[thelist] CSS-P degradation help needed

Patrick Berry pberry at eff.org
Tue Jan 14 16:45:01 CST 2003


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Hi all,

I'm in the process of re-working our web site (http://www.eff.org/).
Right now, the front page and one other page has the "new" look, which
the rest of our site is still...well, old.  That isn't the problem
though...

I'm using a 3-column CSS based layout.  The main problem is that on
narrow screens (such as a Zarus running Opera) the flanking columns run
over the middle column.  Obviously this a bit sub-optimal since it
would be nice to degrade such that the flanking content underlapped
instead of overlapped the middle content.

Unfortunately the flanking columns are positioned absolutely and the
middle column isn't, so z-index isn't going to help.

Even WIRED has the same general problem on an extremely narrow screen,
so I'm guessing that nobody has figured out a nice[1] way of
accomplishing this.  But, I'm hoping that I've once again guessed wrong
and that there is a nice solution to this problem.  Is there?

Any other comments are greatly appreciated, as are offers for a helping
hand 8-)

[1] nice: no javascript hacks or server-side user-agent detection.

Thanks,
Pat

PS - This was posted to webdesign-L as well, so sorry if you got this
message twice
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