On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:26:34 -0700 Thierry Koblentz wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Michael > > Adams Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:28 PM > > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > > Subject: [css-d] layout robustness > > > > > > Using negative margins and fluid layout in a CMS template and just > > wondering how others handle robustness issues. If one of the authors > > places a large image in content which looks good on their browser, > > but it is to big for 800x600 how do you handle the overflow. > > You could use CSS to set a max-width on the image. > Another approach that we used for a specific app is to burn rather > large images and then set their width in percentage. That way the > width of the parent container is never an issue. >
Both are valid approaches but both risk huge image download times on dial-up unless i hack the CMS to use imageMagick or similar to resize on upload. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
