Rene Rivera wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
Rene Rivera wrote:
Note, I did not originally go this way because I know how much of "traditional" group Boost is ;-) So I tried not to stray too far from the current layout.
I think you should try it. As you might guess from http://www.boost-consulting.com I am not averse to it.
I will... I just have to grapple with my own fears of copying myself as it will look like the design I'm doing for Spirit :-\
I don't think there's anything wrong with the main Boost site and Spirit's site being similar.
That is, I would like to have a maximum width into which all of the page text will flow.
Possible, but has its own set of problems..
I'd like that width to normally be considerably less than that of my screen,
Not possible.. The problem is defining "my screen". Since that changes for everyone one can never have a measure that includes everyone.
I didn't mean to establish a technical criterion there or say that it should work for everyone. I just wanted to say that the text shouldn't stretch all the way across an average computer screen when the window is maximized.
Of course it is theoretically possible to dynamically find that size using Javascript, but then we know how much luck we've had with Javascript.
Heh.
and I'd like it to change proportionally to the font size. If that's what you've got, it's not showing up on IE6 or Firefox.
What I currently have is that all measurements are specified in em's (the width of 'M' for the untrained), unless it's something that is specifying the size of a bitmap image. This means that the margins will be larger when you make the font larger, and inversely smaller font, smaller margins.
Right. But the right margin is always measured relative to the right edge of the screen. I want a maximum and minimum distance that it can deviate from the left edge. Am I the only person who thinks this is important? Does everybody out there print their text documents in landscape orientation with a small font? Why hasn't the W3C made it possible to express this?
I alluded to problems.. One is that the 'max-width' CSS property, which is what you are wanting, is only available in CSS2. So browsers like IE don't support it.
Oh, so they have. But MS is behind the curve. Nice. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com