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Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / August 2004CSS-authored page shows up differently in Mozilla
Hi there, I made the following page using CSS (a lot of new CSS that I'd never used before): http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mfarrell/ It shows up fine in IE, but in Mozilla the height of the "main" div doesn't stretch to fit the content. So my CSS must be wrong somehow, as I suspect Mozilla respects CSS standards more. The style sheet is here: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mfarrell/kotd-style.css If anyone knows what I messed up, please let me know. Thanks! > I made the following page using CSS (a lot of new CSS that I'd never > used before): > http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mfarrell/ http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www-rcf.usc.edu/%7Emfarrell/ http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A/ /www-rcf.usc.edu/%7Emfarrell/ http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints  SignatureDavid Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints font-size: small; Why? What's wrong with my preferred size? Why do they see a need to shrink the text so small I have to resize?? Sorry, but a site which purports to advocate good practice which then breaks good practice is a less than optimal resource. >> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints > font-size: small; That page does not suggest using that code. If you provide a URL to a page that does, I might be able to come up with a reasonable response. SignatureDavid Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is >> font-size: small; > > That page does not suggest using that code. The page goes into a discussion of why point sizing is inappropriate. Yet it serves an inappropriate font-size. On http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingKeywords they state: "In modern browsers rendering in Standards Mode, body {font-size: medium;} produces text equal in size to the browser default, whatever size that may be, and equal in size to that from body {font-size: 100%;} and body {font-size: 1em;}." So why serve general text at smaller than the default, which for some users is smaller than they want to read, and for others is not a usability issue anyhow? If the local law enforcement is commiting crime, it certainly undermines their right to arrest me for mine. Similarly, a page claiming to advocate good practice should not be employing techniques which clearly are not. > The page goes into a discussion of why point sizing is inappropriate. Yet > it serves an inappropriate font-size. Oooooh, the style sheet for that site. Well, the site is a wiki, so the author(s) of the content and the author(s) of the stylesheet are very probably not the same people. SignatureDavid Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is > The page goes into a discussion of why point sizing is inappropriate. Yet > it serves an inappropriate font-size. Oooooh, the style sheet for that site. Well, the site is a wiki, so the author(s) of the content and the author(s) of the stylesheet are very probably not the same people. Also, while I agree that the body text should not be set to anything other then the user's preference, this is a matter of some debate with a great many people falling on the side of the fence marked "Users are idiots and expect us to set font sizes smaller then Microsoft pick for them". SignatureDavid Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is > Hi there, > I made the following page using CSS (a lot of new CSS that I'd never used [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > The style sheet is here: > http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~mfarrell/kotd-style.css Lots of issues here . . . . 1. Font size is too small for me to comfortably read it, and the page doesn't respond to font size changes in the browser. 2. Your navigation styling makes it very difficult to tell what's a link and what's not a link. 3. You've embedded styles in the actual page. I was under the (probably mistaken) impression that XHTML strict would be devoid of styling. All styling should go in style sheets. 4. Finally, to address your original question, please see the following link: http://www.alistapart.com/ Search on columns and faux columns to get an idea about designing multi-column layouts with CSS that degrade gracefully using different browsers and resolutions. HTH /mde/ just my two cents . . . . hi, this is "irte" thanks for the responses! i'll read up on alistpart. -pamela > > Hi there, > > I made the following page using CSS (a lot of new CSS that I'd never used [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > /mde/ > just my two cents . . . . |
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