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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 10:43:09 pm PDT #585 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Setting my monitor to 800 x 600 to test, and it looks like it would work.

Now to get rid of this ugly-ass setting. Eep.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:45:58 pm PDT #586 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I checked out that link Michele and all it's done is convince me that I should leave things alone.

I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.

Do you mean flush on the left and right sides? Is that possible?


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:47:38 pm PDT #587 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.


P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 10:49:07 pm PDT #588 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I never said 800x600 wouldn't work. We decided long ago that we should design for 640x480.

What's the percentage of people still at 640x480?


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 10:53:23 pm PDT #589 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

A Hecubus percentage.

I'm sorry, I'm really tired and should go to bed before I get even more cranky.


P.M. Marc - Oct 07, 2002 11:02:18 pm PDT #590 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Aha.

Well, that makes sense, then. I mainly asked because 2 years ago, the company I was web-deving for, which tried to keep things as backwards compatable as possible, stopped supporting anything less than 800 x 600.

I can't get my monitor to display anything less than 800 x 600. Heh. This relates to nothing, but means I can't play one of my games on it. Oh well.

Is there any reason for the bottom table to be a table? The one containing the posting form? Would it work as a centered div? Nevermind me, I'm just spewing suggestions.


§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 11:21:54 pm PDT #591 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think we (and by we, I mean mostly Jon, and for that I apologize) should be able to find a way to not have the font sizes set in stone. In IE, it's often very important for me to resize a web site's text (Opera lets you force it).


Jon B. - Oct 08, 2002 9:04:41 am PDT #592 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I think we (and by we, I mean mostly Jon, and for that I apologize) should be able to find a way to not have the font sizes set in stone.

I agree (except the apologizing part --- not necessary), but it annoys me that it's basically a bug that's preventing some folks from changing the size. Browser preferences should allow one to override a stylesheet.

I'll play with the px to pt thing some more (but maybe not until next week).

The other option is to wait for ita to program personalized stylesheets stored under a user's profile. ;^)


Michele T. - Oct 08, 2002 9:37:40 am PDT #593 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Jon, just to clarify, I meant flush left with the large column where the posts appear. If we had the home/how-to/etc links flush left with that as well, it would look OK design-wise. Or we could get a Hec a new monitor and force the solution....

Mmmm, personalized stylesheets. I want the posts to all have Dublin Core compliant metadata tags! ;-)


Jon B. - Oct 08, 2002 9:51:05 am PDT #594 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Jon, just to clarify, I meant flush left with the large column where the posts appear.

If I understand you correctly, that's already what I was looking at --- to do that would require that the posting box be about 25% narrower.

If we had the home/how-to/etc links flush left with that as well, it would look OK design-wise.

Or maybe I'm not understanding you because isn't that already the case with those links?