Posted by John Hosking on 04/05/07 07:46

jason.gladstone@gmail.com wrote:
> There
> is a border that wraps around the context on each page. These are
> little images that are resized (either using img width or img height)
> to display the correct image size.

....or the not-quite-correct size.

> I have the border running under two grayed out tabs which are each
> 90px (table cellpadding, cellspacing, and border are all 0) and the
> border is 180 pixels. This works fine on other resolutions but I when
> i view it through a computer that has a resolution of 1680 x 1050, it
> appears that the 180px border will only render to 179px leaving a gap
> in the border. I don't understand why it is doing this.

Different browser? I don't expect any one browser to always be within .5
pixels of perfect, much less do I expect different browsers to be within
one pixel of each other in all things. Maybe the browser and OS are
combining to round your display calculations slightly differently.

> The web page is http://www.fratalog.com/index.aspx

I see lines where the default background color (mine, not yours) peeks
through the border on my FF at my default font-size (16px) and larger.
Reducing the text-size even one notch eradicates the break lines. My
display is 1280x1024. In IE6 on the same display, I don't get the breaks
until I resize the text; the two largest sizes provoke the breaking.

You have used a table for your layout, and specified height="664" for
the border images, even though the table _cells_ will naturally grow to
accomodate larger text sizes. If you redesign taking these circumstances
into consideration, does your problem go away?

Also wondering about the product blurbs and why they trail off into
ellipses, as e.g. in "If I had parrot I can think of about 41,943 things
I’d rather have it say but accordi..." Where is the rest of the text?

The "[I'm awesome]" part of your Contact Me tab partially protrudes
above the border in both FF and IE.

YPKT: Pages 2 and 3 are both identical in appearance to page 1.

HTH
--
John

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