[Mailman-Developers] Face lift for User Interface

[Christopher Petrilli]

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 11:58:05AM -0400, Dan Delaney wrote:
> From:  Christopher Petrilli
> > Well, colors work fine across all browsers that I've been able to test
> > with.  More advanced features aren't consistent, but some things that
> > I've not had any real problems with:
> > 	* Colors
> 
> Well, everything works great in these new CSS mockups except for one thing.
> NETSCRAPE DOESN'T SET THE COLORS FOR THE BODY TAG! Yes. I'm using Netscrape
> 4.5 and when I specify a style sheet like "BODY { background-color: #000000;
> color: #FFFFFF }", Netscrape doesn't set the page background to black and
> text to white. I don't know whether or not MSIE does because my copy of
> MSIE5 bombs as soon as it is launched (it's running on WinNT, what do you
> expect! :-), so could someone please check it out (CSS mockup 3 is the one
> that should have a black background for the page) with MSIE (versions 3, 4,
> and 5) and let me know what it does?

Well, I forgot about this, IE behaves properly in this case... but
that's definately a bummer... I just set the body tag manually.

> Anyway, go check out the new CSS mockups at www.Dionysia.org/temp/mailman/
> and let me know what you think.

Looks good, and loads faster for me.

> > 	* Font size, especially relative (never use absolute)
> 
> I always specify type size in ems, which is the ideal relative type size
> measurment unit.

Um, this breaks on *NIX because tehy have rather antiquated ideas about
fonts.  I get this constantly from Linux people "whine whine, your fonts
are too small"... I have to set them to like 18pt before they quit
whining, so I just quitsetting ANYTHING in absolute.  Um, setting font
size in "ems" is a riot, BTW, since the definition of an em depends on
the font you're in, no? :-)  Try using percentages.  Spacing is defined
in ems, not fonts.

Chris
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