Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Irina Ahrens]

Tatham,

When browser window is resized vertically, clouds in the glass.jpg are
not aligned with clouds in the background.jpg. Maybe, don't use clouds
in glass.jpg. Instead use as a background checkboard pattern 1px
colored (white or blue) x 1px transparent. Then, when this image is on
top of background.jpg, you would see throught the clouds. I haven't
tried it, but have a feeling it may do the trick.

Cheers, Irina.
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Irina Ahrens]

Tatham,

Interesting solution. Have a look at this article and discussion:

http://evolt.org/article/Super_Ragged_Floats/22/50410/index.html


Cheers, Irina.
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RE: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Tatham Oddie]

Paul,

Thanks for the browser help...

In some ways I am also objecting to the way I used the spacers, but think it
was the most elegant solution that I could find. I checked it using Fangs,
and the screen reader output seems perfect. The only other option I could
think of was to use divs or something instead - avoiding the 'paragraph'
information I am currently attaching to them.


Tat


-Original Message-
From: Paul Novitski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 18 February 2005 12:23 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

At 03:40 PM 2/17/2005, Tatham Oddie wrote:
>It'd be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of 
><http://www.whatcanido.com.au/>www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is 
>only a holding page - but I'm interested in what people would have to say 
>about the way I've achieved the text wrapping.
>
>The screen reader output in Fangs seems perfect so I'm happy from the 
>accessibility angle.
>
>I've tested in IE6.0PC and FF1.0PC. Any other browser tests would be 
>appreciated as well.


Tatham,

I think that's a clever way to wrap text around a graphic.  It seems to 
work fine (with text-resizing) in WinXP in Mozilla 1.7.2, Netscape 7.1, and 
Opera 7.23.

I know some folks (including perhaps myself) will object to your use of the 
CSS equivalent of spacer gifs, since they have no semantic content at all, 
but it does work.  I wonder if such objections would fall silent if you'd 
used a column of foreground image slices in staggered widths instead of  
tags?

Paul
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RE: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Tatham Oddie]

Great…. Yet not so great…

 

Thanks a lot for your assistance
Carmelyne.

 

 

Tat

 









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On Behalf Of Carmelyne Thompson
Sent: Friday, 18 February 2005
11:33 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
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whatcanido.com.au



 

Looks fine on netscape 7

but this is how it looks like on Opera7.52 
http://wapcss.com/whatcan.gif

- Carmelyne Thompson






 

It’d
be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there
is only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people would
have to say about the way I’ve achieved the text wrapping.



 

RE: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Tatham Oddie]

Levi,

You read my mind! Yeah - that was the basic reason.

Thanks a lot for the assistance.


Tat


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Sent: Friday, 18 February 2005 10:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Checked in IE 6.x SP2 and FF1.x (pc), loooks good in both. I like the
way you did the text wrapping. Why did you use 9 divs instead of 5
though? you only have 4 lines of text and that empty line. Was it just
so that if the text size was made much smaller it'll still wrap
nicely?



On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:40:23 +1100, Tatham Oddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>  
> 
> Guys n' Gals, 
> 
>   
> 
> It'd be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of
> www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is only a holding page - but I'm
> interested in what people would have to say about the way I've achieved
the
> text wrapping. 
> 
>   
> 
> The screen reader output in Fangs seems perfect so I'm happy from the
> accessibility angle. 
> 
>   
> 
> I've tested in IE6.0PC and FF1.0PC. Any other browser tests would be
> appreciated as well. 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> Tatham Oddie 
> 
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Paul Novitski]

At 03:40 PM 2/17/2005, Tatham Oddie wrote:
It’d be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of 
www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is 
only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people would have to say 
about the way I’ve achieved the text wrapping.

The screen reader output in Fangs seems perfect so I’m happy from the 
accessibility angle.

I’ve tested in IE6.0PC and FF1.0PC. Any other browser tests would be 
appreciated as well.

Tatham,
I think that's a clever way to wrap text around a graphic.  It seems to 
work fine (with text-resizing) in WinXP in Mozilla 1.7.2, Netscape 7.1, and 
Opera 7.23.

I know some folks (including perhaps myself) will object to your use of the 
CSS equivalent of spacer gifs, since they have no semantic content at all, 
but it does work.  I wonder if such objections would fall silent if you'd 
used a column of foreground image slices in staggered widths instead of  
tags?

Paul 

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Carmelyne Thompson]

Looks
fine on netscape 7

but this is how it looks like on Opera7.52 
http://wapcss.com/whatcan.gif

- Carmelyne Thompson


  
   
  It’d be greatly
appreciated if you could do a site
review of www.whatcanido.com.au.
Currently
there is only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people
would have to say about the way I’ve achieved the text wrapping.
  

Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Jan Brasna]

Hi Tatham,
the layout breaks in Opera 7.54u2/Win (the background is weirdly 
positioned). Safari 1.1 and FF 1.0/Mac looks OK. IE 5.23/Mac badly 
positions the main content area (some negative margins/positions?).

--
Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: alphanumeric.cz | janbrasna.com
Stop IE! -  | 
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Levi]

Checked in IE 6.x SP2 and FF1.x (pc), loooks good in both. I like the
way you did the text wrapping. Why did you use 9 divs instead of 5
though? you only have 4 lines of text and that empty line. Was it just
so that if the text size was made much smaller it'll still wrap
nicely?



On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:40:23 +1100, Tatham Oddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  
>  
> 
> Guys n' Gals, 
> 
>   
> 
> It'd be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of
> www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is only a holding page â but I'm
> interested in what people would have to say about the way I've achieved the
> text wrapping. 
> 
>   
> 
> The screen reader output in Fangs seems perfect so I'm happy from the
> accessibility angle. 
> 
>   
> 
> I've tested in IE6.0PC and FF1.0PC. Any other browser tests would be
> appreciated as well. 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> Thanks! 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> Tatham Oddie 
> 
> Fuel Advance 
> 
>   
> 
> +61 414 275 989 
> 
> callto://tathamoddie
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[WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

[Tatham Oddie]

Guys n’ Gals,

 

It’d be greatly appreciated if you could do a site
review of www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently
there is only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people
would have to say about the way I’ve achieved the text wrapping.

 

The screen reader output in Fangs seems perfect so I’m
happy from the accessibility angle.

 

I’ve tested in IE6.0PC and FF1.0PC. Any other browser
tests would be appreciated as well.

 

 

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

Tatham Oddie

Fuel Advance

 

+61 414 275 989

callto://tathamoddie