Can anyone help with this?

[harry]

My app is for an Intranet & is required to run ONLY on IE 5.5 (sp2) -
minimum screen resolution is 800*600

I have a web page that is dynamically created, the page is actually a report
that the client wants.

The report is formatted in a table but because the report has 19 columns I'm
having lots of trouble deciding how to specify the column widths

If I use fixed width's I can quite easily show the report exactly as I want
because the Browser allows horz scrolling but when I do a print preview
everything that doesn't fit on one page width is chopped - thought it might
wrap on to other pages but it doesn't!

If I use % to specify column width's the page displayed in the browser looks
awful & still won't fit on one screen as there are so many columns!

Experimented with CSS's media="print" option but still can't get this to
work!

Has anyone any ideas how I can solve this? - perhaps I'm missing something
basic here but I need to display the report in the Browser on a 800*600
system across nearly 2 screens & print it out properly?

Hope I've explained it clearly?

thanks

harry

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

My app is for an Intranet & is required to run ONLY on IE 5.5 (sp2)
- minimum screen resolution is 800*600

But what will you do when the IT department suddenly realizes the
error of their ways and upgrades everyone to Firefox next week?

I have a web page that is dynamically created, the page is actually
a report that the client wants.

The report is formatted in a table but because the report has 19
columns I'm having lots of trouble deciding how to specify the
column widths

Well, considering that HTML is not really designed for print media,
and since what you are describing sounds more like a spreadsheet than
a web page, have you considered alternative delivery?

Has anyone any ideas how I can solve this? - perhaps I'm missing
something basic here but I need to display the report in the
Browser on a 800*600 system across nearly 2 screens & print it out
properly?

You would only be able to print as wide as Landscape, when that is
chosen by your viewer.

 

[Travis Newbury]

But what will you do when the IT department suddenly realizes the
error of their ways and upgrades everyone to Firefox next week?

AH HAHAHAHA Like there is a company out here smart enough to do
that....

 

[harry]

thanks for that, unfortunetly I don't decide the Browser & the client has
decided to only ever use IE!

 

[nice.guy.nige]

While the city slept, Beauregard T. Shagnasty ([email protected])
feverishly typed...

But what will you do when the IT department suddenly realizes the
error of their ways and upgrades everyone to Firefox next week?

Do it again and charge them again? Assuming "To run only in IE5.5" was in
the spec of course... ;-)

Cheers,
Nige

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

[top-posting corrected]

thanks for that, unfortunetly I don't decide the Browser & the
client has decided to only ever use IE!

"Only ever use IE." Ok ... so next week he buys a new computer that
doesn't have Windows 98 on it, now has XP SP2, which is the newest
nearly five-year-old IE6. Will your pages still work?

What if next week your client gets hit by a massive spyware attack,
and the consultant called to fix the problem convinces him/her that
using IE is a great security risk and he *should* upgrade.

Your answer is of course to design whatever it is so that it works in
*any* browser. This is much easier than trying to write hacks for a
single ancient one.

Or ... do those 19 columns in Excel. Do you have any kind of
sample you could show as to what exactly these 19 columns are?

 

[Toby Inkster]

AH HAHAHAHA Like there is a company out here smart enough to do
that....

Ahahahaha! Mine did!

 

[Travis Newbury]

Ahahahaha! Mine did!

I meant one that matters.... (0-o)

 

[Andy Dingley]

My app is for an Intranet & is required to run ONLY on IE 5.5 (sp2) -

No it isn't..

 

[Travis Newbury]

No it isn't..

And you know this because....

 

[Lauri Raittila]

And you know this because....

Because it would make very little sence.

I bet requirement is that it has to work in IE5.5. It is very unlikely
that it would be forbidden to have it work on other browsers.

 

[Toby Inkster]

And you know this because....

Presumably because that would be a very stupid job spec.

"is ONLY required to run on IE 5.5" is slightly stupid.
"is required to run ONLY on IE 5.5" is very stupid.

 

[Travis Newbury]

Lauri Raittila wrote:e

Because it would make very little sence.
I bet requirement is that it has to work in IE5.5. It is very unlikely
that it would be forbidden to have it work on other browsers.

The OP said:
"My app is for an Intranet & is required to run ONLY on IE 5.5 (sp2) -
minimum screen resolution is 800*600 "

Only someone looking to start an argument would read that as exclusive.
It is obvious what he/she meant.

 

[Andy Dingley]

"is ONLY required to run on IE 5.5" is slightly stupid.

It's still too stupid for usenet (and the original phrasing was of
course worse)

Now maybe some pointy-haired boss somewhere really does think that. But
it's so stupid a constraint that it's unworthy of further discussion in
a HTML newsgroup. None of us are (hopefully) here to further such
wrong-headed notions.


Besides which, I don't believe there's a way to have IE5.5 running loose
in an office with web access that isn't unacceptable insecure against
attack by external nasties. If you're going to have a corporate browser
policy at all, it ought to focus on exterminating IE 5.5, not
encouraging it.