Sent by Gerhard Schoening on 30 July 2002 20:08
Hello Owen,
On Wednesday, July 31, 2002 at 01:01 you wrote:
>>http://www.schoening-online.de/test/head3fluidfoot01.html
> very nice. and anyone who has a window so small to make
> that act funny will be getting messy results for most web
> pages, so you needn't worry.
Hopefully :)
> but dang i wish there was a way to set an overall minimum
> width at which point a horizontal scrollbar is provided. a pox
> on ms for denying us that ruleset. we really need it.
I do agree ;-))
>>That's exactly what I fear, regarding the dynamic content
> of my pages... my test page still has pretty simple content.
>>
> yeah, that's the issue, even without dynamic generation;
> you need to leave comments to future maintainers about
> maximum sizes. have it in the code and in the style guide.
> add dynamic content and you have to have some way to
> sift the database by content width [watch out for PRE], and
> you need to have some way of warning whoever is adding
> to the database.
> it's a tough issue.
Yeah - I'm afraid it is... it's something I tend to "put off
to St Never's Day" (German saying)... *g*
> url's as text add to the fun. i've already forgotten which
> browser does which, but some wrap these and others don't.
Argh - *I HATE BROWSERS* ;)
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Gerhard
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