Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
I'm going to look into the jello layout and see if that can accomodate my wishes. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:17 PM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid la

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-31 Thread David Laakso
Mark Fellowes wrote: > > > David, > > You mean with the comments ? > > > Mark > > > > > > Yet to set the max-width but it seems that while it's now a > liquid-elastic hybrid (?), I didn't realize it would lose the ability > to fill up the view port , the advantage of a liquid design. It does > l

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
 David, You mean with the comments ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:34 PM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout > Yet to set the max-width but it seems t

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-30 Thread David Laakso
Mark Fellowes wrote: > I've reset my liquid layout page to the specifics below. Body - font-size > 62.5% > wrapper in ems > all other elements in %'s > and fonts in ems. > > Yet to set the max-width but it seems that while it's now a liquid-elastic > hybrid (?), I didn't realize it would lose th

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-30 Thread Mark Fellowes
://pamshop.com/Template1/exp3.html Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:59 PM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout BTW: the whole thing about scaling the width in em for a

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-29 Thread mat
V.V.Nice! works in (latest OS + browsers) Safari Version 2.0.3 (417.9.2) Mac + PC Firefox 1.5.0.3 PC Opera 8.52 PC Netscape 8.1 IE7.0.5346.5 Beta 2 My 1024 display has the big words overlapping at text size X5 in Firefox. On 5/29/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Fellow

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Fellowes wrote: > Regarding the issues [with] [max-width] and IE, are there any > workarounds ? Think so... Here's one solution, using a rather complex IE-expression: ...but it isn't without its problems. Note: I'm just testing, and haven't fine-tun

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout Now, if anyone knows how to make an IE-expression (or javascript) to be triggered by, and "lock" max-width to, a percentage of window-width, then IE6 can be given a perfect 'conditional elastic' solution too. Georg -- h

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Fellowes wrote: > http://pamshop.com/Template1/ala_elastic.html > > What if I set body (font-size: 50%) then increased the wrapper width > to 72ems ? Does that still keep things in relative proportion ? Doesn't help any, and will make the layout run into 'minimum font size' imposed scaling-

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:41 PM -07:00 To: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout Here's another question , same topic. In the article by Patrick Griffiths http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ he u

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
Here's another question , same topic. In the article by Patrick Griffiths http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ he uses a 100% font-size for the body and then makes the width at 36ems so that (if I'm correct in my understanding) the text and elements scale in proportion to each other. It

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
max-width being set in ems or percentages ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:34 AM -07:00 To: Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout You can combine elastic and liquid

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 27/05/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Fellowes wrote: > > I had a thought (not a revelation) and it seems to me that perhaps > > elastic layouts are good for users who increase text size and liquid > > layouts are better for those with wider displays. It seems that > > li

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Fellowes wrote: > I had a thought (not a revelation) and it seems to me that perhaps > elastic layouts are good for users who increase text size and liquid > layouts are better for those with wider displays. It seems that > liquid layouts fall apart easier with text size increase. Both (a

[css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-27 Thread Mark Fellowes
I had a thought (not a revelation) and it seems to me that perhaps elastic layouts are good for users who increase text size and liquid layouts are better for those with wider displays. It seems that liquid layouts fall apart easier with text size increase. Mark