Posted by dorayme on 04/06/07 22:37

In article <873f$461651da$40cba7b3$27922@NAXS.COM>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this Jonathan, it works in Safari, also in iCab but
> > not in FF or Opera. I have not tested in WinIE (it has no effect
> > in MacIE... <g>) I will put it up at:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/ypnfc8
> >
>
> Works in my FF, SeaMonkey & Opera! And "sorta" for WinIE, some tweaking
> maybe needed for IE "alternate" methods of calculating margins ;-) (In
> IE's defense there is probably a round-off error issue).

Works in my Mac FF and Opera now.

While I am here Jonathan, I will take a peek on my Win 2000 box...

Nah, no good I am afraid. Yes, it is trying, but the effect is so
marginal as to count for a fail on this particular size
thumbnail. (I will leave you to ponder defences for WinIE, I feel
more merciless towards it).

Anyway, pity... The point of bothering with this sort of thing is
to provide for the majority in this centering. I will try to
tweak by using sizes that I often do use, namely, 200x150 for
landscape, 150x200 for portrait... maybe IE will do better with
different figures.

Just one q, is IE 7 any better than 6 on this score? In other
words, does IE 7 center the mass of thumbnails as good as in FF
or as weakly as in IE6?

In some of the applications I have in mind for this centering, I
have landscapes and portaits, each block with their own wrapper.
I suppose I would have to sophisticate up the JS to address the
two blocks...

Perhaps the situation could be improved (at the cost of a little
screen wastage) by somehow making for the mass as a whole to use
up a much more "noticeable" amount of left and right margin.

--
dorayme

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