Posted by Chaddy2222 on 01/01/06 10:57

René Kabis wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I am testing out a new site design here:
>
> http://rene.kabis.org/temp/index.html
>
> Please forgive the strange characters that might pop up, I haven't
> converted the file to UTF-8 yet, but I'm using UTF-8 characters...
>
> Anyhow, I am using the IE7 Standards Compliance patch to force IE to
> conform to web standards. Early in the design, things were going nearly
> perfect, with the background attaching nicely to the screen and not
> scrolling.
>
> However, something changed recently, and I haven't been able to track it
> down. I was hoping that someone could take a look at my source and
> figure out why the background(s) aren't attaching to the screen anymore.
> That is, they used to be locked in position, not moving when I scrolled,
> but this isn't happening anymore. In fact, I can't lock them into the
> correct places anymore (bottom left, fixed) at all.
>
> It looks beautiful in Firefox and Opera, but it's crap in IE due to IE's
> appalling lack of standards support. Even IE7 isn't helping anymore,
> probably due to something I did.
>
> Suggestions?
Make your PNG images smaller. I am on a 31K dial-up conection and have
no access to a faster conection.
Also, You should not really use fixed persitioning for anything on the
web. It will cause your page too break under various browser settings.
My copy of IE 6 craped it self when I visited your page and it looks
the same in both IE and FireFox.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

>
> Thanks.
> René Kabis

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