On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 09:55 -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Using AlphaImageLoader is a pain in the ass, but at least it's an option > available. Doesn't work under Crossover IE, but who does serious > browsing that way anyway. :) IE7 will support transparent png, but I > have a feeling that MS will take the easy way out and just implicitly > use the dx filter if the png being loaded is not fully opaque. >
Beat the gits at their own game I say! Oh, and if you run IE through cedega (cvs or commercial) it does work! But that can be a pain to get running. But hang on a minute, WTF ARE YOU DOING RUNNING IE IN LINUX!!! ITS A NECESSARY EVIL IN WINDOWS AT TIMES BUT FCS MAN, THERE IS A VIRUS WITH ITS BEADY EYES ON YOUR BROWSER > Think page not screen. Agreed! Well said! Hence the reason that > fixed-width layouts are inferior to free-form layouts: they make > assumptions about the user's screen that may or may not be true. At the > very least you need to cater to some assumed lowest common denominator > (800x600 in your case). > A page is generally vertically laid out, portrait. This tends to work best for me. The white space either side will be reduced somewhat, shadows and wotnot will be added eventually. > Interesting goal. But I run Freevo at 640x480 on my tv. (NTSC is 480 > lines. Running at 800x600 requires the video card to do > interpolation.) THERE IS ALWAYS ONE! lol > Yes, CSS is a tragic accident when it comes to page layout. Why is > vertically aligning a block element impossible without ugly hacks? Why > are the kind of variable width layouts I'm talking about horribly > difficult to get right? Because of microsoft! > > I used to be one of those CSS purists but after enough battles with CSS > to do simple layouts, I have since become disillusioned about the value > of CSS. Some day CSS will stop sucking for page layout. When billy boy and steve (baldy chair chucking) ballmer skate to work? > > I certainly don't mean to say it's impossible to do arbitrarily complex > layouts with CSS, but getting those layouts to work right on both Gecko > and Trident (not to mention Opera and KHTML) is extremely time consuming > when the same layout could be accomplished with a table that pretty much > always Just Works with minimal fuss. This represents an enormous > failure of CSS in the real world. There is no problem with Gecko/Opera/KHTML, they all tend to render pretty much identically, they have the odd difference but nothing that ruins a page.... Guess what! Its microsoft again with their 'we've got the biggest market share' line screwing the world! I really do hate catering for the microsoft club, its pretty damned difficult to stop IE doing what it wants to do, the CSS support is only core CSS1 and javascript isn't anything to do with netscape as far as MS are concerned. ---- OK well, I'm going to try and make the page layout expand/contract about 150px, that gives it a reasonably large use of the screen from 800x600 -> 1280x1024 whilst still preventing the neck ache caused by continually moving your head from left to right on 100% width pages. The other thing that really gets on my tits is the colours, they irritate me just as much as I intended them to get to everyone else, a sort of washed out bluey nonsense (i just clicked on the first blue of the right sort of shade in DW). I'm going to look at some deep purple/umber orange/yellow/blue combinations see what kind of swatches I can get out. The logo will soon get a slight rework too, you'll see the lower half of the VO device tipping into the top menu, the word freevo will be moved up, and "Home theatre platform" will be moved to a separate image, and aligned to the top right of the screen, and this will change to other things, I think maybe three or four tag lines, and a user comment underneath in the top right will help people feel more like this is a community after all. I've been looking at a pure CSS shadow methodology, which i think could work, however I'm still getting the impression that life will be easier with tables... 2006 is supposed to be a table free world?! ------------------------------------------------------- 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
