On 8/25/2009 9:20 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Generally you're doing alright. She's relatively consistent > cross-browser. IE 6/7 on a cursory glance go along with your program. > Same for IE/8. Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, and FF. > > On a more specific level, just some random thoughts that you may, /or > may not/, wish to consider... > > 1/ I think you'll want to use an xhtml 1.0 strict, or an html 4.01 > strict doctype. Someone else can tell why xhtml 1.1 is not such a good > idea. If it has to do with the issue of serving the correct MIME type (i.e. "application/xhtml+xml" vs. "text/html"), I think I've got that covered. There's a bit about it on my colophon page:
http://ronin-group.org/TRG_colophon#mime And if that's NOT it, or I've missed something, I'd love to be better informed. > 2/ Check your site in a 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 window. Note > the clipping of the stuff at the bottom of the left column in a "short > window." This is one of those things that I wonder about every so often. I don't really track my visitor metrics, but my conclusion wound up being that I haven't seen anyone run something as small as 800 x 600 in so long that it's just not an issue. On the other hand, if you're seeing clipping at 1024 x 768, that worries me. Was there a particular page giving you problems, or was that a general resolution comment? > 3/ Should the navigation links in the left column be larger, the same > size, or smaller than the primary content in the right column? Obviously, I thought they should be larger. =] This was done for a couple of reasons: 1) to increase visibility, 2) to give them a certain scale in the sidebar and not have them surrounded by white space. I don't know if these are *good* reasons, but they were the ones that drove my decision. What are the operational or aesthetic theories behind the other schools of thought? > 4/ If, for whatever reason, a user might scale the fonts, do you want > the navigation links to horizontally cross-over and overlap the > primary content? That doesn't happen on any browser I've tested. IE6 -- though essentially irrelevant -- wraps the text as it grows bigger. IE7 and Firefox 3 both scale the width of the sidebar along with the fonts. (I tried to make sure that widths are specified in ems so that this contingency is covered.) > 5/ Is it possible to code the site with fewer ids, classes, and span > thingies? I'm sure it probably is. =] > 6/ Gray on gray is sometimes difficult for some users to read. Have > you checked your site with a color contrast analyzer? No, I haven't. This is the first I've heard of such a creature. I'll look into them. Thanks for all your suggestions and comments. I really appreciate you taking the time. michael ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
