[thelist] Site Checks

[Hershel Robinson]

http://www.mishpachaw.com/index.php

> Blue Robot layout, if iirc?

Well, I suppose it could be. The designer presented me with PDFs and we 
just wrote what seemed to be to be appropriate HTML and CSS. Actually 
maybe someone else did the initial CSS layout, so maybe it is Blue Robot.

> Looks fine with *nix and Konqueror out here
> on the Pacific Ocean, also ok with Win9x and Firefox and IE - maybe
> Felix has his browser defaults set at smaller, most of the font sizes in
> the css are .9em or .8em which should be readable for most people...

That's what I thought.

 > Actually this has nothing directly to do with browser or OS. What I
 > found was:
 >
 > 1-http://www.mishpachaw.com/css/main.css does not respect the user
 > default font size for paragraph text p {font-size: .9em;}. See
 > http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/defaultsize.html
 > 2-non-standard charset http://www.mishpachaw.com/index.php <meta
 > content="text/html; charset=Windows-1255" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
 > 3-I had set only Western to the size I need in Firefox font prefs, so
 > all the others, including whatever windows-1255 is, remained at the
 > original too small default size. So, I got them almost big enough by
 > setting them all the same as the Western setting.

Sounds to me like you are one of those web developer types who knows his 
browser all too well. I have my doubts as to how many laymen will 
experience such issues.

Does anyone else perceive this CSS as problematic:

p {font-size: .9em;}

Seems to me (in my innocence) to be fairly normal and inoccuous.

 > Can't your page render properly in utf8?

I don't think so. At least not on my machine. The problem is the Hebrew 
  characters--in UTF8 they don't show up as Hebrew.

 > Well everybody should if they don't have a problem with ISPs or gummints
 > preventing access to free software, or have no burner. Knoppix, as
 > various other Linux distros, can be run directly from a CD:
 > http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

Well now how do you like that? I actually HAVE a Knoppix CD. I just have 
been stuck in a Win IE6-only site for so long that my cross-browser 
cross-platform testing skills are rusty. I must dig out that CD. :)

Thanks,
Hershel