David, I looked at the example you sent, and I see where you are going with it. The problem in this case is that a height, or at least min-height, *has* to be specified on #container for the CurvyCorners script to work properly. As well, CurvyCorners does not respond nicely to relative dimensions, an approach that I tried in my first iteration. (This isn't a JS-list, but for the record I'm using CC for the corners because my usual stand-bys apparently conflict with the mootools library + lightbox script I'm using on a handful of pages, and CC doesn't.)
I started out with only the one wrapper (effort to reduce "unnecessary" markup), attempting to position almost everything inside it relatively. However, I found this produced some pretty foul problems, especially on the pages with the third-tier navigation (if things were set to display correctly for the other pages, they were inevitably wonked for these pages unless I set the third-tier navigation with positioning that interfered with any sort of text scaling). The other problem was that in using only one wrapper in conjunction with the CurvyCorners script, it produced an offset that screwed everything up - if it looked correct with JS, it was wrong without, and vice versa. So I tinkered about, and found that by adding a second wrapper and positioning it relatively inside the first wrapper, that offset was eliminated both with and without javascript, it eliminated any need for a "noscript" (which wasn't going to work and be even remotely valid), allowed me to remove the problems with the relationship between the third-tier navigation and the main navigation, and actually reduced the number of hacks that I was looking at using (primarily for IE). (I also did some re-ordering as well, although I'm still not quite satisfied with it.) As for the Opera hacks, there's something odd with that... I'm finding that Opera 9.2 renders everything almost identical to Firefox and Netscape, but there are one or two things that it seems to render more in the manner of IE7. Safari for PC seems to mimic this as well. Annoyance. I'm going to tinker about with the example you sent and see if I can get it to play nicely with all the factors involved in this. Thank you for taking the time to put it together. If anyone else has ideas as well on how to make this layout work better with text scaling, please let me know. I'm not crazy about the overflow: auto applied to the primary areas once the text reaches a certain size... http://www.lostinxlation.net/sandbox3/portfolio/cybernomics2.html http://www.lostinxlation.net/sandbox3/css/primary.css ~~J. Hodge (treswife at gmail dot com) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
