Re: Validated HTML/CSS

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="digitect mindspring com">

> I think the sidebar-making tile is because there aren't any browsers that
> properly support z-index and PNG transparency.

[ Eh? ]

> msdn.microsoft.com uses an in-line style to accomplish the sidebar. It
> uses just a simple background color instead of a graphic, which I like.
> Lemme see if I can't eliminate our graphic, because the flexibility would
> be nice, as you say, and it would be a bit faster, too.

Cool.

> Yeah, I re-worked the original template so that the stripe is actually an
> element all its own. Whoever makes the background images won't have to
> worry about including it with the same image, which again, gives us some
> more flexibility.

Oh, very nice.

> Frankly, I always liked Joakim's first design better:
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/comp-joakimziegler-02a.htm 

Yeah, the colours are great on this one.

> I've been corralling many other images that (I think) are better
> possibilities, so I hope no one is in love with the green hillscape yet.

Heh. I hope you have a few, 'cos there should be a ton of variants
throughout the site. 8)

> Accept that browsers don't support it. (Check out
> http://entropymine.com/jason/testbed/pngtrans/ -- I'd be interested in
> knowing if anybody has a browser that tests perfectly here.)

Mozilla has supported this for ages, hasn't it? My nightly that reports
itself as being 0.9.4+ (Gecko/20010818) is perfect. I'll try it on IE6 later
today.

> > There's a bunch of great images I'd like to use for d.g.o on Garrett's
> > site.  He's waaay happy to have his images used, too. :)
> 
> Don't know Garrett or his web site. URL?

 -> http://linuxart.com/

Check out these images, which I thought would be way cool for d.g.o
(especially a 'dotplan' or 'road to GNOME 2.0' section):

  http://linuxart.com/photoview.phtml?sid=00oct19-desert&iid=pa191676
  http://linuxart.com/photoview.phtml?sid=00aug27-sunday_drive&iid=p8270321

They're good when we have to crop the interesting bits to the size of the
title bar, too.

Thanks Steve,

- Jeff

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