Posted by jezaustin on 11/16/54 11:59

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> jezaustin@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Fairly new to web development, getting super-frustrated at
> > cross-browser issues. I hope someone can help.
>
> Super-frustration is typically caused by attempts at pixel-exact control and
> complex layout.

What's the alternative? To use percentages? They can obviously break at
extreme viewport sizes, I'd rather prompt the browser to use a
horizontal scroll bar. I suppose em's are fairly sensible, but I'm
working with the client's organisation-wide stylesheets, so I'd rather
not mess it all around.

> > I'm working with a template with a navigation column on the right and
> > a nice blank margin on the right. The content div therefore has 200px
> > margins on the left and right.
>
> I don't see anything nice with that, and 200px is surely a wrong approach.
> It is most probably coupled with setting the font size in px, which is much
> more destructive.

Just grepped through the style-sheets for fonts set in pixels, and
there are a couple of rarely used classes which are defined like that
but in general, no the font size is left free or set proportionally.

> Just redesign it. Make it simple. Very simple. Actually, users don't even
> need a navigation column; a link to the main page is enough, when the main
> page itself contains suitable navigation, and just a little else.

I'd love to but my job is to work with someone else's design...

Thanks,
Jez.

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