On 13 Mar 2009, Frank de Bruijn wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> wrote: >> [email protected] wrote: >> > Taking an example from the site below: >> > http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/H-Flowers/Herb%20Robert.htm >> > >> > What aspect of either Netsurf or of the site in question makes the >> > layout so appalingly awful in Netsurf? With captions well away from >> > the photo in question, and often overlaid and half-obscured by other >> > bits or even only the bottom half of the text visible. > >> The layout is similarly all over the place in Firefox3 on Windows. So >> it looks like it is the site that has the problem rather than NetSurf. > > In Netsurf and Firefox the images 'flow' onto the next 'line', just like > text would if the window wasn't wide enough. IE and Opera display them > side by side, even if that forces people to scroll the window sideways. > I haven't checked what 'the standards' say about that. > > The captions have absolute positioning, so they end up more or less > where they were supposed to be. Their visibility depends on the CSS > z-index. I don't know whether Netsurf supports that. > > Solution? Use absolute positioning for the images as well or redesign > the site (forcing people to scroll browser windows sideways is evil).
Oh, well, I'll leave it up to you to tell them that :-) -- Cheers Roger If I was going there, I wouldn't start from here.
