17th Apr 2003
CSS revisited
So I have changed the look of JavaJoint a bit. I feel like CSS is something that you wrestle with. For any one browser, you can get things to look perfect. But, oh! We’ve got trouble right here in (Petaluma) River City! With a Capital C, that rhymes with P that stands for Positioning.
I am consciously avoiding things like the voice-family hack. That probably makes my attempts at layout consistency that much tougher. The chief problem I am having is with narrow windows. I really don’t want the right side (links, categories, and all the rest) dropping below the blog content. I think I have things to the point where they look ok in MSIE/Netscape on my 800×600 laptop (which was a test case where I wanted to be sure the site was useable), as long as the user opens up a wide window.
Being a former QA person, I had to go and check things on Mac Safari, MSIE, and Camino. I also checked it out on Linux with Phoenix and Konquerer. Whew, it’s useable. I can stop fretting for now :-)
Yes, I did rip out the calendar - for now. I didn’t like its “I’m so wide, I’m going to mess up this div!”
behavior. Hey, I think that makes the main page table-free … We’ll see how long that lasts.
Of course, as I said back in my first post, “Start Simply”, I believe in iteration, which means the site will keep changing.
