Hello, my username is ThirdQED. It has been about a year since I last visit this site. Anyhow, as I was fixing my profile layout, I run into a few problems:
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Problem #1: Long links breaks my column layout:
--IE doesn't support Overflow.
**Temporary Fix: Overflow replaced with word-wrap.
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Problem #2: Major web browsers' differences in calculating widths:
--IE calculate everything from margins to padding into the total of a property.
--Other major browsers calculate the width of div boxes by taking the width property value PLUS margins, padding and borders.
**Temporary Fix: Fixed by applying div within div.
Meaning I applied something like this example (sorry if the code fails to show up):
CSS:
.thrColFixHdr #upperbar {
font: 75% Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
float: right;
width: 760px;
background: ;
margin: 0px 0px 10px 5px;
color: ;
}
.thrColFixHdr #upperbarin {
padding: 15px 10px 15px 20px;
}
Apply:
About Me
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Of course both are just temporary fixes for now. Do you know of a better way to fix these problems? If you do, please do teach me. I've been trying to look for alternative fixes but not much luck :-( Also, the fixes don't have to be compatible with IE6 and FF2 or below. I am looking at anything that works with IE 7+, FF 3+, Safari 4+, and Chrome 4+.
Thanks in advanced, and my profile URL is http://www.advicenators.com/column.php?u=ThirdQED .
I wish all web browsers just use a standard rule :-)
Yeah, web development sucks. I now try to avoid it as much as possible since it frustrates me so much.
I used conditional comments on my column to fix IE's nonsense. You have to use non-standards-compliant "" tags, but the stuff that Advicenators adds gives you no hope of ever being compliant, anyway.
A disturbingly-high percentage of Advicenators users use IE6, so I'd try to support that if possible.
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Well, at least you are in the computer science field, meaning you still run into it more often. I am in the medical field--hardly have anything to do with web development. I can already see myself falling behind :-(
Thanks for the advice, though. And as of now, my column appears fine in all recent versions of IE (from 5 to 8) when I use IETester http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage . I will try to keep it this way.
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