John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
Hi All,
its very early days but I am trying to tie down a solid cross-browser
3 column liquid layout - I'm really only at 'wireframe' stage but have
shoved some content in to make sense:
www.project.ex16.co.uk
I am looking for cross-browser friendly resizing of the browser
window, wanting the left and right columns to remain the same with a
fluid centre column. A constant padding around the whole site to show
the slight gradient in the 'body' - and the site should not exceed
1000px in width. It should also handle resizing of text ok.
I next want to look at full disabled access etc - can anyone recommend
a solid and well represented, up to date resource for this area of web
design?? Please do not say google it - I want advice from people who
have used it - there are websites and even published books out there
turning out code that simply doesn't work to the degree it should.
all comments greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Max.
You have a nice site going, Max. I do not think that min/max width is
supported in IE, although I think it is in IE7. For IE/6.0 and down I
think you will need to use your favorite IE min/max workaround. If you
do not have a favorite work around, you may want to get things going
well cross-browser at width 100% first (sort of first things first
principle, if you will). Faux column sidebars
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/> might be a nice touch,
too. As far as a layout is concerned, we trip into personal opinion.
You could stick with what you've got. Or, the 3 column layout on this
page <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/> is robust,
stable and works well cross-browser (and the tutorial includes
implantation of equal height columns-- faux columns). And, primary
content first in source order variations on the same negative margin
concept may be found here: <http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/> (although
some of these become more difficult to implement the any column longest
principle).
But either way, the zooming (up or down) of text is not necessarily a
layout function, but rather one of understanding the Web-- how she
works, and how we can work with her, to to deliver meaningful content,
at any screen resolution or zoom set. Just letting stuff (content) flow
without restricting height on containers sometimes helps to resolve some
of these issues.
HTH.
~dL
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