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).
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§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 11:21:54 pm PDT #591 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Michele T. - Oct 08, 2002 10:43:45 am PDT #595 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
They're flush with the headline of the page, but not the posts themselves (I have no recollection of why that indentation happened, by the way: age has its benefits). So on a long page, they look (currently on a Mac, on IE5) like they're centered on the page. My bad.
Jon B. - Oct 08, 2002 11:17:52 am PDT #596 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
They're flush with the headline of the page, but not the posts themselves
OK, we're both wrong. They're centered. Try changing the width of your page and check it out.
Michele T. - Oct 08, 2002 12:37:37 pm PDT #597 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I thought they were centered! Once again, my sense of reality is restored, however fragilely. Which leaves us with my original question about bringing the text box and the links flush left with the posts column, which is just a small-screen issue, as I understand it. Right?
Jon B. - Oct 08, 2002 12:51:18 pm PDT #598 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
which is just a small-screen issue, as I understand it. Right?
That is correct.
Michele T. - Oct 08, 2002 1:28:04 pm PDT #599 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
OK! Hec, buy a new monitor when you're re-employed, and we'll revisit the issue then. ;)
Jesse - Oct 08, 2002 1:51:57 pm PDT #600 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, you know what's really fun? Going directly to buffisas.org/read_new.php. I don't even have to SEE the other threads. NICE.