Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-16 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/16 Gunlaug Sørtun : > Ib Jensen wrote: > Think I got the above about right. Hard to compress "a thousand choices" > into a mail. Thank you very much for the explanation. I must invite my self for a long weekend, for a little chit-chat about developing sites. ;-) -- Regards / Mhv. Ib

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ib Jensen wrote: > By this, you mean that, how should I write it: > [...] Some say "elastic" when they mean "fluid layouts", while some say "elastic" when they mean "em-sized layouts". Confusing. To cut through; for the basic layout, I mean: 1: Fluid layout: all widths in '%'. (One can also us

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/15 Gunlaug Sørtun : > Ib Jensen wrote: > > First: get the terms, and sizes, right. > > Resolution is somewhere between 72 and 300dpi and most viewports/screens > are between 640 and 3600px wide. Resolution vs pixel-width affect actual > screen size, so a 2400px wide screen with 220dpi resol

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:12:39 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Gunlaug Sørtun to my mailbox: > Ib Jensen wrote: > > > That means roughly, that a "developer" should have at least three > > screens with different resolutions and X number of browsers > > installed, on different systems, to i

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ib Jensen wrote: > That means roughly, that a "developer" should have at least three > screens with different resolutions and X number of browsers > installed, on different systems, to in fact have a chance to guess > which size of units to use. Not at all. You can check all conditions on a sc

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/15 Bill Brown : > Ib Jensen wrote: > If you don't care about IE, or you're not using full-height column > backgrounds, you can get away with this: I do care about IE ( a lot of faul words ), to a certain limit IE6 and up. And wish to use full-height columns without graphics, just colors.

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Ib Jensen wrote: > The "template" should fill a total of 90% of the viewport / screen. > I want the header and footer in the "template" to fill 90% of the > viewport / screen. > The left- and content-column in the "template" should only fill 80% of > the viewport / screen. > I don't know if this cl

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/15 Gunlaug Sørtun : > Ib Jensen wrote: > My viewport / screen is 3840pixel wide on one machine, but it is > 1280pixel wide on another machine and 1440pixel wide on yet another. Kind a the same problem here: I'm developing on a 19" widescreen, resolution unknown for the moment. I'm writin

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/15 Gunlaug Sørtun : > Ib Jensen wrote: > >> How do I change these measurements to: em > > What are those hypothetical '%' you want to convert to hypothetical > 'em', relative to? > That is: what is your hypothetical 100% starting-width? > You can't convert anything to 'em' without having an

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/15 Bill Brown : > Bill Brown wrote: >/* FLOAT BEHAVIOR SWITCH FOR IE */ >#page-panel { display: inline-block; } >#page-panel { display: block; } > I lied: remove the position:relative from that last block. That's an > artifact from another template. Sorry. It should be as corrected abov

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ib Jensen wrote: > The "template" should fill a total of 90% of the viewport / screen. > I don't know if this clears something. Not really. My viewport / screen is 3840pixel wide on one machine, but it is 1280pixel wide on another machine and 1440pixel wide on yet another. No problem filling a

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Bill Brown wrote: > /* FLOAT BEHAVIOR SWITCH FOR IE */ > #page-panel { > display: inline-block; > } > #page-panel { > display: block; > position:relative; > } I lied: remove the position:relative from that last block. That's an artifact from another template. Sorry. -

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Ib Jensen wrote: > I want a 2 column design with header and footer, a left nav- and > info-column, and a right content-column. Centered. > Header and footer : 90% > These two columns together: 80% > Left column: 20-25% > Content column : 80-75% > How do I change these measurements to: em Use ems.

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ib Jensen wrote: > How do I change these measurements to: em What are those hypothetical '%' you want to convert to hypothetical 'em', relative to? That is: what is your hypothetical 100% starting-width? You can't convert anything to 'em' without having an absolute starting point. regards

[css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Ib Jensen
Hi. I'm looking for some kind of formular to calculate sizes. This is a hypotetical question: I want a 2 column design with header and footer, a left nav- and info-column, and a right content-column. Centered. Lets say the size are: Header and footer : 90% These two columns together: 80% Le