Re: should I go back to tables in HTML instead of CSS?

On Mon, 15 May 2006 19:03:54 GMT Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|
|> On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:29:32 GMT Beauregard T. Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>| It was posted as a sample. Feel free to make adjustments.
|>
|> Just how wide it will fail depends on the total width of objects
|> inside. Don't assume everyone has little tiny stuff.
|
| Everyone *should* have little tiny stuff! ;-)
|
| Again, it was just an exercise - that did happen to work perfectly for
| the person who asked the original question a couple years ago. He had
| two side graphics of maybe a hundred px wide, with the site name in the
| middle, in a large decorative font.

That's not a general solution. I just happens to work with some sites with
browser window sizes at least as large as most people use. The few cases
where people run browsers in tiny windows isn't the issue (though it
certainly raises the issue of how to display things on tiny devices like cell
phones). The issue is when you have larger objects to fit in. Take a look
at this first phase of my redesign of http://linuxhomepage.com/ where I have
used floating boxes for the top row. It doesn't take too much shrinkage for
that top row to split into two rows. Because the banner is first, floated
right, it will stay at the top. The box with the site name text, floated
left, will come down to the next row. I can use the floating box model here
because that doesn't impact things (much). But the main body of the site is
3 major columns of text, with vertical flow within each column. Shrink the
window horizontally and you still have 3 columns staying side by side. The
intent is for the columns to stay side by side. If there was a means to make
it dynamically change to 2 columns, that might work (but at issue will be how
to order the boxes within each column when the boxes in column 3 now have to
be placed in columns 1 and 2).

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