[Rt-devel] RT CSS Overhaul (ATTENTION W3M AND IE USERS)]

Thu Oct 7 07:02:53 EDT 2004

[Chris, how does this seem to you?]

I've spoken to our web accessibility expert and he has the following
comments:

> Gecko: Lose the position: fixed; stuff. It's still a nightmare to
> use. Use position: absolute; instead. (Will also better work in IE)
> 
> Make it work at reasonable resolutions - I'm running at 831px wide
> and it doesn't fit.
> 
> Get rid of the font sizes set in px - they won't rescale in IE, and
> not particularly well in anything else. Use caution with font sizes
> <100% (80% is likely to be unreadable in some situations, 90%
> should be okay but not for paragraphs of text)
> 
> Opera: The horizontal scrolling doesn't happen, the stuff that
> would generate a horizontal scrollbar just goes off the right of
> the screen.  (Opera is available for Linux for testing)
> 
> IE6/Win: I can't see the login box. This suggests that the rest of
> the stylesheet will be badly messed up too. (After using the
> keyboard navigation and a bit of guesswork, managed to log in
> anyway. The top half of the layout is in pieces, the main area and
> footer is okay but is also about a screen height down the page...
>
> (A single windows box isn't that expensive for testing and can have
> IE 5, 5.5 and 6 co-installed on it. Trying to debug IE CSS layout
> via second-hand reports of what looks wrong is near-impossible and
> will take weeks.)
> 
> IE 5 on the Mac is likely to have similar problems due to position:
> fixed.
> 
> W3M/Lynx: Page fails to display. Problem caused by <!--[if lt IE
> 7]> in the <HEAD>, which Lynx, and indeed anything else (other than
> IE), will interpret as an unclosed comment. I don't know why
> Gecko/KHTML *don't* interpret this as an unclosed comment, probably
> a bug in their parsers. 
>
> Anything: The close buttons on the various bits of the homepage are
> Javascript dependent. Ideally they should do something server-side
> to hide those bits, but you should use JS to write the close buttons
> out so that non-JS browsers don't see them.

-- 
Andrew Stribblehill
Systems programmer, IT Service