Heresy abounds!

[jere7my]

One down, two to go. The website for adfamiliares's heresy seminar is now online! If people with various browsers and settings and OSes would like to take a look and make sure that things work for them, particularly the sidebars in Requirements and the calendar shortcuts in Timetable, I'd sure appreciate it. And, of course, if you're curious about this fabulous class-you're-gonna-wish-you-could-take, there's loads of info to peer at.

Again I've pushed myself to learn a lot more CSS than I knew before, which made this a very satisfying (albeit sometimes frustrating) experience. I think the end result is kinda purty, and it does some complicated things without being showy about it.

The one (minor, cosmetic) dilemma I haven't solved: if you make the text bigger on the Requirements page, the second sidebar eventually sticks out beyond the foot of the center light-tan column. In technical terms, the sidebar is a div (of fixed width and absolute positioning) within the main body div, and there doesn't seem to be an overflow property that does what I want: make the containing div grow vertically as the sidebar extends beyond its bottom edge. I'm sure it must be possible, but I haven't twigged to it. Any ideas?

[Edit: the CSS is apparently fucked in IE6, which, of course, I can't see, since I only have access to Macs. Holy crap, I hate MS. Icon and mood edited to reflect, and I've taken the pages down.]

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

Looks quite good in Firefox on Debian. Also, that is a really pretty site!

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thank you! (And thanks for being a tester!)

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

Hm. Using IE6, it's unreadable--the sidebar covers half the text. The opening line, e.g., says "In this class, we will survey the controv". I get a sense of what you're trying for but it doesn't come out. And the links on the first page to the other pages only bring up a picture icon--they don't appear to be functioning links. Ditto for the other pages--the bar on the side just gets in the way.

Good luck with it!

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Aw, crap. It's impossible for me to test sites with IE6, because I have a Mac, and there is no IE6 for Mac. IE has 90% of the browser market, and yet it has the least compliant rendering out there.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Supposedly they're working on that with IE7. But it's still inexcusable that IE6 is so bad.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have Virtual PC pretty much entirely so I can test things on IE. (Incidentally, IE5 is pretty different on Mac and Windows, so even getting it to work on IE5 Mac is not a guarantee that it will work on IE5 Win). Frankly, the new Intel Macs will be really useful for web developers for that reason alone, though I probably won't be getting one for at least a couple of years.