Re: Inclusion of "#sidebar {position: fixed;}" in "default.css"?



On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 23:42, Alexander Winston wrote:
> As you all may or may not have noticed, I recently added "#sidebar
> {position: fixed;}" to http://developer.gnome.org/developer.css. This
> creates an effect that is not unlike a Post-It Note full of helpful
> navigation hints located in the upper-right portion of the screen. It
> looks fantastic in user agents that support it, but still looks fine
> (like it would with "#sidebar {position: absolute;}") in user agents
> that, unfortunately for them, do not. So my question is this: Are there
> any objections to including this neat styling trick in the default.css
> style sheet?

It stops the sidebar being scrollable, and it's really quite annoying
since the webpage starts acting unlike any other.

Nice idea, but please no!

-- 
Andrew Sobala <as583 cam ac uk>

Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between
Windsor and Staines, on the fifteenth day of June in the seventeenth
year of our reign.

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