About two weeks ago I presented a page design to this list under the
subject "reassurance sought" and I received excellent advice from Georg
that led to me rethinking the "proportional" (em-based) layout approach.
I redirected my efforts toward the redesign of the larger of the two
sites I maintain, this time using a liquid design approach. I've tested
using PC browsers IE5, 5.5, 6, FF 1.0.4, Opera 8, and even NN 4.7.
Appears to hold together at all resolutions from 800 by 600 through 2048
by 1536, even at 200% zoom (Opera). The sample page is:
http://xps.org/test08jun.html with css at http://xps.org/styles/fluid.css
XHTML and CSS validate with exception of one CSS rule (an IE expression).
I designed for minimum width of 770px, but do want the page to be usable
in 600px (VGA display) window. Modern browsers show scroll bar and allow
horizontal scrolling. IE, however, pushes the rightmost columns down as
the viewport is narrowed. This isn't all that bad, vertical scrolling is
usually less irritating than horizontal. So, I'm not sure; should I fix
IE to behave like other browsers? If so, how?
I would appreciate a site check using Mac browsers. In fact, on any
platform. I want to get this right before starting conversion of the
xps.org site. Thanks. This list has been an extremely valuable resource.
Patrick Mannix
<http://xps.org/>
<http://mhcug.org/>
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