[thelist] Netscape 4.7 table drawing

kristina kristina at kfx-design.co.uk
Wed Sep 5 06:20:56 CDT 2001


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)

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: 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.
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 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



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 kristina                      

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