Comments on: HTML – a sorry excuse for display markup

By: Rob Kischuk

Rob Kischuk — Wed, 26 May 2004 12:28:39 +0000

IFrames have the same issue as standard frames – the browser makes a second set of requests when if finds the iFrame – that request has none of the original request context, including the tiles data needed to insert the content and any data you may have been passing to your content area.

By: Eric Roberts

Eric Roberts — Wed, 26 May 2004 12:15:36 +0000

have you tried using IFrames? I don’t know if mobile devices support them yet but i’d be willing to be they’re coming soon.

By: Rob Kischuk

Rob Kischuk — Wed, 26 May 2004 11:58:46 +0000

About that colinux site – it’s the right idea, but a spotty implementation. In IE6, the formatting is completely hosed – a massive blank space to the left, and the navigation shows up in the same column as the content.

In FireFox, it looks better, but the scrollbar for the content area actually extends under the header! When I shrink the window size, a bottom scrollbar appears that actually lets me slide the content under the navigation pane.

Any other suggestions?

By: No one

No one — Wed, 26 May 2004 11:58:40 +0000

HTML was never designed to do stuff like that. It’s amazing that you can make it do that. Using HTML for stuff like that is using a GUI Windowing system as an operating system….

By: skanga

skanga — Wed, 26 May 2004 11:48:32 +0000

Here is an example of what you want to do:

http://www.colinux.org/wiki/index.php/coLinuxNetworking

By: Rob Kischuk

Rob Kischuk — Wed, 26 May 2004 11:31:22 +0000

Is the fixed width header a necessity? The resizable header is a necessary part of the site design.

By: Jason Barker

Jason Barker — Wed, 26 May 2004 11:25:55 +0000

Yes you can.
Just set the body content height to be 100%, and the header and footer to have fixed width and put it at the top and bottom.

Have a read http://www.google.com/search?q=tableless+css&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8