Re: Look, ma, no tables!

by David Kendall <david(at)homepagesplus.com>

 Date:  Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:09:44 -0600
 To:  HWG-L <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 Cc:  dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
 References:  uky
  todo: View Thread, Original
> No, the "columns" phrasing is ok. Think of them as newspaper columns -
> which CSS still doesn't really do. After all, use of tables as text
> layout devices began with the desire to have multicolumn layouts on
> web pages, just like you do in print media.

Phrasing may be correct, but they obviously don't display right on all 
browsers.  (I used the layout tutorial at http://www.glish.com/css/ to 
help with the columns.)

> When I click on David, in Firefox the scrollbar appears across the
> bottom of the page because the width is excessively large. Again, in
> IE this is not the case.

This may be a bit harder to fix, the picture of the flag flying on the 
flagpole is 575x420, I don't want to resize the picture because it 
may take away from the look of it (like the resized flag thumbnails).  
My screen resolution is rather big (or small, I don't know how that's 
counted) (640x480), and it doesn't display with a  scroll bar (granted 
on my IE, I didn't check in all browsers, and I still haven't 
downloaded Firefox (no time).)  I believe most people's resolution is 
smaller (or larger) - 1024x768, so I'm guessing it'll display just as 
well there.
 
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David Kendall - david(at)homepagesplus.com
http://www.homepagesplus.com/david

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