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What does my site look like in Mac OS Safari

Steve Gibons

2006-03-14, 10:17 pm

A friend I sent to the site reported that the formatting broke down when
he changed the text size. This is not a problem in IE6, IE5 (Mac), FF or
Opera.

http://www.stevegibons.com

Carolyn Marenger

2006-03-14, 10:17 pm

Steve Gibons wrote:

> A friend I sent to the site reported that the formatting broke down when
> he changed the text size. This is not a problem in IE6, IE5 (Mac), FF or
> Opera.
>
> http://www.stevegibons.com

I just checked, and when I change the font size, there are problems.

It appears that your layout size is determined by the fonts. In general
this is good, and I like it. However since you have a static image in the
background - the photo, it is causing a glitch.

When the font size is increased, everything except the photogrows
accordingly. This includes the white border around the picture, that looks
like a frame. The photo no longer fills the frame. Any text that appears
in the frame covers the photo flows onto the background grey.

When the font size is reduced, everything except the photo shrinks
accordingly. The frame now appears behind the photo and the lower menu
moves onto the picture, in some cases being white menu on white table
cloth. Any text that appears in the frame covers only the upper left
corner of the photo.

This happens in both Konqueror 3.3.2 and Firefox 1.0.2.

Carolyn
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Steve Gibons

2006-03-14, 10:17 pm

Carolyn Marenger wrote:
> Steve Gibons wrote:
>
>
> I just checked, and when I change the font size, there are problems.
>
> It appears that your layout size is determined by the fonts. In general
> this is good, and I like it. However since you have a static image in the
> background - the photo, it is causing a glitch.

Thanks, Carolyn

I found a few errors resulting from uncommented lines I thought I had
commented, when I moved the site files to the home directory. I think I
have it fixed now, except for one thing. You said that the my 1 point
white frame actually grows. That's weird. The image is now a background
image centered and repeated. I like the effect, though it certainly
wouldn't work for every image. Anyway , if you could have another look
I'd sure appreciate it.

Carolyn Marenger

2006-03-15, 3:15 am

Steve Gibons wrote:

> Carolyn Marenger wrote:
>
> Thanks, Carolyn
>
> I found a few errors resulting from uncommented lines I thought I had
> commented, when I moved the site files to the home directory. I think I
> have it fixed now, except for one thing. You said that the my 1 point
> white frame actually grows. That's weird. The image is now a background
> image centered and repeated. I like the effect, though it certainly
> wouldn't work for every image. Anyway , if you could have another look
> I'd sure appreciate it.

Ohh, so much nicer! That works well. The image now sticks with the frame
and it all sizes up and down with the fonts. Good work!

Carolyn
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kchayka

2006-03-15, 10:17 pm

Carolyn Marenger wrote:
> Steve Gibons wrote:
>
>
> That works well.

Except for the horizontal scrolling, you mean... ;)

> The image now sticks with the frame
> and it all sizes up and down with the fonts.

Not sure what you mean by "sticks with the frame". The background image
appears to be initially centered within its container, but it repeats.
The edges of the photo don't align like a proper tiling background
would. Where the left and right edges of the photo meet (at the
tablecloth) looks kinda broken to me. I don't find it especially
attractive. :-\

Maybe you don't notice it if you use a smallish text size by default.
Zoom text in Firefox/mozilla up a couple notches and you might see what
I see by default.

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Steve Gibons

2006-03-16, 6:20 pm

kchayka wrote:
> Carolyn Marenger wrote:
>
> Except for the horizontal scrolling, you mean... ;)
>
>
> Not sure what you mean by "sticks with the frame". The background image
> appears to be initially centered within its container, but it repeats.
> The edges of the photo don't align like a proper tiling background
> would. Where the left and right edges of the photo meet (at the
> tablecloth) looks kinda broken to me. I don't find it especially
> attractive. :-\
>
> Maybe you don't notice it if you use a smallish text size by default.
> Zoom text in Firefox/mozilla up a couple notches and you might see what
> I see by default.
>

that's interesting. To some folks it's broken, some think it's cool. and
some don't actually notice it's tiled, and think the photo is growing
and shrinking, which would be a nice trick, except in Opera.

So far non-web-design people feedback has been from the second and third
category.

Making that photo tile properly seems like a nice project. Anybody here
have some idea how to go about it?

steve

Carolyn Marenger

2006-03-17, 6:18 pm

>> Not sure what you mean by "sticks with the frame". The background image
> that's interesting. To some folks it's broken, some think it's cool. and
> some don't actually notice it's tiled, and think the photo is growing
> and shrinking, which would be a nice trick, except in Opera.

I am in the category of, it works well with that photo. It took a moment to
notice that it was tiled. In my mind that means the photo is a fairly good
one for tiling. If the photo had a blue sky, green grass, and a red fire
truck on the right hand side - the tiling effect would be glaring and
inappropriate.

On my screen, the initial sizing came up with an untiled image. When I
shrunk the font size, the image zoomed in, effectively cropping the photo.
When I zoomed out, it tiled the photo. Since the photo tiled well, it
wasn't immediately apparent to me. I did notice it in a couple of seconds,
but I felt it was ok.

Carolyn
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Steve Gibons

2006-03-17, 6:18 pm

Carolyn Marenger wrote:
> I am in the category of, it works well with that photo. It took a moment to
> notice that it was tiled. In my mind that means the photo is a fairly good
> one for tiling. If the photo had a blue sky, green grass, and a red fire
> truck on the right hand side - the tiling effect would be glaring and
> inappropriate.
>
> On my screen, the initial sizing came up with an untiled image. When I
> shrunk the font size, the image zoomed in, effectively cropping the photo.
> When I zoomed out, it tiled the photo. Since the photo tiled well, it
> wasn't immediately apparent to me. I did notice it in a couple of seconds,
> but I felt it was ok.
>
> Carolyn

Great, that's what I think. Anyway what's never going to happen is me
somehow photoshopping the image somehow so the edges match up.

Thanks Carolyn.

Steve