Felix, I think you need to be a little less aggressive and judgemental in
your opinions. You seem to be trying to make me out as an idiot and
incompetent at setting up my system. In fact it's deliberately a default
installation. I don't change my browser's defaults for fear of getting into
the very situation you're trying to make out.
Apparently you think I've tinkered around with my system to the extent that
I don't know what the defaults are any more. Well the machine I develop my
sites on is kept at a default installation for just this reason.
You posted a picture of how it looks on your browser, but I've never seen it
look like that on a mac, or on IE7, opera, Firefox (two versions) or
Netscape.
Here's what you posted:
Median windoze settings:
96 DPI ("small fonts")
IE6 set to "medium"
1024x768
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/tmp/hawkradioW98-IE1.png
Ok well compare that with this one:
Median Windows Settings
96DPI ("normal fonts")
IE7.1 set to "Medium"
1024x768
http://hawkradio.org.au/images/hawkradio1024x768.png
You'll see that the text in the "what's on today" table on the right is
smaller than body text, which is intended. (On yours the table text is much
larger than body text) Body text is readable. The H2 headings on the home
page are aligned as they ought to be, just to the right of the chevron
graphic.
I contend that since my IE7 looks the same as all the other browsers (with
the exception of the opera menu issue described by someone else earlier)
that it's in fact your ancient Win98/IE6 that's the problem I need to find a
hack for, not my competence in setting up my machine. ( yes, I DO need to
find a solution because there will be site users with that configuration)
I said I needed to put the help page there because the deputy chairman of
the station was having problems reading the site and you made a stupid
comment that maybe his eyes were much older than mine. You don't know
anything about the situation here so don't make idiotic assumptions. It
doesn't matter if he is older than me or not (actually he's 15 years
younger) and it makes no difference anyway. And I find your assertion that
"You, as countless others, create problems because you DON'T configure your
own to suit your own taste BEFORE beginning design work, instead assuming as
do too many others, that most do nothing as do you yourself, and that those
who do simply don't matter to you.." to be quite offensive. I do care
about the site's users. The site is there for them and for the radio
station not for me.
Felix I'm perfectly ready to acknowledge I'm a learner. I've been a learner
for 54 years. I've only built 10 CSS sites, so I have a lot to learn. But
if you want anyone to pay attention to your opinions you need to learn to
show a bit of respect and use less intemperate language.
Back off buster. If you have some thing to say I'm interested to know what
it is but if you are just going to be offensive you don't count in my view.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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