RE: New design

> Dear Schematicians,
>
> At
>
>   http://schematics.sf.net/new/schematics.html
>
> is a simple design I've knocked up.   I've only looked
> at it in IE 5.  It probably looks 'orrible in Mozilla.
>  Please comment, or better yet, design your own
> replacements for our crumby website.  Maybe we can
> have a little competition to redesign the site.  My
> design is pure HTML + CSS.  It would probably be
> enhanced by a few judicious graphics.  I just don't
> have access to a graphics program at the moment.

I checked this on both my 1600x1200 W2K desktop and my 1024x768 Debian
laptop, with Mozilla 1.5, Firebird 0.7, and IE6 (latter only on Windows).
The OS & screen made no difference to layout, but the browser version sure
did.

There were glitches in all environments, including IE6.  Major ones:

Mozilla & Firebird:

* Heading reads "sclemati", with no "cs".  (Are the Sclemati like the
Illuminati, but for Scleme?)  Neither browser picked up the specified font,
"Arial Rounded MT Bold", even though IE does - some alternative fonts would
probably help.  BTW, to get the lambda, I believe you can use the entity
name: λ

* The yellow underline under 'sclemati' doesn't appear: I believe these
browsers don't understand "border-bottom: 2 solid #f0b005;"  I think it's
supposed to be "border-bottom: #f0b005 solid 2;" but I can't swear to it.

* The Contact/Download/Project links have underlines that appear way down
beneath them, in the blue box. I think that's caused by the 2em padding.


IE6:

* I see the lambda in "sc\ematics", but something funky is happening with
the Contact/Download/Project headings: Contact is almost halfway across the
page, and Projects is wrapped onto the next line.  It doesn't matter how big
I make the browser window.  I haven't tried to diagnose this.  (On
Mozilla/Firebird, the headings are skewed toward the right, but don't wrap.)

IE5 is probably one of the worst browsers to use as a test - either IE 5.5
or 6.0 would be better.  IE 5 was broken in many ways, in some ways worse
than IE4, and it's CSS support was incomplete.  I'm guessing IE5 is just
ignoring some of the stylesheet instructions, which makes the page appear
OK, whereas newer browsers faithfully insert 2em gaps between headings and
their underlines...  :)

Anton



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