[Pythoncard-users] How about CSS for Layout

[Peter C. <pe...@pe...>]

Hi all,

I just started reading the list, and I noticed the discussion of "sizers" 
to control the GUI appearance. I can sure see the cross platform 
differences in widget rendering. What are sizers?  (They sound like 
something from the Java AWT - but I'm just guessing.)  It's clear the fixed 
co-ordinate system HyperCard used will be difficult to sustain across many 
platforms and windowing kits.

I've done a lot recently with these same issues in the HTML world.  I am 
working on some ASP code that uses an XML Schema to dynamically define HTML 
data collection forms to build a valid XML document.  I found I could get 
decent layout control without absolute positioning, using just tables, some 
<div> container elements, and CSS.  There is little use of fixed pixel 
sizes, so the layouts to look reasonable in IE, Opera and Netscape.

Perhaps PythonCard could borrow some of the CSS syntax.  Specifying 
font-family as a list of requested fonts, falling to default if none are 
available.  Font-size and box/containment properties (border, padding, 
margin, etc.) could be in pixels, but the actual width and height of most 
things could fall where they may.

Peter