Hi all, I was looking through the templates folder in look/www/overrides/templates and found the skeleton code for the OOo website These files contain the table code for OOo, and it is possible to get rid of it and finally make our website layout tableless. I was very careful not to 'break' anything, and made backups of all the files in case anything went wrong.
This made me think, why has no one done this yet? There might be a very good reason for this, so I have isolated all the changes I have made to test.openoffice.org. You can see the tableless design in action at test.openoffice.org (I added an exception to all table code to exclude the test subdomain. We can phase this in gradually or in one sweep), as well as our new header (minitab replacement) in progress. The separation of the navigation bar (#navcolumn) and the content (#bodycol) is achieved with the same CSS technique as our wiki, so it should be fine in IE6 (for an example, see http://test.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList). Speaking of which, if we add an exception for the why subdomain so that CollabNet does not automatically add unnecessary code, we can finally launch the new why.OOo design because it will be compatible with IE6! Please let me know what you think about all this - i.e., are there any problems you envision if we go tableless? Regards, Ivan. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
