Hi Justin,
> > Same with IE 5.5, I would preferr sans-serif too.
>
> My personal believe in website design is to not play with fonts. ...
Yes, you are right.
> > the menu boxes to the top left seem not to scale width when setting
> > different text sizes in the browser. Only with the smallest font
> > all menu entries are un-wrapped, with increasing font size some
> > entries are broken up onto 2 lines, which doesn't look nice.
>
> Hmmm.. Ok, Hard one to decide what to do. I normally set a constant
> percentage - 15% I think I use. The focus is the text of the main page
> so if the menus resize with the text size then they can overtake the
> main page text. This starts getting nasty with a lot of the pages were
> you have fixed-width text in code examples etc. As the menus are mainly
> secondary, I don't mind if they line wrap (some of them do anyway due to
> the length of the title).
I had a look at the HTML and played a little. In the Menu Boxes
you use <LI> without the sourrounding <UL>. If one adds <UL>, the
default margins eat up far too much space, so I invented a new
style:
UL.noindent {
MARGIN: 0mm; MARGIN-LEFT: 5mm;
}
and used it:
<TD class=SidebarEntry><FONT class=SidebarEntryFont>
<UL class=noindent>
<LI><A class=noxref href="http://code.j3d.org/cvs.html";>CVS Info</A>
<LI><A class=noxref href="http://code.j3d.org/layout.html";>What's
Available</A>
...
<LI><A class=noxref
href="http://code.j3d.org/contrib.html";>Contributors</A>
</UL>
</FONT></LI></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
The result, as it shows up in my IE 5.5, can be seen at
http://privat.schlund.de/O/OSG-eV/other/ul_noindent.png
as opposed to the original version at
http://privat.schlund.de/O/OSG-eV/other/no_ul.png, both with
default (medium) text size.
With largest text size some long menu words are cut off at the
end but still readable.
I consider my addition to look better, but I didn't test in any
other browser (don't have the time just now).
regards
Georg
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