Re: Proposal for new layout of the GNUstep website now online

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

>Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> Background images are lame ;-) and you need to make them quite large to
>> avoid pattering, what looks *really* awkward.
>
>No, you don't.
>
>BODY {          background: lightgrey url(bgimage.png) no-repeat 1in 1in 
}
>
>displays a light grey background with the image "bgimage.png" 
superimposed
>on it, offset 1 inch by 1 inch, and is perfectly valid CSS/1.
>
>And then don't set anything regarding the background for non-CSS 
browsers.
>
>If you need any special versions (such as a text version) when you're
>using CSS, You're Doing It Wrong(tm).

In theory you are right, but in reality there are some problems with the 
different blends of browsers, not all of which support several CSS 
Features properly. 

Or you go for UNPREDICTABLE BEHAVIOUR (tm) of your html: I tried to use a 
table free layout with flow control (float:left; to place the divs next to 
each other, clear:left; to force a break) which worked to a point - even 
in Internet Explorer - but behaved completely weird when I resized the 
browserwindow to narrow (It started to break where it shouldn't, which 
looked REALLY UGLY (tm)) the next approach was the use of display:table; , 
display:table-row;  and display:table-cell; to controll the layout of the 
divs, but this (example: 
http://selfhtml.teamone.de/css/eigenschaften/anzeige/display2.htm) does not 
work at all in Internet Explorer (which I simply can't ignore - 
it is to widely used). So I am back to the use of tables since those are 
properly supported by most of the browsers in use.

Anyway, what happens if you serve a table layout to a commandline browser 
like lynx? Anybody around here who has experiences with that?

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greetings, Lars