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Invitation to take a swing at me

September 30, 2004 Stephanie Leary

… or rather, at these two layouts I’m working on for the day job. If you see anything really funky, leave me a comment with your browser and OS, please?

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  1. mothoc says

    September 30, 2004 at 3:14 pm

    What is the alignment supposed to be between the search box and the black arrow next to it? On OSX 10.3.5 and Safari 1.2.3, its coming up top-aligned, so the arrow looks a little high. Don’t know if that’s intentional or not. If it is, cool, if not, well, now ya know. ! :)

  2. Stephanie says

    September 30, 2004 at 3:55 pm

    That arrow drives me nuts. It’s centered in Gecko, high in Safari, and low in IE. BAH.

  3. Stephanie says

    September 30, 2004 at 3:59 pm

    It’s looking good here – Win2K Pro and Firefox 1.0 and IE 6.0 (with whatever the latest service pack is). I’m not getting the same alignment issue that Mike is -if anything, that arrow’s looking a couple of pixels too low on both browsers, but it’s so slight I wouldn’t have noticed it if I hadn’t read Mike’s comment. I’m going to have to figure out how to construct all my divs so as to minimize their impact on each other – that’s the primary problem with the CoNDFW page right now, in that the divs are interacting with each other in unexpected (and at times inexplicable) ways. I r not a CSS powah-usa yet, obviously.

  4. robin says

    September 30, 2004 at 4:18 pm

    On Win NT—arrow is fine in Firefox 0.92; looks a tiny bit low in IE. Silly question: I don’t suppose you could change the arrow gif’s transparent background height to exactly match the height of the search box?

    Also got that pre-css unformatted splash w/ IE before the page loaded, but I’m assuming you just haven’t yet plunked in a blank javascript cheat in the headers to kill that. :-)

    Other stuff looks fine. Column edging is very nice.

  5. Stephanie says

    September 30, 2004 at 6:01 pm

    Thanks, Robin. If you have a cheap Javascript solution for that handy, I’ll give it a shot. :) On the arrow—yeah, I could fix the height of the image if the height of the box were consistent across browsers. Alas, not.

    Stephanie—try the CSS-Discuss wiki for lots o’ ready-made CSS layouts. I lurve the wiki. I tried a dozen or so layouts from it for this project, but couldn’t find one with 3 equal-height columns (from this morning’s list discussion I gather one hasn’t been developed yet) so I ended up cheating.

  6. Yoon Ha Lee says

    October 1, 2004 at 12:48 am

    The search-box arrow is, alas, high in OmniWeb 5.0 on Mac OS 10.2.8.

    Otherwise, I don’t see anything troublesome. And I’m not a designer, but it’s pretty and I can actually read it. (I’m so tired of pale blue text on aqua backgrounds, red text on black backgrounds, and other atrocities.)

  7. Steph says

    October 1, 2004 at 1:48 am

    Hey, thanks, Yoon! I hadn’t thought to check OmniWeb.

  8. robin says

    October 1, 2004 at 5:02 pm

    If you just drop an empty start/end javascript code into your header—(script type=”text/javascript”)(/script)—that it’ll kill the pre-css flash you sometimes get when the page loads.

    Kind of a silly cheat, but it seems to work.

    (Note: one of these days I’ll remember how to do angle brackets in posts without having them disappear on me. :-) )

  9. brian w says

    October 1, 2004 at 5:56 pm

    This comment is actually directed towards the design at sillybean.net and not what you’ve actually asked for in your post… But I can’t find a link on your site to email you (am I crazy?) and since this is kind of a tech-y thread I figured it would be OK. Sorry!

    I subscribe to http://www.sillybean.net/?rss=1 but for the last few days the entries have been reloading every time someone adds a comment to an entry, because the comment count has been grafted onto the headline. Any chance we can get a feed without the comment count? Thanks. And sorry for kind of derailing the discussion.

  10. Stephanie says

    October 1, 2004 at 6:53 pm

    Thanks, Robin!

    Brian—I hate that it refreshes with every comment, and I’m sorry. It’s a Textpattern bug that’s hard-coded. Last time I checked it couldn’t be changed, but I haven’t done the latest upgrade, so I will check again.

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