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

From: <wxp...@co...> - 2006-02-12 00:13:23

Here's a screenshot -
http://i13=2Ephotobucket=2Ecom/albums/a280/picpcs/ugly=2Ejpg

If anyone needs any help with anything let me know and I'll chip in howeve=
r
I can :)=2E

Ryan

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

From: Otto W. <ott...@or...> - 2006-02-12 15:57:01

wxp...@co... wrote:
> Here's a screenshot -
> http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/picpcs/ugly.jpg
>
> If anyone needs any help with anything let me know and I'll chip in however
> I can :).
>
> Ryan
>
>
>   
What can you help? Improving the web site or what you mean?

O. Wyss

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

From: Angelo M. <ama...@gm...> - 2006-02-12 17:57:21

Ryan,

My recommendation to you is to stop using Internet Explorer.  Get Firefox,
www.getfirefox.com.  Once you see some web sites in Firefox, you will never
go back to IE.

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=3D"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.

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.

If you are a web developer, you will definitely want to use Firefox.  There
is a Tidy extension which verifies your HTML for you and a Web Developer
extension which works great when your trying to solve problems with your
style sheets, div/span layouts, etc...

If you are a hardcore IE user, I would just make your window bigger.  That
will solve the text overlay problem.

--angelo

On 2/12/06, Otto Wyss <ott...@or...> wrote:
>
> wxp...@co... wrote:
> > Here's a screenshot -
> > http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/picpcs/ugly.jpg
> >
> > If anyone needs any help with anything let me know and I'll chip in
> however
> > I can :).
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> What can you help? Improving the web site or what you mean?
>
> O. Wyss
>
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[wxCode-users] Re: top of webpage with internet explorer looks bad

From: Francesco M. <f18...@ya...> - 2006-02-12 20:57:57

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

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

From: Angelo M. <ama...@gm...> - 2006-02-12 21:46:24

png transparency was added to the IE 7 beta 2 that I tested.

IE 7 beta 2 still does not read the style color 'transparent'.  I use the
transparent property in Firefox to give a border to my elements, to use the
background color of the page.  In IE its a white border if you specify
transparent.  Quite annoying.

--angelo

On 2/12/06, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
>
> 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=3D"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 anothe=
r
> > 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
>
>
>
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