help mac and ie5

[mark | r]

ive just launched www.sicl.co.uk and im getting reports that it doesnt work
in ie5 on a mac... as i dont have a mac ive no way of correcting these
errors... anyone help me out?

mark

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

ive just launched www.sicl.co.uk and im getting reports that it doesnt work
in ie5 on a mac... as i dont have a mac ive no way of correcting these
errors... anyone help me out?

No idea about that, but I just viewed your page using Firefox with a
minimum font size (14px) set. Those blue boxes (the ones with headings
involving networks) overflow, and since their text is the same color as
the background outside, they become unreadable.

http://ecritters.biz/unreadableblueboxes.png

 

[mark | r]

No idea about that, but I just viewed your page using Firefox with a
minimum font size (14px) set. Those blue boxes (the ones with headings
involving networks) overflow, and since their text is the same color as
the background outside, they become unreadable.

http://ecritters.biz/unreadableblueboxes.png

thanks for that... how do you get UL to accurateley sit around LI - if i
dont set the height, the blue background only reaches approx 10px down into
this area.

mark

 

[kchayka]

thanks for that... how do you get UL to accurateley sit around LI - if i
dont set the height, the blue background only reaches approx 10px down into
this area.

Are you relying on WinIE's broken CSS to get a particular visual effect?
Floated elements (<li> in your case) should be removed from normal flow,
so they shouldn't affect the container (<ul> or <div>) height. One
solution is to not use list markup. IMO it isn't necessarily warranted
here anyway. Regardless, how to deal with float containers has been
posted many, many times. You could probably find the answer in the
google archives within a few minutes. Hint: "clear:both".

BTW, the blue boxes aren't the only area with overflow trouble. Neither
the boxes next to it nor the DHTML menus adjust with text size either.
Oh, and the page looks quite awful with JavaScript disabled, but then I
get some error with JS enabled so it seems that it is a lose-lose situation.

As for MacIE, it has quite buggy overflow handling, as well as quirky
floats. How to get this layout to "work" in MacIE may not be so easy as
simply adjusting a width (or whatever). However, if you stop depending
on particular font sizes and pixel-precision for layout, you might get
better results. But then, people have been telling you this for a long
time now. Here's that link again, in case you've lost it

<URL:http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign>

 

[mark | r]

Are you relying on WinIE's broken CSS to get a particular visual effect?
Floated elements (<li> in your case) should be removed from normal flow,
so they shouldn't affect the container (<ul> or <div>) height. One
solution is to not use list markup. IMO it isn't necessarily warranted
here anyway. Regardless, how to deal with float containers has been
posted many, many times. You could probably find the answer in the
google archives within a few minutes. Hint: "clear:both".

BTW, the blue boxes aren't the only area with overflow trouble. Neither
the boxes next to it nor the DHTML menus adjust with text size either.
Oh, and the page looks quite awful with JavaScript disabled, but then I
get some error with JS enabled so it seems that it is a lose-lose
situation.

As for MacIE, it has quite buggy overflow handling, as well as quirky
floats. How to get this layout to "work" in MacIE may not be so easy as
simply adjusting a width (or whatever). However, if you stop depending
on particular font sizes and pixel-precision for layout, you might get
better results. But then, people have been telling you this for a long
time now. Here's that link again, in case you've lost it

<URL:http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign>

it works in moz tho so i thought that was the benchmark

btw does anyone have any tips for handling sites that have masses ot fiered
menues (like this one) as i know theres an issue when you turn everything
off

mark