[wxCode-users] Re: top of webpage with internet explorer looks bad

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

Angelo Mandato ha scritto:
> My recommendation to you is to stop using Internet Explorer.  Get 
> Firefox, www.getfirefox.com <http://www.getfirefox.com>.  Once you see 
> some web sites in Firefox, you will never go back to IE.
I completely agree :)
The first program I install on a fresh windows is Firefox.
Unfortunately (but not surprisingly) IE cannot be completely uninstalled 
from win AFAIK ;)

> The site is using a very well thought out style sheet. To make the site 
> accessible to vision impaired users, it does not use specific font 
> sizes, rather it uses percents.  This is because IE does not allow 
> styles to be resized with the font resize option if the style sheet has 
> the font sizes specified.  Example: <div style="font-size: 12px;">can't 
> resize this in IE</div>.  You can change the font size till you turn 
> blue in IE, but that div text will never resize.  When you resize in 
> Firefox, the text does get larger.  This is just one of the many 
> problems with IE.
Angelo is perfectly right.
That's the problem.
I managed to find a fix for IE's lacking support of transparent PNG (for 
the wxCode logo) but I could not get around this.
If anyone finds a way to fix this IE problem without affecting other 
(correctly working !) browser, I'd be glad to apply the patch.

I tried to make the website as more conformant as possible to XHTML and 
CSS2 but there are still some few problems with resizing, which I 
planned to fix but never find time to...


> You may be semi happy to know the future IE 7 will have a zoom feature.  
> To overcome this, the zoom feature simply makes the viewing area of IE 
> bigger.  I got the impression they took the easy way out.  If your 
> having problems reading the text in the page, that does not mean you 
> want the images and everything else to get larger.  This is just another 
> example of how much Microsoft did not improve IE 7.
they say that IE7 will have also transparent PNG support; we'll see if 
this is true; AFAIK transparent image support in IE has been asked since 
IE 5 !

Francesco