Re: design update

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 19:07, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> It actually looks pretty good on at least MSIE 6. There are a few buglets, 
> though, that you may or may not want to take care of:

Excellent.  That's better than it being screwed up. ;)

> 1) The icons use transparent PNGs, which IE [wrecks]

Fixed; dropped back to jpg instead (was a few k smaller) - although
there is a very obnoxious fix for it.  (Some js property.)

> 2) The section backgrounds don't change color in MSIE. Because such behavior 
> isn't expected and doesn't really add much to the viewing experience, IMO 
> this isn't really a bug.

Not a bug.  People using good browsers simply get a nicer experience.

> 3) WRT the link bar on the right, the list items are indented too far to the 
> right. Looks a smide awkward, but not too bad.

I think I've fixed this, but can't verify it this end.

> 4) The "Gnome Office 1.0 released!" box extends all the way to the right 
> link bar, instead of having a few pixel gap like it does in Firefox. Doesn't 
> look bad, but if could look a little bit better.

Gah!  This is a bit of an issue and I'm struggling to work out which is
not working logically here, gecko or IE.  Interestingly, I think it
might be gecko.  Or both.  Or me.  Probably me. ;)
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