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Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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lugnet.publish.html
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Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:36:26 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Gary Thomas wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Thorn wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Gary Thomas wrote:
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It may be off topic, but I think it would be very cool if the site was
designed using CSS layout, i.e. no nested tables. A great example site is:
http://www.csszengarden.com
It would make site development very straightforward, and allow people to
switch look and feels very easily.
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I agree with Gary, except for one big thing.
Precise CSS positioning that’s cross-browser compatible (IE, Mozilla, Opera,
Netscape, Mac) is a pain royalé, sitting right next to impossible. I’ve done
it and it’s nuts. Unless you don’t care if your stuff is misaligned by five
pixels or so, you’re guaranteed a long, frustrating coding session. What
looks terrific in IE is a shambles in another browser.
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Very true, but I’ve found that simply specifying the correct doctype for
pages works like magic, at least on modern browsers:
HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd”
Using this works amazingly well - the results are nearly identical across the
browsers I’ve checked. More info can be found at:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/journey/
Later,
Gary
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OTOH, if you *do* get it to work, it looks spectacular. :)
-Mike
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I might also suggest that striving for looking terrific in IE first is a
source of your frustration. See especially comments 35 and 36 in this post by
Doug Bowman at Stopdesign:
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/01/26/ie_factor.html.
Constantine
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