Joshua Kaufman Goes Liquid!
In hopes that it would fix the strange behavior in IE5 on the Mac and also to make this site more accessible, I’ve modified the CSS on this site (CSS Viewer by Liorean) to liquify the right column. If all went well, the right content should resize as you resize your browser. My UX colleague, Diego Lafuente, has already informed me that these changes haven’t done squat for IE5 on OSX. (It looks fine in IE5+ and Netscape 6 on PC and Netscape 6 on the Mac.) So if anyone knows what’s up with IE5 on the Mac, I’d love to also know. While we’re talking about buggy browsers, IE6 is doing this strange thing with the bottom scrollbar. Whenever the browser is resized, the bottom scrollbar flashes on and off. Once again, it works perfectly in Netscape 6. I’d never thought I would say this again but… why can’t IE just work like Netscape? Thoughts or comments on the liquid design? Please comment below.
Update Diego Lafuente came to the rescue and fixed my CSS so all should be well for IE Mac folk. Thanks Diego!
Comments
Thanks Brad. I haven’t used the min/max-width attributes, but I’ve heard they’re very buggy. Check out the Rich In Style test suite to test them on your browser.
Joshua on 4 Apr 02
Thanks for the link!
If you find any bugs in it or want to see some new feature, mail me about it.
// Liorean
Liorean on 4 Apr 02
Nice work. The site looks great on my Mac.
vanderwal on 4 Apr 02
I dig it!
Interestingly enough (or maybe not), I’ve been toying with the idea of going static-width on brad lauster (dot com). Really, what I’d like to do is use the max-width attributes in CSS to limit the width, but the max- attributes as still SO buggy.
Have you played with them? Had any luck?
Brad Lauster on 4 Apr 02