Geoff,
One problem that I've found in both Firefox & Safari is that when I increase
the font size the search box and its button disappear from the page.
Hope Stewart
On 4/8/05 7:18 PM, "Geoff Pack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all the comments on the new ABC home page. I did the front-end
> coding, so I'm responsible for *some* of the issues raised.
>
> The resizing thing:
> I would have also preferred a scalable layout or a stylesheet switch, but the
> design differences are sufficiently great that I had to build 2 html pages.
> They are pulling different includes, in a different order for a start. I
> tested the script pretty extensively, but if you have problems, email me and
> I'll look into it.
>
> The ABC (the New Media department anyway) is moving generally towards
> fixed-width centered layouts. Again, not my preference.
>
> Navigation:
> The previous drop-down menus didn't test very well, and the click-through
> stats showed the in-page links were used much more. The new global nav and the
> "Explore the ABC" were quite popular.
>
> The global nav coding was constrained by the fact that it has to go on all ABC
> pages as a single include file. Putting the style tag in the include (and so
> inside the body) was a compromise to get it to work without having to edit
> code across the whole of the ABC. We are fixing it for the new/recent pages
> soon. Old pages was will probably stay broken.
>
> The Banner:
> Making it an html image instead of a CSS background was done so the banner
> appears in CSS impaired browsers and in PDAs where the rest of the page will
> be unstyled.
>
> Font-sizing:
> Constant source of argument with designers, who always want it too small. Up
> to now I've been using the body {font-size:0.76em} trick (most of the recent
> ABC TV sites for example.) But the differences in IE when browser text size
> settings become much too great. So I've started using font-size:76% instead,
> which seems to work better.
>
> Accessibility:
> We haven't paid a lot of attention to it apart from making sure the html is
> clean/semantic and adding the skip links. we test pretty widely across
> browsers. Point taken about the missing title attributes, but given the number
> of links, and the fact they come from some many different people in different
> program areas, it is probably not going to get fixed.
>
> BTW, if there is anything that particularly annoys (or pleases) you, send
> feedback via the contact form if you want it formally logged. We do make
> changes based on feedback we receive.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> Geoff Pack
> Developer,
> ABC New Media and Digital Services
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