Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 05/30/06 18:38

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Stephen Poley wrote:

> Well, in for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5022524.stm and
> all the other similar article pages I've checked, the main article text
> resizes, but the sidebars do not.

Thanks. Yes, I'm using the Pederick toolbar, "CSS> View style
information" - it seems to be saying that the sidebars and other
furniture is sized in px units, whereas the main article text isn't
sized at all.

Oh, boggle, I've just noticed that they've got a meta http-equiv
stating that the page's charset=iso-8859-1, but it includes a form (in
a place where a form element isn't allowed, ho hum), with an
Accept-charset of utf-8...

I don't know how much better browsers have become since I last studied
support for forms input, but this seems to be setting browsers a
significant test quite unnecessarily!

> The column width is fixed even where the text resizes.

So it seems. Gosh, there's *sheaves* of detailed CSS, with
pixel-sized this, that and the other. No wonder they needed
workarounds for so many different browser bugs. Guess I had been
looking too superficially before. thanks.

> Altogether it looks like a muddle, not a design.

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best regards

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