As a follow-up to my recent rant about the problems with CSS, I thought I’d upload the current status of my attempt to rewrite the raww.org theme in XHTML/CSS – the aim is for it to look the same, but to run faster and with no tables. It’s looking OK so far in Firefox with only a minor niggle. In IE it looks… shit, basically. It’s something that I’ll need to work on. I have no idea how it looks in other browsers, so feel free to let me know. I’d be interested to know what it looks like in Opera, as that’s supposed to be fairly “compliant” when it comes to w3c standards.
FYI, the niggle that I have in Firefox is with the bottom of the left and right columns. They’re created using floating div’s, and despite a bit of hacking I can’t seem to get the footer to consistently appear below the lowest side-boxes. I’ve tried various combinations of “clear: both;” but nothing seems to do the trick. It’s not a major issue – I can live with it. But the IE issues? That I can’t be doing with. Hence this isn’t going live just yet. Hmm.
The theme can be viewed by going to icabod.org – it’s currently on version 0.1.0. Let me know what you think.
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Hmm. I’m pretty sure
clear: bothwill only work if you make #leftblocks and #rightblocks into floating blocks, rather than using absolute positioning. But then I guess you’ll get the main content flowing into the gaps after the side column content finishes.height: 100%on #leftblocks and #rightblocks maybe? Bah, CSS sucks.Yay! IE suxx again! I wouldn’t worry about it too much, as it’s only Bogie who uses IE cos he loves font embedding…
Still waiting on them CF card stuff…
I’ve not had a chance to get to the post-office to send on the stuff to you. Will do this weekend, as I’ve gotta go declare my old car “off road” so’s I don’t have to pay tax for it.