Hi Felix
Thanks for your comments.
The site is a design site, and as such the text size is a deliberate
choice - its intrinsic to the design. I deliberately built a fixed
width design so I could get everything nicely balanced - the
paragraph widths in proportion to the crab, and the gutter widths -
all important in this design.
I am aware of the ability to built flexible sites, but I believe it
is a design choice, and as such depends on the requirements of the
site. In this case, as I will be controlling the content, i know that
the fixed size will be ok, and this allows me to control the design
and paragraph widths to create the image I wanted for this site. If I
bump up the text size a few clicks it still stays readable here.
So this isnt really relevant to the problem - the problem is IE
making the floated footer disappear. Im hoping someone can take a
glance at the code and see if theres anything obvious.
thanks
J
On 1 Jun 2006, at 17:15, Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/06/01 09:21 (GMT-0400) James Cutts apparently typed:
Hi, I'm new to the list although I used to lurk on here a few
years ago
I've got a problem with a CSS layout.
It works fine in Safari and Firefox, but in IE the footer (#footer)
completely disappears.
Im also having problems lining up the menu and content on different
browsers - does anyone have a solution?
You can view the page here:
http://www.deepdesign.biz/deepdesign2/index2.html
James, I see other problems. #1 is your page title makes a poor
bookmark: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/tabstitlesbookmarks.html
#2-IE users' text resizer widget won't work on px sized text.
Accessibility depends on legible text, but your page discriminates
against all IE users who need to use the resizer to make your tiny
text
big enough to read, which creates web users' biggest complaint:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html.
The same goes for high resolution users, to whom 12px is commonly
referred to as mousetype. Here's a look at what I mean (please note
the
disclaimer at the bottom of the setup page):
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-jamecu.html SS setup page
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/jamecu1.jpg hires Linux screenshot
#3 problem is the fixed width. By the time I zoom your mousetype up
to a
size I can read, the line lengths are limited to 3-4 words, much too
short. Fixed width is for print, not the web. Just because you see so
many of these print pages hosted on the web doesn't mean they were
designed for the web. The web is a naturally flexible medium, and
works
best without artificially imposed size contraints. Here are several
good
reads on how it should work if you're interested in the flexibility
that
results in maximum accessibility:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/staffpubs/od/ocpl/agingchecklist.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/accessibility.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/bigdefaults.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/bbcSS.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/pxmonkeys.html
Links to more:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/wauth2.html
HTH
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