|  | Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 07/05/07 13:10 
David Segall wrote:
 > "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
 >>David Segall wrote:
 >>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
 >>>> David Segall wrote:
 >>>>> Can you post the URL of a site of yours, or anyone else, that does
 >>>>> this?
 >>>>
 >>>> You may look at a couple of mine if you wish.
 >>>>
 >>>> http://www.freezeblock.com/
 >>>
 >>> At 800x600 <http://www.freezeblock.com/homeowner.php> looks fine
 >>> except for the link to the installation process which seems to have an
 >>> error in the line (Firefox 2.0.0.4).
 >>
 >>What is the error you see, and what told you of the error?
 
 > When the link spans more than one line the box breaks and the first
 > and second line overlap.
 
 Ah. What you are seeing is the 1px border giving the _appearance_ of an
 overlap. If I remove the border, the line wraps with the same amount of
 top and bottom margin/padding as any other paragraph.
 
 I just changed the border of the link paragraph from border: 1px to
 border-bottom: 1px and if you look again, you'll see that there is no
 issue with "wrapping" or "overwriting".
 
 >> Do you really use your browser window maximized?  <g>
 >
 > Usually. I'm not good at managing multiple windows on one screen and
 > I have a second small monitor if I want to keep some reference data
 > visible.
 
 Dual monitors, and one is 1680px with a maximized browser. This is a
 rare circumstance, I would wager. Don't you keep your editor and your
 browser(s) open side-by-side while working? I do, and my monitor is only
 1152px wide. Sure, they overlap a bit.
 
 I'd also say it would be a reasonable assumption that people who
 actually do have a browser as wide as your screen are used to seeing
 'long lines of text'.
 
 >>> You were very brave to include a table
 >>> <http://www.fingerlakesbmw.org/stuff/flmodels.php> in your
 >>> candidate site.
 >>
 >> How else would you display a table of data, other than with a table?
 >> This is what tables are for. Brave? No, I use the proper markup.
 
 No comment on this?  <g>
 
 >>> that I responded to did not qualify "any resolution" and it typifies
 >>> a number of posts in similar threads that make pious statements
 >>> about how a web page should be designed without providing any
 >>> guidance on how to achieve it.
 >>
 >> I was pious?  Ok, let's see your efforts.
 >
 > No. You were _not_ pious. Unlike the post I responded to you were
 > careful to specify "within reason" and I assumed that you do not
 > think that expecting a site to work on a mobile phone and a wide
 > screen monitor was within reason.
 
 I do expect my site to work well enough on a phone to be _useful_.
 Perhaps not "exactly correct", but still quite useful, and certainly
 lots better than the majority of sites when viewed on a small mobile
 device.
 
 --
 -bts
 -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck
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