by
Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday September 06 2005, @11:55AM
(#6244)
Works fine in Opera. The curvies and wavies appear better too than they do on slashdot.
However, the "View->Styles->Slashdot" option does not stay selected between pages. I'm not sure if that's just plain how it works, or something is not right somewhere.
Looks great, to me. Just make it all validate properly, and you're golden.
Right clicking in the page, and selecting "Validate" however, on the main slashcode page does result in at least 8 validation errors.
Now, I haven't explored the depths of the HTML vs. the CSS, and since I'm not getting paid to, I'm probably not going to sit here and try and learn all the nuances, but the CSS looks far more complex than it might need to be.
I don't see anything in the specification [w3.org] about persistance of selection. Arguably, Opera is doing the Right Thing, pedantically, by considering each page a completely seperate document and honouring that page's preferred stylesheet.
Not that I dispute that this behaviour is stupid when it comes to usability. Like many W3C standards, the practical side has been ill thought out.
Firefox behaves the same, you can use javascript "onunload" to find which stylesheet they have selected by looping the tags and find which isn't disabled then store it in a cookie. But really this should be handled by the browser not the website.
Does Not work in older versions of Opera, like Opera 5. On the front page, the text is too small with no pixles almost entirely font smoothed. That includes the DIV.details by Anonymous Coward section. The articles are separated by a huge vertical gap I suspect due to the use of height:100%. Base.css, Slashcode.css, slashdot.css all contain {height: 100%;} Removing them fixes the problem.
Also, it would be nice if the navigation was at the bottom of the page for text readers and those, like myself, with user st
Opera (Score:0)
However, the "View->Styles->Slashdot" option does not stay selected between pages. I'm not sure if that's just plain how it works, or something is not right somewhere.
Looks great, to me. Just make it all validate properly, and you're golden.
Re:Opera (Score:0)
Re:Opera (Score:0)
That's how it's supposed to work, AFAIK. (Score:0)
Not that I dispute that this behaviour is stupid when it comes to usability. Like many W3C standards, the practical side has been ill thought out.
Re:Opera (Score:0)
Re:Opera 5 Doesn't Work! (Score:0)
On the front page, the text is too small with no pixles almost entirely font smoothed.
That includes the DIV.details by Anonymous Coward section.
The articles are separated by a huge vertical gap I suspect due to the use of height:100%. Base.css, Slashcode.css, slashdot.css all contain {height: 100%;} Removing them fixes the problem.
Also, it would be nice if the navigation was at the bottom of the page for text readers and those, like myself, with user st