore the fact that on high-res displays, the user may have chosen a font which is much larger in terms of pixels. > > > 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? No, not really, its only the easiest way to demonstrate the problem. It also occurs for people with non-standard font sizes, e.g. for people with bad eyes or very high/very low resolution monitors. I always try to minimize the use of pixels as unit. Mixing them both for related stuff will of course make problems, but as long as you use em's for most stuff, and pixels only for e.g. images or image-related stuff, you will be perfectly fine, and make the above-mentioned users much more happy! ;-) -- Ciao, / / .o. /--/ ..o / / ANS ooo ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
