Hi, Georg, and thanks for this detailed reply! > your page is full of markup errors... Thanks for bringing these to my attention -- I'll look into all of them when some time becomes available. Related questions: why, if using an <li> without an ordered or unordered list is not allowed, does it work on my site? What are the negative consequences of using it that way?
>background is positioned 50% from the left side - regardless of window size. Yes -- I used the 'negative margins' technique to (sort of) center the whole thing ('sort of', because I didn't want it symmetrically centered). But while I understand how my background's width causes the horizontal scrollbar, how does the "left: 50%;" affect either the scrollbar or my friend's 'zooming' of all elements? >what Fx version did you test in and what settings were at play? FF 3.0.8, on a Mac OSX 10.5.6. I'm pretty sure the whole thing was 'zoomed', but my friend says that she has to negatively zoom in order to obtain my page's intended size! All I can imagine is that my friend has some kind of 'automatic zoom' set up -- either on her computer, or in FF -- but, so far, I haven't been able to discover such a feature, in any of the online literature. I'm baffled! >Individual elements hold their declared width, but the page as such needs >1650px wide windows to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar Yes, I'm assuming that's because of the wide #background div I've used. As I wrote to Phillipe, I added that div because I felt the design looked pretty weak without it, when viewed on wider screens/windows. Aside from using a fluid design, is there any way I could have it both ways? >The declared dimensions on paragraphs and parent-less list-items are creating >problems... This sounds serious, but: ><http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ml/test_09_0410.html> . . . For some reason, I keep getting a "not found" error message when trying to go to that URL. >...and extra horizontal width all browsers have to cope with. Why not let >those elements auto-adjust to their containers? Ah -- as in the following? : >FWIW: it looks like you're attempting to recreate print design on the web, and >that rarely ever works well. I know. The problem, though, was that I needed to get the site up immediately -- it's the second site I've ever done, and I'm very slow at this kind of thing. With all its flaws, my only previous experience was with a print-style design. I keep telling myself that I'll try to learn these things for my next site, but, given that I'm still in the dark with a lot of what I've already learned, even that may turn out to be too ambitious. Thanks for your help, Georg! All the best, Michael ________________________________ From: Gunlaug Sørtun <gunla...@c2i.net> To: Michael Leibson <michael_mabe...@yahoo.ca> Cc: Eric Meyer's CSS List <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 9:01:10 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs? Michael Leibson wrote: > I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac, > yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on > all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design was > effectively spread, horizontally, to fit the (maximized) window. Don't know how wide the screen on a zillion-pixel-wide new Mac is, but my trusty old win machine provides me with a 3800 px wide screen for browsers if/when I need it. I need nearly half of that screen-area for your page, in any browser, just to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar. That's before adding page-zoom to the equation. > This would have pleased me, were my design fluid -- but it isn't: it's fixed! 1: your page is full of markup errors... <http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/> ...and some of those are serious. 2: background is positioned 50% from the left side - regardless of window size. 3: what Fx version did you test in and what settings were at play? > www.thinkingmusic.ca . Individual elements hold their declared width, but the page as such needs 1650px wide windows to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar. The declared dimensions on paragraphs and parent-less list-items are creating problems... <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ml/test_09_0410.html> ...and extra horizontal width all browsers have to cope with. Why not let those elements auto-adjust to their containers? FWIW: it looks like you're attempting to recreate print design on the web, and that rarely ever works well. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/