Ahh, gotcha! I go back and forth on the relative merits of the whole 
"SEO navbar below the main content" thing & here's another argument 
against it. Either that or I need to set overflow to hidden on the 
header, which is not optimal either.

Thanks for the link to the doc; that helps a lot. Friendliest RTFM I've 
ever gotten on a listserv, in fact ;-)

Cheers!

Ross Grady

Simon Fraser wrote:
> Your layout is very sensitive to font size.  Try changing the font  
> size in Firefox or Safari via the menus.
> Your two header bars grow and shrink as the size changes, but the  
> absolutely-positioned sidebar
> stays in the same place because of the pixel-based top value.
> 
> Safari on iPhone does some auto text sizing, which can affect layout  
> like this. You can disable
> this via CSS if you wish:
> 
> <http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/AdjustingtheTextSize/chapter_5_section_3.html
>  
>  >
> 
> Simon
> 
> On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:56 PM, grady wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> What's the current best place to go for documentation of iPhone CSS
>> weirdness? (kind of like quirksmode.org but Mobile Safari-focused?)
>>
>> I prefer to avoid browser-detection where possible, especially when I
>> don't have the cycles to develop mobile-only versions of sites, so I  
>> try
>> for as much compatibility as I can instead. Today I was confounded  
>> by a
>> couple of odd quirks.
>>
>> This test/example page looks more or less the same in every browser I
>> tried (IE7 & Safari 3 on WinXP, Safari 3 & Firefox for Mac, Firefox 3,
>> [webkit-based] Epiphany, & Opera 9 under Ubuntu) *except* for Mobile
>> Safari on my iPhone:
>>
>> http://twaiku.org
>>
>> You'll notice that the left column renders a good 15 pixels further
>> south on all the desktop browsers than on the iPhone browser. (it's
>> meant to lock up with the header, but I shifted it down so I could see
>> how far off it was)
>>
>> Also, in the uppermost header div, the text spans on the left & right
>> render smaller than the center span on the iPhone, but the same size  
>> on
>> the desktop browsers (as they should, near as I can tell, from my  
>> CSS).
>>
>> None of this is really make-or-break for me, but it *has* piqued my
>> curiosity & I'm having a hard time putting it down & getting real work
>> done ;-)
>>
>> Any tips on where to look (or interesting hypotheses about the cause)
>> will be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> > 

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