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Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 11/12/31 11:24
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:48:57 -0500, Spanky The Thunder Chicken
<antny@meow.org> wrote:
>In article <1f3fg19da20c7kerojh829321uq86kkpii@4ax.com>,
> Onideus Mad Hatter <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:30:49 -0500, Spanky The Thunder Chicken
>> <antny@meow.org> wrote:
>>
>> >Nope and nope for Mac OS X 10.2 with Safari 1.0.3 and IE 5.2. It's
>> >horizontally centered under Safari, but you only see the bottom half or
>> >so of it (it's positioned off the top of the screen). Under IE, it's
>> >just in the upper left corner as though it's not positioned at all.
>>
>> Can you test it again for me, I just made some alterations. The way
>> it's set up now is ~should~ work perfectly on Safari and IE on the
>> Mac...according to this site anyway:
>> http://www.quirksmode.org/viewport/compatibility.html
>>
>> I used document.documentElement.offsetWidth/Height for Opera and then
>> self.innerWidth/Height for everything else (they don't mention
>> Konqueror though, so it might not work on that).
>
>I got the same result for both browsers (half off the top of the screen
>on Safari, no positioning on IE).
>
>You can try the <table> <td valign="middle" align="center"> thing, but
>what I've discovered about that is that it won't work if you include a
><!DOCTYPE="whatever"> definition (or maybe I wasn't defining the right
>doctype).
>
>I know you sneered at using tables to format the page before, but if it
>works, it works.
Well I don't mind using tables, it's just that the peanut gallery will
start screaming about W3C compliancy. I might just have to give in
the old adage, "Can't please everyone." though.
*ponders*
....actually, now that I think about it I could use the table method
but then encapsulate it into the .js script and that way it would
still validate.
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Onideus Mad Hatter
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