RE: [Openinteract-dev] OI2: Use CSS for themes?

[Peter E. <pe...@dr...>]

At 10:29 AM 2/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Just a quick show of hands: how many folks would like to use CSS for
>display formatting in OI2 versus the current inlined font/color/etc.
>stuff?

I'd second Andrew on this, use CSS2. Cross-platform support is a bit patchy
in places (I tend to resort to tables for layout) but it is much easier
providing themes for different customers using CSS and degrades well on
older browsers. I've been down the hand-coded FONT tags route and converting
to stylesheets was not fun.

One problem I've found is if you use a SELECT dropdown then it shows through
layers. This is part of the HTML standard, unfortunately, so there's a
choice of simple screens (my preference), or using Javascript to show/hide
SELECTs, or using TABLEs as containers instead of DIVs.

-Peter

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