Re: [Bodington-developers] Top frame styling improvement - commited to HEAD

[Antony C. <an...@sm...>]

How about a much simpler approach?!! Just add a method 'public static 
String trimText(String text, int maxLength)' to 
org.bodington.util.TextUtils and use that whenever there's a limited 
space for displaying text? Could always use title attribute in link to 
display full text. As I said we've also removed search and links from 
the navigation div so we have more space to play with.

On 21 Jun 2006, at 16:56, Jon Maber wrote:

> In summary,
> o There is a good solution - using CSS 2.1, trouble is it requires
> browsers to properly support CSS 2.1
> o Bad browsers mean we need to use bad HTML and/or bad CSS
> o My conclusion is that we have to deal with the whackier browsers for
> the time being and plan for most browsers properly supporting CSS in a
> year or two's time.
>
> Therefore I propose an interim solution, i.e. the use of a very simple
> table with a fixed height. One cell on the left would contain the
> navigation icons and the title and within that the icons would float
> left therefore allowing the title to wrap to two or more lines beside
> it. A second cell on the right would have a fixed width and contain...
> ...what? Just the quick search?  The use of the table makes it possible
> to vertically centre all the contents which would be neat and should
> work on all browsers.
>
> The rest of the frame could be outside the table or in a second one row
> table and could also vertically centre the contents.
>
> Jon
>
>
> Owen Davies wrote:
>> having spent a fair bit of time on this, i have come to the 
>> conclusion that
>> the only justifiable solution is to have a vertical scroll bar on the 
>> top
>> frame, because any other solution prevents users who enlarge their 
>> text from
>> viewing some of the site content and/or functionality. that is, of 
>> course,
>> until the dreaded frames are ditched!
>>
>> owen
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin Tatham" <col...@ou...>
>> To: "Bodington developers" 
>> <bod...@li...>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Top frame styling improvement - 
>> commited
>> to HEAD
>>
>>
>>
>>> Jon Maber wrote:
>>>
>>>> A not very pro CSS solution would be to go back to the use of a 
>>>> table.
>>>> I.e. one row, two cells. The height of the row could be fixed and 
>>>> the
>>>> width of the right hand cell fixed. This solution would not be too 
>>>> bad
>>>> for accessibility because it could be navigated linearly and would 
>>>> work
>>>> better with browsers that implement CSS to version 1 or dont handle 
>>>> it
>>>> at all.  What do you think about tables?
>>>>
>>> If it works I wouldn't mind. We need to find a better overall 
>>> solution at
>>> some point, so this would
>>> only be in the interim.
>>>
>>> I think we should also decide what the priorities are, as we no-one 
>>> seems
>>> to have found the perfect
>>> solution yet (we've also had Owen here looking at it for quite a 
>>> while).
>>> Visual appearance? Text
>>> re-sizing in browser? Displaying full title rather than abbreviating 
>>> it?
>>> Limiting max number of
>>> parent icons to display?
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
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