Posted by geniolatenio on 03/08/06 18:42

>> http://incarta.altervista.org/indexok.html
>
>This link looks the same to me, in Firefox and IE6.

did you resize the page in IE? like making it pretty small.. as soon
as you hit the rightmost part of the menu with the right border of the
browser, the menu comes down a bit..

>IE users with vision problems will not be able to resize it, so they can
>read it, when px (or pt) is used. If you use percentages (or em), they
>will be able to resize ... (and even with px, users of all modern
>browsers can resize - Firefox: press Control-Plus a few times)

Yes, I understand the point and I could even agree to it, but this is
the age-old problem of either having a website accessible to everyone,
modifying the layout in order to accomodate that, or trying to have it
accessible at the most with some design exceptions.. unfortunately I
want to have that background image going from the top of the page to
the bottom.. I tried to make it by using a div, absolute position and
z-index:1 (it has to stay behind everything else) stretching from top
to bottom, but it just doesn't stretches.. any ideas?
Anyway, back to the design issue: by letting the user change the pixel
size, the menu text becomes bigger and the "on" stage of each item
becomes larger, making it larger than the background image.. and this
looks like a mistake..

Means that if I could have this DIV go from top to bottom, resizing
itself so that it changes depending on the content of the page, I
could remove the px (I just noticed that firefox lets me change the
font size anyway)..

Or do you know of any solution to this? I'm one of those who thinks
that a website should be visible almost the same way on all different
browser, accessible to most, but at the same time I shouldn't forget
what I like and how I'd like a website to be.. the example you gave
me, the http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/flexdesign.html, is a
good example of flexibility, but the design really sucks.

I agree that functionality is important, but the eye needs to be
satisfied as well.

Bye

geniolatenio

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