Re: New Cream website beta
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From: Ben A. <BAr...@dy...> - 2006-06-07 10:53:30
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Steve Hall wrote: > This design is probably not going to work for less than 1024x768, it > devotes too much screen real estate to graphics and effects. If the > cells get any narrower, there will be no room for content! > Fair enough. > I figured our target would have average hardware or above. Obviously, > there's the whole issue with newer portable devices (phones, PDAs, > etc.), but I didn't figure our audience would read the site with such > a device. It's a dilemma, the old site works well for low res, but it > has all the earmarks of 2002 design. :) > It's an acceptable compromise. Until we get actual complaints/suggestions from portable device users, I wouldn't worry about it. > The only way I know to fix this is to abandon true CSS2 layout in > favor of tables. IE is so broken it will not respond to "min-width" > and "float" type attributes as needed to make the 4-squares be > flexible enough to grow a little bit for larger widths. (Firefox, > Opera, etc. are no problem.) > > I'm willing to convert to tables if we think that is better than > requiring 1024. > I have no strong feelings about it one way or the other. Do whatever is necessary to keep the site reasonably attractive, functional, and consistent from one browser to another without overly burdening yourself with maintenance of arcane tweaks. Ben |