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Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 01/03/06 18:07
René Kabis wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Ren� Kabis wrote:
>>>Greetings!
>>>
>>>I am testing out a new site design here:
>>>
>>>http://rene.kabis.org/temp/index.html
>>>...
>>>It looks beautiful in Firefox and Opera, but it�s crap in IE due
>>
>> Before you try to figure out IE, you need to solve the image problem. I
>> went to your link, immediately saw a blue background with white lorem
>> ipsum text. About a minute later, images started to appear, one at a
>> time for the next minute. And I'm on a fast 7Mbps cable connection.
>>
>> 796,775 bytes back-trans.png
>> 227,343 bytes title-trans.png
>> 394,189 bytes screen-trans.png
>>
>> Waaay too large for a web page.
>>
>> For some reason I don't have time to investigate, it's also not caching
>> the images, so I guess we would have to download the meg-and-a-half
>> every time we went to a different page at the site?
>>
>> Why are you using XHTML 1.1? You should use HTML 4.01 Strict. The XHTML
>> could very well be your IE problem.
>>
>
> First of all, discussion about the images are off-topic;
No, they are not; they are part of the page, and may even contribute to
the problem.
> as those images
> are hardly in a final form. I *know* I have to compress them,
You might get some people to visit the page if they didn't have to wait
~five minutes for it to load. I can't imagine how long it takes for a
dialup user.
> I was just hoping for some help with why the layout suddenly doesn’t
> work. It did before, I implemented a raft of changes, and suddenly it
> doesn’t.
Perhaps implementing changes one at a time is a better way to go?
Why do you have a #body div?
With a maximized browser on an 1152x864 display, all your nav and
content is squished to the right. I'm sure you don't want that to
happen. (Firefox)
> Even backtracking and reverse-engineering doesn’t get me back to a
> functioning layout.
>
> And I tried switching doctypes; no effect. :-(
Put up a version of the page with HTML 4.01 Strict and let us see what
happens.
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