Re: Website displays "correctly" in some browsers but not in others
- From: TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:16:01 -0600
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:42:29 -0600, Wayne C. Morris wrote (in article
<wayne.morris-E2A4E2.00422819122008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
In article <0001HW.C5705B27002A8C96B01AD9AF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@xxxxxx> wrote:
Here is a link to a website under development....
<http://homepage.mac.com/taliesinsoft/ECR/index.html>
On my system the site displays as intended in Safari and Opera but not in
Firefox and Camino.
In the incorretly displayed versions the menu breaks into two lines
instead of one.
I'm curious as to whether others experience or not the same problem.
It's not the browser, it's the text size. You just have Firefox and
Camino set to use a larger default text size. You can make it happen in
Safari by pressing command-plus a few times to make the text bigger, and
make it stop happening in Firefox by pressing command-minus a few times.
Increasing and decreasing the text size does the following....
In Safari the menu text enlarges and reduces and the menu width changes,
folding if necessary. Other than the menu width changes the remainder of the
site stays the same in size.
In Firefox the entire site enlarges and reduces and the menu enlarges and
reduces proportionately. That is the menu remains "broken" regardless of the
presentation size of the site.
In Opera the entire site enlarges and reduces and the menu enlarges and
reduces proportionately. The menu doesn't break as the presentation size of
the site changes.
in Camino the menu enlarges and reduces but the size of the site stays
constant.
What's happening is that you made the menus 10.4em wide, so they grow &
shrink with the text size, but the width of the whole menu bar is 996px so
it doesn't change size. If 1 em is more than 95 px, the total width of
the menus will be more than the width of the menu bar, so it wraps.
using the CSS Menu option in Freeway Pro I chose the 996 pixel width for the
menus as it was evenly divisible by six, the number of individual menus. The
individual menu width of 10.4 em was arrived at by trial and error.
You can make the menu bar 62.4em wide so it grows & shrinks with the text
size and keeps it all on one line, but that will cause other layout
issues, and the user may have to scroll sideways to see the whole menu bar.
I'm not sure that I have the option within Freeway of setting the full width
of the menu other than in pixels.
Or you can make the menus 166px wide so the total width won't exceed
996px, but then some of the menus may wrap if their text is more than
166px wide.
Or you can find a way to set the text size in your menu bar so that the
user can't make it bigger, but that would be unfriendly to people with
poor eyesight.
Or you can accept the fact that the menu bar may get broken into two or
three lines, and figure out how to make the page look okay when that
happens.
I'll be talking with a person from Freeway later today and perhaps some
suggestions will be offered. I'll report back.
Many thanks for taking the time to comment.
--
James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@xxxxxx
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