the problem isn't the font size...

Post #255,681 by cforde 5/17/06 3:33:44 AM Reply	the problem isn't the font size... the problem is IE's shoddy CSS support. Safari & Firefox can bump the font size up 3 notches and it still renders fine, except for the 'Search Slashdot' button over flows the green bar, but that's minor. increasing the font 4 times causes the right menu to become cramped (it's fixed at 220 pixels wide). try a recent version of Opera or Firefox and see what happens. Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #255,684 by CRConrad 5/17/06 3:49:55 AM Reply	No, the problem is using that stupid CSS crap. Sure, I know all the theoretical philosophical arguments against using tables... No, wait, BTW, I forgot -- What the heck IS the problem with using tables for layout, again? Your layout is basically a grid: Columns on the left, columns on the right, one square area next to another; one such row below another, etc, etc. Newsflash: That's pretty fucking much the very DEFINITION of a table! Theoretical philosophical arguments against it or not, all I know for sure is that in stupid old pooh-poohed-by-the-cognoscenti table-based layouts, shit like that doesn't happen. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link\|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105\|Mr. Hat]
Post #255,739 by Andrew Grygus 5/17/06 12:52:47 PM Reply	Oh, don't be silly. Tables = works in all browsers therefor tables = hoplessly obsolete - do not use. CSS = works sometimes in some browsers therefor CSS = clearly the way to go! [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #255,819 by cforde 5/18/06 12:01:35 AM Reply	don't look now, but your age is showing tables are soooo 1999. you want to hang with the cool kids, ya gotta bring the cool toys... :-) Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #255,820 by Andrew Grygus 5/18/06 12:09:39 AM Reply	I'm just sit'n back ta watch the cool kids hang themselves. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #255,827 by cforde 5/18/06 1:50:52 AM Reply	behold the lowly tortoise... he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #255,828 by Andrew Grygus 5/18/06 2:24:52 AM Reply	Behold the lowly tortoise... . . who hath stuck his neck out and made progress on the highway of life. Behold the ravens so gleaming black, enjoying pressed tortoise frisbee on lane 2 of the highway of life. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #255,754 by ChrisR 5/17/06 2:24:58 PM Reply	It's all in the name Had they the foresight to call it "GridLayoutManager" instead of "Table", all would have been quite impressed. But to call it Table means that it confuses the model and viewer aspects.
Post #255,822 by cforde 5/18/06 12:17:30 AM Reply	yeah, that's what I'll do... I'll create a JS class called GridLayoutManager, it'll take a layout specification and generate XML to dynamically create divs in a tabular canvas. let's see we'd need rows, columns, cells, border, gutters, headers, footers, captions, dynamically changeable actions, that should do it... it would be better than <table>, this would be enterprise.... Have fun, Carl Forde

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