Re: php.net layout with CSS-P

Looks good in Firebird here and in general I like the concept of going with a clean XHTML/CSS approach. -Rasmus On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > Hi! > > Following on my previous trys to create a CSS-P version of the PHP.net > footer, I have gone farther, and done the header too. I was able to test > it in Mozilla 1.3 [Win and Linux], IE6, Opera 7.11 [Win], Konqueror and > Galleon. Every browser I tested seems to display the old table based > design [at the top] and the new CSS-P based design [at the bottom] 99% > identically. This means a 1-2 pixel difference in positioning at some > places, not critical. > > In the CSS for the new HTML code I needed to use some tricks regarding > font sizes, as IE does not inherit font sizes properly. Most of the work > was done to make the layout work with IE (while it was already working > perfectly in Mozilla and Konqueror). > > I expect this to work in Safari, as it uses the khtml rendering engine > (which is the base of Konqueror too). I was unable to test with older IE > versions. > > I have prepared a framset so you can easily test the two versions. The > upper one is the current table based layout (with current style sheet). > The one at the bottom is the new CSS-P based one. > > Advantages of this new version include: > > - very clean true XHTML code > - 1Kb less HTML markup then the old code > - enables us to easily provide a print version style sheet, > so there won't be a need to download pages again with printer > friendly HTML generated around them > > Given that the CSS will be cached on the users machine, this takes off > 1Kbtye data of every page request, additionaly using this kind of CSS > takes of the burden of generating separate pages for print and online > viewing from the server. > > See online: http://goba.hu/phpnet/ > > Opinions are welcome! > > Goba >