Re: Chelume - My Conlang website up.

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:49:12PM -0600, Caleb Hines wrote:
> > <noises of annoyment>: You've used a frame! Argh.
>
> Is that a problem? I've only used it to keep a single consistent
> navigational bar across the top. I thought all modern browsers supported
> frames?
>
> Darn non-IE browsers. Can't they all just get along? I don't have access to
> any other browsers at home to test it with (except a reeeally old version
> of Netscape which I rarely use and whcih doesn't allow stylesheets at all
> and which chokes on most JavaScript). I could try testing the pages with
> the current version of Netscape at school in a couple of days, but I'm not
> sure how much it will help. Won't it either look good in one browser and
> bad in another, or vice-versa? I figured so many people use IE I might as
> well cater to the vast majority.i
Mozilla (or the Netscape derivative for that matter) has, of course, no
problems with frames. However, [insert fundamentalist counterargument
here]. CSS floats can probably be used instead of frames.

>
> I'll bet when you get to the Alphebet page, you get nothing but the XML
> source code. If so, I can't help you there, because I'm keeping the XML no
> matter what! ;P
A lose-lose situation. IE will only parse the XML/XSLT when served as
text/xml; Mozilla and derivatives only when served as
application/xhtml+xml (the standard, of course).

>
> > That aside, I'm also getting horizontal scrolling
> > which might be from the h2, but might not be.
>
> Odd. I'm not sure I can fix that one either. The h2's are set to 100%
> width, which, in IE, makes them span 100% of the non-padded width of the
> bordered div. If there is horizontal scrolling it probably means that your
> browser is interpreting 100% as 100% of the screen, in which case the total
> page width, along with the padding and margins, would be greater than 100%.
>
>
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