Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 19:06 -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> http://home.comcast.net/~marc_schwartz/FF2.png >> >> You can see that the page looks just fine. >> >> Here is the same page using FF 3.1 Beta 2, which I also DL'd from >> Mozilla, just to be sure that the same behavior is still present. BTW, >> this happens in 3.0.5, which was just released for F10 and is now the >> default version on my system: >> >> http://home.comcast.net/~marc_schwartz/FF31B2-1.png >> >> You can see the top of the page, where the left hand navigation column >> is centered, pushing the other content below it. Here is a second >> picture of the same page, scrolled down, so that you can see the >> transition to the main content: >> >> http://home.comcast.net/~marc_schwartz/FF31B2-2.png > > This looks more like CSS issues (or JavaScript, if they're messing with > JavaScript to style the page). You might narrow your problem down by > reloading the page with one or the other disabled, separately. > > But, for what it's worth, the site in the screengrab looks fine, loaded > directly here on Firefox 3.0.4 on Fedora 9. So I can't absolutely > reason why it does that, from my side of the fence. However... > > Font sizing often has peculiar effects on page layout. The authors > wrote the page using a particular size (either specified on their pages, > or set in their browsers), and it worked fine, for them. But someone > else with a different font size (because they set their browser > configuration differently, or their X resolution and scaling of fonts > changed the proportions of things) may see page layouts move about in > odd ways. > > The most common one is things wrapping oddly (e.g. like Marcelos's > example page from the Brazil website - set your browser with midget > fonts favoured by many designers, and it might work as expected; if your > fonts were originally too big to be seen properly in a text gadget, > that's a strong indication of that cause and reason). And CSS > repositioned objects (e.g. floats) can move places radically, from where > the designer expected them to land, as the browser tries to fit them in > to available/calculated space. > > The above issues generally coming about where ignorant web authors have > tried to fix the layout of a page, against the design philosophy of > webpages, with disregard for everyone's browsers not being all the same. > HTML+CSS is not a page layout system (in the way that print publishing > is), and things fall apart when stupid design assumptions are made. Tim, Thanks for your comments. See my reply to Marcelo on this, where I respond to the current state of things and the impact of disabling JS on the CW page. Thanks, Marc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
