[Techtalk] Fixing up live.linuxchix.org

[Meryll Larkin]

Yeah, I know what is causing it:

DIV tags.  I never use them.  There may be other things too and I don't have
time to research them right now (as I'm studying for a test), but here is
what I would do for starters:

1.  Put the HTML page in a proper table to control the edges.
2.  Replace <div with <span  
    <span class="livecontainer"
3.  If you are using <div for SPACING (Space formatting) of any kind,
replace it with tables.  
Do not control spacing with <div  It is not rendered the same by all
browsers.  Use <span for text formatting.

Hope that helps,
Meryll


-----Original Message-----
From: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org [mailto:techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org]
On Behalf Of Mary
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:43 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [Techtalk] Fixing up live.linuxchix.org

Hi folks,

A reader of http://live.linuxchix.org/ pointed out to me that the site
is unreadable for her. It looks like this to her:
http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/tmp/live.linuxchix.org/bad-screenshot.j
pg

She also reports that this happens on a bunch of browsers, including
Konquerer and Firefox for Windows.

The bad news is, I can't replicate it on browsers I'm running (Firefox
on FC3 and Ubuntu 5.04, Epiphany -- which is the Firefix renderer anyway
-- on Ubuntu 5.04). I've taken a bunch of screne shots from my own browser
at a bunch of
resolutions and I don't get the missing text effect:

 1. http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/tmp/live.linuxchix.org/640x480.jpg
 2. http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/tmp/live.linuxchix.org/800x600.jpg
 3. http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/tmp/live.linuxchix.org/1024x768.jpg

Anyone got any tips on what's causing this? Since I can't replicate it,
I'd also appreciate help testing the changes (ie, if you say "try blah"
all I can do is try it and reply "um, tell me if it worked", which might
take a while).

Also, side-note, I know that page is claiming to be valid XHTML and it
isn't. (It's also not going to be, since I'm importing other people's
HTML -- so no "but you have to make it validate" nags unless you're
willing to fix the Planet software yourself. Ta.) I will remove that
claim in about an hour's time.

-Mary
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