Lauri said:
in alt.html, Nico Schuyt wrote:
Of course, in fact I am pretty sure I could make it work in hour or 2
(took me 2 minutes to find fix for opera...). If you really want that,
contact by email and I look it out. (It won't be free, I don't do
stuff that makes no sence for free.)
<grin>But Lauri! Im shocked! You seem to be prepared to give up all your
principles for some money and help me building a site based on an invalid
design. Even I, as commercial site builder, have problems with it :0
I shall help you to resist the temptation of getting rich with such evil
activities and will *not* email you. said:
What you don't seem to get is that no matter what way you do it, it is
bad idea.
Aarrgggh, you do me wrong. Even though it was one of my first websites and I
was very unexperienced, I immediately informed the designer and the customer
about the disadvantages and suggested an alternative but, see the original
posting, '... I was not allowed to change it ..' Sometimes in life you have
to choose between bad and not ideal.
And even though it's about the worst combination of design and technique you
can think of, the damage seem to be less than expected. In all that time
there was no complaint from any visitor. The customer even got compliments
about his site
I lost my interest on overflow and fixed positioning year or
more ago, as I understood that they don't usually solve any problem,
but create more problems.
I think (hope) scrollable divs will be better implemented in browsers in the
future. They can be of great help.
About the fixed positioning I agree with you. Sometimes however a technique
as described in
http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/ can be invaluable. Think
for instance of a shopping cart that has always to be in sight of the
visitor.
Hey, no hard feelings I hope? It's just a discussion to see where the bounds
are of what is possible/practical/acceptable.
Thanks for your help!