Re: Watercape - only the acute sighted should drink

"Mike & Krystyna Wooding" <mikeandkrystyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Steve wrote:
On 17/06/11 10:36, Mike & Krystyna Wooding wrote:
Steve wrote:
On 17/06/11 00:37, Dr Nick wrote:
Looking for information on the Audlem beer festival I found:
http://www.waterscape.com/features-and-articles/events/5501/audlem-beer-festival-on-the-shropshire-union-canal

Which tells you the dates (on Firefox and Opera, at least - I can't
run IE) if you reduce the text size so much that you can't read it.

Actually, it's weirder than that. As you zoom up and down the
dates appear and vanish - at least in some browsers.

Still, when they sack everybody and it's done by volunteers it
won't be much worse. At least they won't put<span> tags /inside/<h1>
tags.

No dates at all on my computer - even if I reduce it to a size and
ant could read.

JHere you are thenn, this is waht I get using IE and on a very slow
mobile connection, middle top of the page:

*************************************
Audlem beer festival on the Shropshire Union Canal27 August 2011 -
29 August 2011

Audlem
Cheshire
*************************************

Mike


On Firefox on my computer the date seems to be hidden under the blue
box and if I right click it I get "Search Google for 27 August..."


So just how much of our licence money did they waste paying a bunch of
school kids to put their website together?

or is it your browser?

If it doesn't work in Firefox and Opera it's much more likely to be a
bug in the page than a browser bug. Both Firefox and Opera have bugs,
and I've found examples of each in my programming. But for them both to
have the same one is astonishingly unlikely as they are engineered
separately from the ground up.

And this isn't that rare event.

It's because the H1 element is defined (in file "screen.css", line 331
onwards, to be precise) with a style of: bottom: -10px

That means (for these purposes), put the bottom of the element 10 pixels
lower than it would be normally.

Then the details are put in an element with the "address" class which is
inside an "event-details" which is inside a "main" where the margin,
border and padding are set to 0.

So any browser that reliably follows the instructions will put the
details right below (with no spacing) where the header ought to be, and
then put the header 10 pixels lower than where it ought to be. Thereby
putting it directly on top of the top 10 pixels of the details.

That's what the problem is. How your browser manages to show it is most
interesting. There do appear to be whole heaps of conditional CSS to
work round IE bugs. It might be that one of these has inadvertently
hidden the problem from the developers if they too use IE.
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