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Re: [trinity-devel] new website - patches

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:53:24 -0500
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> On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:23:17 -0400
> Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote:
>
>> Even if you don't adopt anything new, you could reduce the amount of
>> bandwidth by quite a bit by not writing valign=TOP width=50% and using
>> css
>> to accomplish the same
>
> Okay, I've had a chance to take a look at this now, and two sets of
> fixes are required:
>
>
> In the HTML page:
>
> -Change the table element to <TABLE CLASS="patchtable">
>
> -Change the header row to use <TH> elements rather than going to the
> trouble of <TD><B>
>
> -Remove all the VALIGN=TOP notations.
>
> -While it has nothing to do with the table styles, the <s at the beginning
> of
> the email addresses really should be encoded as < .  Currently, the
> W3C's validator detects more than 200 errors on this page, nearly all
> of them due to this.
>
>
> To the stylesheet, add the following:
>
> /*patches table*/
> .patchtable TR TD {vertical-align:top}
> .patchtable TR TH {text-align:left;
>                     font-weight:bold;
>                     vertical-align:top}
> .patchtable {width:100%;}
>
> If you want to put the 50% width constraint for the last cell back in,
> also
> add the line:
>
>  .patchtable TR TD:last-child {width:50%;}
>
> Surprisingly, even Konqueror understands this selector, despite it
> technically
> being a CSS3 construct.
>
>
> This is not sufficient to make the table fit correctly on small screens at
> a sane
> font size--for that, you need to cut down those date columns, as I
> mentioned
> before.  It's also much grumpier about reducing correctly with the new,
> white-border-less design than it was with the original.
>
> I'm going to look at the Bugzilla skin now.
>
> E. Liddell

Thanks for the tips; page updated and date columns reworked.

Tim
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