Posted by windandwaves on 09/21/07 03:42

On Sep 21, 3:31 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> In article
> <1190342919.702098.137...@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
>
>
>
> windandwaves <nfranc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > What is your
>
> > > html {
> > > overflow-y: scroll;
>
> > > }
>
> > > about?
>
> > > --
> > > dorayme
>
> > The designer liked to have an ie feel to the scrollbar in FF, go to
> >http://www.winsborough.co.nz/contact/using FF and you may see a
> > scroll bar appear even if there is no scrolling.
>
> Nope. Just comes on when it needs to in FF.

It works for me in FF latest on windows XP. It is not a biggy - is
it?

> Be interesting to see
> if you could make this page (as an example) fit into 800 wide.
> There is little enough (I do not mean unimportant) material here
> and if it was not for the graphic constraints of the decorative
> images, would easily do so.
>
> I think it is true that while many will use this site fine, it
> would be clever if you could work it so that it was a bit more
> fluid. There are people who would click the text up a few notches
> (I do as the day wears on) and there are people who find it
> convenient and/or appreciate it when they can to have the browser
> on 800px wide max. Clicking text up gets to too quickly break
> this design. Lets give this test a name: How about
> "text-click-index", the shorter the range before the design
> breaks its graphic design looks, the less good it is qua web
> design in the ideal? Yours is not totally bad and not totally
> good. But it is something to keep in mind.

Yes, I am working on a smaller window size, however, from our stats
info, we found that there are no people who view on smaller
screensizes. I have to respect the designer as well...

> What Jonathan said to you about em dimensioning is really quite
> important, not just for fonts themselves, but for all spaces
> where fonts are related. Please consider those remarks carefully.

Yep, I totally agree with this approach. It mainly applies to height,
line-height and that sort of thing. Of course you can do width:
200px.

I still have the question above about li within li. That does not
make much sense to me.... nesting screws up font-sizes in em. right?

>
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> dorayme

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