Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-21 Thread Austin, Darrel
> Though I note that it is, somewhat ironically, itself a fixed-width > column of text. :) Not just that, but EXTREMELY wide. Good example of 'do what we say, not as we do'. FYI, if it bothers anyone else, I built a scriptlet that will covert ALAP's CSS to a nice liquid-width layout: http://mnte

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Christian Heilmann
> > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ > > It's kind of ironic that the above site requires a 1000 pixel-wide > viewport :-) > > Sorry - just couldn't resist. Please do. The amount of comments you get as an author about problems of the site that publishes your stuff is simply staggering.

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Al Sparber
> I'm assuming you mean 640x480 and 1024x768. But your goal should be > to make pages that work at any (reasonable) resolution, not just a > couple of popular ones. The difference is between "static" and > "fluid" or "elastic" layout design. > > There's no one simple solution, but there are sever

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread ~davidLaakso
Mike wrote: > I am having nightmares fixing CSS files and HTML pages which were initially > designed for > a 1024x640 screen resolution. > I have been playing around with position:absolute, width:100% etc > No luck so far. > > Does anyone know of good solutions that I could test and try to make >

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Mike
it's typo. I meant 800x600. Thanks everyone for your advices, lots of work ahead apparently to fix this. That's just horrible. Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Austin, Darrel wrote: >> Does anyone know of good solutions that I could test and try >> to make the files compatible for both

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Austin, Darrel wrote: >> Does anyone know of good solutions that I could test and try >> to make the files compatible for both resolutions (600x400 >> and 1024x640) ? > > First of all, don't design for screen resolutions. It's mostly > irrelevant. What matters are browser viewport sizes, and tha

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/20/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meanwhile, this article is a good starting point: > > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ Though I note that it is, somewhat ironically, itself a fixed-width column of text. :) -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/20/06, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of good solutions that I could test and try to make > the files compatible for both resolutions (600x400 and 1024x640) ? I'm assuming you mean 640x480 and 1024x768. But your goal should be to make pages that work at any (reasonable) r

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Austin, Darrel
> Does anyone know of good solutions that I could test and try > to make the files compatible for both resolutions (600x400 > and 1024x640) ? First of all, don't design for screen resolutions. It's mostly irrelevant. What matters are browser viewport sizes, and that can be anything and everythin

[css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Mike
Hi, I am having nightmares fixing CSS files and HTML pages which were initially designed for a 1024x640 screen resolution. I have been playing around with position:absolute, width:100% etc No luck so far. Does anyone know of good solutions that I could test and try to make the files compatible f