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IE6 on w2k: no scroll and mis-positioned elements

Sent by Rich Points on 29 October 2004 04:04


Hey Rich,
I think your problem is stemming from the absolutely positioned elements on 
the page.  Your getting a bottom scroll bar because your logo and image are 
1190 pixels wide.  I always make my page no larger than 800X600px because a 
significant audience is still using that resolution.  You can find 
resolution and other stats here 
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

I went through and quickly tweaked you site using the contact page.  I 
changed a bunch of stuff but some of the major changes were:
    1)  Merged the logo and the header image to make one image 750px wide
    2)  Removed absolutely positioned elements
    3)  Changed font to Arial; this is a personal
          preference, I suggest comparing it to Garamond and see what you 
like best
    3)  Simplified rules such as block
    4)  I've been playing with backgrounds lately and I thought of this
          one when I saw your color scheme

I'm not sure this is the design you are after but it should give you and 
idea what it's like to use relatively positioned elements.
http://richpoints.com/applied/

Feel free to use as much or as little of it as you like

Peace

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Shepard" [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
To: [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: [css-d] IE6 on w2k: no scroll and mis-positioned elements


>   I've just put my completely re-written site on the public httpd server
> <http://www.appl-ecosys.com/> and received a report from a friend running
> w2k with ie6 that long pages do not scroll and two page components (along
> the left side) overlap components to their right. I find nothing on google
> searching for "+css +ie6".
>
>   This does not show up in firefox-0.9.3, mozilla-1.6, opera-6.54, lynx or
> links.
>
>   On each page's masthead I have two images; the logo on the left. Both 
> are
> positioned 'absolute'. on ie6 the logo slides over the right-hand image.
>
>   In the middle part of the page I have pull quotes
> (<blockquote>...</blockquote>) on the left and they slide over the page's
> data content block on the right.
>
>   Pages longer than his browser window size do not scroll; they're
> truncated.
>
>   Is there anything I can do to accommodate this combination? Or, should I
> tell him to bow to Microsoft's strategy and upgrade to their latest?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
> -- 
> Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
> Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
> <http://www.appl-ecosys.com>   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863
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