[thelist] Netscape 4.7 table drawing
Ed Courtenay
ed at edcourtenay.co.uk
Wed Sep 5 06:39:36 CDT 2001
This is a great opportunity for a tip methinks:
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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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