Re: [Fofredux-devel] page footer

[Kevin <ke...@dr...>]

> I put in a temporary fix that will fix the footer either to the bottom
> of the window, or to the bottom of the content, whichever is "lower".
> This currently doesn't have the nice effect of fixing the footer to
> the bottom of the window.

I like this.  It's a good compromise between what we have now and the
footer under the old UI.  I don't like forcing positioning using JS event=
s
because the bar will jump around and distract/annoy the user (namely me)
when scrolling.

Thanks,
   Kevin


> ALA has a decent article I may implement on how to fix it to the
> bottom of the window. It is using JS, but using JS with good CSS where
> JS isn't present should make it degrade nicely and be hidable on
> diff't displays.
> http://alistapart.com/articles/footers
>
> Andrew
>
> On 8/28/06, Andrew Turner <ajt...@hi...> wrote:
>> Yeah, that is a problem. I know just enough CSS trickery to make neat
>> things, but they break easily :p
>>
>> There *should* be a way for CSS to handle this properly. I've seen
>> sites that use the JS event and that usually seems jerky, and
>> unnecessary processing for just a footer.
>>
>> I'll look into it.
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 8/28/06, Kevin <ke...@dr...> wrote:
>> >
>> > I like the way the footer anchors itself to the bottom of the viewab=
le
>> > page.  I don't like that it sticks to the page while scrolling and
>> > obscures the content under it.  I assume it needs a little JS event
>> > magic for it to work right..
>> >
>> > -Kevin
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Kevin