At 09:05 AM 06/01/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On 31 May 98, Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
>> See http://www.marcomandmore.com/btsw/
>> This is a work in progress. The design uses a number of elements
>> that are supposed to align closely without gaps. On my PC there are
>> no gaps. A Mac user told me he sees a gap between the top thin
>> orange bar (horizontal) and the "Special Announcement" section. I
>> can't see it, nor can I figure out what I can tweak in the code to
>> make it go away. Do you see this?
>
>Hiya Barry... hmm, I don't see the gap on my NS 4.0/Wintel box
>either, but one aspect of your code catches my eye:
---snip---
>So what we have is a <table> and <td> widths that equal 1020, but
>actual image widths that total 1032; in the past I have
>experienced anomalous spacing from browser to browser and platform to
>platform in such cases, where the software tries to reconcile these
>out-of-synch width attributes. Just a thought...
Yes, you're right they don't add up. When I was playing around with this
page trying to get it to look the way I wanted, I found that by doing this
I got the alignment I was looking for. I know it is technically wrong.
Perhaps it is affecting the Mac browser display...
>As an aside, I'm curious as to why you're using those two wide GIF
><td>s side by side to create the orange bar. On my system it forces
>the bar to extend well past the right margin of the screen at both
>800x600 and 1024x768... seems a little odd. (Just what are those
>mysterious "extension cells" for anyway? :)
I was wondering if anyone would comment on this ;-)
The client and the graphic designer who came up with the overall look and
design of this page (it wasn't me, I turned an example pdf file into HTML
and made it work) decided that it was important to them that the orange and
blue horizontal bars HAD to extend continuously to the right with NO
right-side gap between them and the browser window. They didn't want to see
any of that dreaded "white space" on that side.
I explained to them that if I did this they would get a horizontal scroll
bar in the browser and site visitors would try to scroll to the right,
wondering what was over there, and of course they would find essentially
nothing.
IMO, this is bad web page design. But I was specifically requested to do
this. I don't like it though.
Barry
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