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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 05/29/06 00:46
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Stephen Poley wrote:
> In fact I've just tried out the BBC site in IE: it's a bit weird.
> The index pages and side-bars seem to have fixed size text, but the
> main article text and some other components are resizable.
Could you be more specific about where you saw that? When I look at
www.bbc.co.uk, the texts, where they are sized at all, seem to be
sized in em units, which is good, and IE seems happy to re-size them
at my choice. My complaint would be that it's refusing to fit in the
window width that I gave it, and forcing a left/right scroll bar,
without any evident content-related need to.
On the other hand news.bbc.co.uk seems to do all(?) of its text sizing
in px units, with the expected negative consequences in IE. Of course
that too refuses to fit in my chosen window width...
Neither of them seem capable of making up their mind whether they are
HTML/4.01 or XHTML/1.0 Appendix C, which at least partly accounts for
their many syntax errors. It's kind of pathetic that they have a load
of kinky browser-specific adjustments in their stylesheet, including
the notorious "Tantek hack", and yet they seem incapable of producing
elementary HTML with halfways accurate syntax. But I digress.
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