[thelist] Netscape 4.7 table drawing

[Steve Cook]

Excellent help from both posters.

I feel almost embarrassed by posting that code ;-) I love the look of our
layout, but it's a nightmare to work with. The one good thing about it is
that when we get the time to redesign, we'll be able to apply a new design
to the whole site in one go thanks to some careful templating.

I kinda doubt that I'll be able to really solve the problem in Netscape, but
I'll be doing all I can to reduce the problem.

<tip type="Netscape table backgrounds">

Having problems with some small table background images disappearing? Try
swapping temporarily to an image that does display. You may find that
Netscape is barfing over a small gif with less than 4 colours and a
transparent background. It may be worthwhile setting a coloured background
instead.

</tip>


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Steve Cook
web strategist
Evitbe AB
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kristina [mailto:kristina at kfx-design.co.uk]
> Sent: den 5 september 2001 13:17
> To: Steve Cook
> Subject: Re[2]: [thelist] Netscape 4.7 table drawing
> 
> 
> Steve,
>   hi
>   i've had a quick look at your code and which revealed a missing
>   </td></tr> which will upset netscape... if you add the </td></tr>
>   that may help netscape read the file better
> 
>   in your code the place the </td></tr> should be is between 
> lines 323 & 325
>   
>   & yes there are heaps of tables there (*eek*) and without spending
>   hours i'm not sure how you could speed it up in netscape, as the
>   layout doesn't really allow the tables to be split.... (easily)
> 
>  ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬
> : The blue boxes in the design don't seem to cause any 
> problems for Netscape -
> : we use that layout on many pages without any problem. It's 
> the calendar code
> : that seems to really cause problems.
>  ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬
> 
>  imo it would be better to use the css to control the colours of your
>  tds (of anything infact) - the <b> tag is now deprecated - you should
>  use <strong> &/or css
> 
>  i'm not totally sure why you have bits of code like this:
>  <td background="/img/pix_trans.gif"><img 
> src="/img/pix_trans.gif" width="1" height="5"></td>
> 
>  imho the following would be sufficient:
>  <td><img src="/img/pix_trans.gif" width="1" height="5"></td>
> 
>  'again' imho it is good practice to put double quotes around all
>  attributes
> 
>  alignments (should) easier said than done i know - should be
>  controled by the css - i noticed <td align="center"> - this would be
>  easier to handle through the css
> 
>  bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#666666" leftmargin=0 link="#31528F"
>  vlink="#31528F" alink="#31528F" - again would be better controled by
>  the css
> 
>  <td height=19 
> background="/img/interface/standard/layers/tbl_bg_left_top.gif
> "><img src="/img/pix_trans.gif" width=1 height=19></td>
>  would be better:
>    <td 
> background="/img/interface/standard/layers/tbl_bg_left_top.gif
> "><img src="/img/pix_trans.gif" width=1 height=19></td>
>  (as the height is determined by the second img)
> 
>  the above things would make less code, and would be much easier for
>  you to maintain
>  
>   btw i really liked the design - very nice
> 
>   hope i have helped  ;o) - & not been a pain in the £$%^%
> 
> -- 
> hth
>  kristina                       
> 
> 
> kristina at kfx-design.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of 
> two characters.
> One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
> -- John F. Kennedy
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
>  kristina                      
> 
> kristina at kfx-design.co.uk
> 
> 
> "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of 
> two characters.
> One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
> -- John F. Kennedy
> 
> 
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