Re: The Battle of the Browsers

In article <0001HW.C198A565004C8A34B019F94F@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >> Am I missing something?
> > 
> > Perhaps the satisfaction of having no less and no more code than 
> > is needed? 
> > 
> > Of not unnecessarily using up the world's energy. 
> > 
> > Of the multiplication factor of that 3% calculated from the 
> > number of "first" (uncached) hits to your site... 
> > 
> > That is enough to be chewing on for now. Your site is fine, don't 
> > worry too much. Just some things to consider in the future.
> 
> I made a minor adjustment in my site via Freeway, the adjustment being
made 
> at the suggestion of a friend, and the result was a two-thirds reduction
in 
> the code for the index.html page. This change moved things from table
based 
> to CSS based.

Your code is better still!. You can reduce it much further, even 
be rid of the absolute positioning and let the thumbs naturally 
find their place according to the size of the users window (think 
of text, how it can be allowed to wrap). 

Few people like to scroll horizontally, if you want to make it 
easy for people on smaller screens you may need to rethink the 
positioning or simply let things float more and be more naturally 
resizable. Some people use PDAs and mobiles these days.

You are still thinking in terms of a table layout although you 
have dispensed with the table element in the code, you have 
basically transferred the idea to absolute positioning mode. 

By not dictating 4 pics per line, you could _also_ assist people 
with big screens where so much space is wasted and necessitating 
vertical scrolling. On one of my screens, I could happily 
accommodate up to 8 of your thumbnails per line.

Now you cannot easily do this with tabular type layout. You need 
to loosen up the bones for a solution. Here is a snippet of some 
trials of mine to show you the sort of things you can do, I have 
resized the pics to your Ansel Adams thumb sizes (not cold 
mountains but warm hearted throbbing pictures of me in various 
guises). Take a peek at the code. Don't use the arrow, only the 
browser back button should you be interested in seeing the 
"pretend" enlargements and want to get back to the thumbs. I have 
put in a slightly naughty facility that is _commented out_ in the 
html but which can be activated (just remove the "!--" and "--" 
from the "<!--" and "-->") to allow a centering of the whole 
show, namely a table to hold all and it is centred according to 
how many pics the browser window allows, a sort of shrink fit 
thing that is well sup****ted by all browsers). You are welcome to 
play about with it:


http://tinyurl.com/yfyc7k


But, no need to worry too much, you have done well.. It is all a 
question of how interested you are in all this stuff. You will 
not be truly liberated till you throw off the Free****t and get 
the free TextWrangler.

Good luck.

-- 
dorayme