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From: Manfred Lechner ...@hobbysommer.com>
Subject: Re: IE 5/Mac Template Breakage/body{} q's
In-Reply-To: Re: IE 5/Mac Template Breakage/body{} q's
Date: September 3rd 2005

Sorry Shane I needed some sleep in between :-)

So here are the MSIE/Mac 5.1.7 Mac OS9 results.

As far as the header is concerned, all three Template Breakage/body{} fixes

http://a-ok.net/dadadev/2.10b1-floatclearing_testfixA.html, testfixB.html, testfixC.html

work fine in MSIE/Mac 5.1.7, Mozilla 1.2.1 and in Opera 6.03 as well

--> http://www.hobbysommer.net/web/testfix.html

so as for the header, it looks like you found a solution and can probably use the preferred testfixB version.

By "bigger", do you mean that both the header and the content below it are *wider* than they were in 2.9.2?

The effect I meant was (please look at my picture for reference) that distance A (marked in RED at the right) above the heading line is wider than distance B. In case, that is the correct behaviour, we are done.

However, I also found two more funny effects that I find no problem but which are probably not desired. I have marked them with red arrows at the left. This is valid for all testfixed floatclearing versions.

a) In MSIE/mac OS9 the Popup menu content does not completely fill the defined Popup Area as soon as you click on the menu item (this effect can be seen on my picture)

b) In both Opera 6.03/mac OS9 and MSIE/mac OS9 the radio buttons have black squares around them (as to be seen on my picture.

...Okay, so let's try something different for our float clearing that won't hide any of the header copy like Manfred's last screenshots showed. Because we're now dealing with a new problem that will affect *all* browsers and platforms, I'll welcome wider testing than just OS9....

Float Clearing Testfix A:

Uses the float clearing hack at: positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html , and leaves the HTML unchanged.

http://a-ok.net/dadadev/2.10b1-floatclearing_testfixA.html

Known to work in:

Moz/Win

IE6/Win

IE5.5/Win

IE5.10/Win

Float Clearing Testfix B:

Just like testfix A, but minus one rule that I'm convinced -- convinced, I tell you!! -- we don't need.

http://a-ok.net/dadadev/2.10b1-floatclearing_testfixB.html

Known to work in:

Moz/Win

IE6/Win

IE5.5/Win

IE5.10/Win

Float Clearing Testfix C:

The W3C-recommended hack that's just as ugly as the ones above, but ugly in a different way. For this fix we have to add an extra:

<div class="spacer"></div>

to the HTML, in both default_list_template and default_admin_template. (I was really trying to avoid this....)

http://a-ok.net/dadadev/2.10b1-floatclearing_testfixC.html

Known to work in:

Moz/Win

IE6/Win

IE5.5/Win

IE5.10/Win

So, it's weird to be asking this again, but because Santa isn't delivering me a Mac any time soon...

I'd appreciate browser testing of the above three testfixes from any and all Mac OS/browser combinations. [And if you'd like to test for Opera/Win and Netscape/Win, which I never seem to get around to installing, that would be great, too! :-) ]

(P.S. - I know this testing process is starting to look ugly, but we're close to the end, I promise!)

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