[thelist] Netscape 4.7 table drawing

[Ed Courtenay]

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Ed Courtenay
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----- Original Message -----
From: "kristina" <kristina at kfx-design.co.uk>
To: "Steve Cook" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:17 PM
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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