Re the fixed font size argument with your designer, take a screenshot, reduce it to 55% of the size (assuming you have an 800x600 monitor) then resave it and send it to the designer and say it is a screenshot as seen by someone on a high resolution medium to high end system. If you need to you can refer them to me as being the person who complained.
I do like the design and it doesn't have to fall apart using relative units of measurements. I didn't check but I assume you used one of the suckerfish variants for the menu. I use one on my site in ems. Besides it looks a bit lonely sitting in the middle of my browser even in slate mode where my max width is 1050. I did appreciate that you used 729 for the width which means most tablet pc users would still be able to view it in slate mode without a horizontal scrollbar. So that's to the plus side. Re the one glitch in Safari on the first dropdown, I seem to recall something a month or two ago on the css-d list about Safari and suckerfish dropdowns. Might want to poke around in their archives or wiki. http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Cheryl D. Wise Certified Professional Web Developer Microsoft FrontPage MVP http://wiserways.com -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Caudill Cheryl D Wise wrote: > Looks nice, works well and I didn't notice the lag in Firefox > mentioned earlier. I did see more of a lag in IE both in some of the > images loading and on the first rollover. Which brings up another > point, if I were just using IE I wouldn't stay on the site long > because on my tablet pc the text is too small to read comfortably and > won't resize in IE. I tried. 11px text is fine on an 800x600 screen > but not on a 1400x1050 where there are 140 pixels per physical inch. Yeah. I'm working for the designer. The designer says: "fixed-width fonts!". I says: "yawsah, massa". Nothing doing on that one :( I really did try to make the site accessible with exception to the fixed-width fonts though... Please don't tell SlimJimBuk on me :) > Because you specifically asked for Mac checks I walked over to my Mac > and pulled it up in Safari. Download appeared even slower than on IE 6. > Everything look about the same with the exception that the first > dropdown entry "Overview" is not showing. Instead the top of the curve > above the search box shows through and makes the line impossible to > read. You better hope nobody using IE 5.2 for the Mac want to visit > the site though. If I knew how to take a screen shot on the Mac I'd > post a picture but it is a mess. The menu bar is at the top of the > page. No dropdowns. The legal forms logo doesn't show up at all and > the other two boxes on the top for ads and shopping cart have the text > at the top of the boxes not as they appear on the other browsers. On > my Mac the screen resolution is 1024x768 and the text size is fine on both browsers. Well crap on a stick. I don't mind putting more time into it and trying to fix the problems, but I've got no way to test and browsercam is SO SLOOOOOOOWWWW... I've really got to do something about not having a Mac to test on. > I'm on 5mps broadband for all the computers/browsers tested with. > Windows is tablet PC aka Windows XP - SP 2, Firefox 1.0, IE 6, screen > resolution 1050x1400 (I'm viewing in slate mode). Mac is OS X 10.3 > with Safari (whatever the latest version is since it does push updates) and IE 5.2. Thank you *very* much Cheryl! I'll alert my client and see what's doin'... I'm thinking this might be a case of serving IE 5.2 mac an unstyled page :( ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings or add a password: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
