On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 15:04 +0200, Hans Meine wrote: > 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
Yes but you can't overlay that on top of another image and overlapping another div without having a massive degree of piddling about with per pixel distances for the alignment. Which is what I'm going to do. It is much easier to use a CSS holly hack and direct X, why fake when you can exploit the inefficiencies to your advantage! i.e. /* FYI IE gets confused about the start/end of a comment here */ /* HOLLY HACK DX FILTER /*/ filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='img/b_login.png', sizingMethod='scale'); /* Direct X processes our image through a proper RGBA filter. */ /* END OF HOLLY HACK */ ;P so there! > > > > 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! ;-) > I see your point. hopefully it won't be too difficult to approach this fairly fresh. The header/footer templates are all really basic classified html divs so I can probably simply make a few modifications and get on with things. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
