Re: Idea for a new index page

From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>
Date: Tue Nov 11, 2003  12:37:01 PM Asia/Tokyo
To: <webmaster@letzplay.de>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Idea for a new index page

Erg. The past week has been frought with email ineptness on my part. If
a variation on this comes through, please forgive.

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 07:42 AM, Andreas Grabmüller wrote:
> Michael, is it possible to choose the layout based on the browser size
> using XHTML/CSS or Javascript? So any user with 1024x768 sees
> test3.htm but any user with a lower resolution sees test4.htm? It's
> just the two boxes to change...

It's definitely possible to switch style sheets using JavaScript and
straightforward XHTML and CSS. The most common usage of this I've seen
is for providing serif and sans-serif versions. As for detecting
browser size, nothing I know of in XHTML or CSS would prevent you from
doing this, but as far as I know they're not going to do it for you.

However, I'm wondering whether or not this is necessary. From what I
gather, you're worried about the page being too wide because the Latest
News and Upcoming Events boxes are fixed width. When I first saw the
text*.htm examples, I put together similar structures on my local
machine. They resize very nicely, side by side, text reflowing and
preserving hanging indents on the lists, using · as bullets, down
to a width of about 850px. After that, you start losing the right
sidebar. And that might not be a hard limit. I haven't really tweaked
it much.

I'd like to be able to show these examples, but I don't have a host.
Should I upload them to CVS? (Am I even able to? Do I require a GBorg
membership?)

Michael