Peach Lynda L CTR USAF 96 CG/SCWOE wrote: > I'm gathering the problem is this: <meta http-equiv="content-type" > content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> > > What should it be?
Never mind the meta-element. It doesn't matter out on the web. This is what W3C states: - The doctype you've used: XHTML 1.1, *should not* be used for a document served as 'text/html'. - You're left with (HTML compatible) XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01 when using that MIME-type. No validator of any flavor or origin will help you here, so you just have to take W3C's own words (articles) for it... <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary> <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#mime11> > ------------- > >> That layout-solution clearly hasn't been tested with user-options >> such as 'font resizing', 'ignore font size' and 'minimum font >> size'. > > > Hmmm -- I did do testing for resizing larger - smaller is rarely an > issue. Admittedly didn't test for the other two specifically. > Appreciate being reminded about this. FYI: I hardly ever resize fonts. Instead I have set a 'minimum font size' value so my browsers do it "automatically" for me on every site. Few sites seems to be well prepared for that option, and you can find quite a few complaints about that on various forums. >> Is it 'jello' or 'elastic' you want? :-) Number of columns doesn't >> really matter, but the way you approach it does. An example... >> <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_12a.html> > > > I can do a 3 column with the big one in the center -- have them on > the site. But couldn't find anything with 4 columns that met what I > had to do on that site as far as links and content. > > I can "live" with the iced-4-column but future work needs 4 columns > where at least ONE of the middle or inner columns can be elastic. 1: your 4-column isn't "iced" or "fixed" - it is "em-based": locked to font-size. 2: my example is "elastic": it is guided by (will expand with) the font-size, but will stay within the width of the browser-window - as long as the window is wider than a "fixed" min-width. I haven't bothered to give my particular solution a "name", since it is only the method for solving problems with IE/win (pre IE7) that is somewhat new. I have not written an in-depth article about possible line-ups and numbers of columns for my elastic solution, but any number of side-by-side columns will work with the method I've used in my example. The variable - em-based max-width - is only on the outer container, while all columns use a percentage-width. Min-width takes care of the problems with overlapping and/or dropped columns, as long as the author takes care of image-dimensions and alike. You'll have to "relearn" how to apply font-size base if you want IE6 (and older versions) to play along though, as all the "common practice" methods with font-size on body will override IE's own internal values. I have simply moved the font-size base further in, thus avoided the "collision". regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
