> On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 03:57 PM, Miles Tillinger wrote: > > > I've managed to get it basically perfect in IE6, but there is small > > 2-3 pixel discrepancy in Mozilla and Opera (haven't had a chance to > > check on Safari yet *shudder*) down the left side of the > right column. > > I'm guessing that its to do with how I've made the columns > inside a > > column layout, but I can't work out a better way to do it. > > You're worried about 2-3 pixels? I wouldn't be, unless it > looks awful, > just aim for "close and visually balanced" rather than "pixel > perfect".
I agree and I'm happy with where it's at now. It definitely doesn't look awful, in fact a few ppl that've seen the site didn't notice it, although they aren't hunting for it like we would! > > Furthermore, I'd suggest that Safari, Mozilla, Opera et al are > "correct" and IE is "2-3 pixels out", not the other way around :) Yeah it's certainly IE that is being silly as I've measured the pixels. > > FWIW, it renders the same in Safari and Opera 7.5Beta on Mac OS X. Thanks for the OSX check, that makes me feel better! > > > > Is what I am trying to do not suited to CSS positioning? > Or is there > > a better way to do it? > > Seems perfect to me -- you should be able to almost achieve > everything > (and then some) with CSS layout that you used to with tables, > with the > exception of tabular data, which should remain in tables. MT. > > --- > Justin French > http://indent.com.au > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
