Comments on: My Lambeth book delivery has arrived

By: PeterD

PeterD — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:54:43 +0000

It looks ok on my BlackBerry, once I have scrolled down about two miles past the menus. Ah, the problems of a really
tiny screen.

By: Phelim McIntyre

Phelim McIntyre — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:40:46 +0000

Doesn’t IE stand for Internet Exploder? Am going to go to Lambeth Marketplace so I can say got my book at Lambeth.

By: Phillip Fayers

Phillip Fayers — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:29:23 +0000

Would it be an idea to scale the images? I’ve had reasonable success using the details at: http://rjohara.net/server/css-figures-captions/

By: Phil Groom

Phil Groom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:45:54 +0000

Hey Anne – email me bookshop@lst.ac.uk and I’ll post a copy out to you printed paper rate: shouldn’t be too expensive. We accept payment by PayPal.

10% discount for all Cartoon Blog readers! Just say you read it here to qualify. P&P at whatever 1st Class Post (or Printed Paper Rate for overseas) works out at.

Dave: no offence taken if you’d prefer not to let such a blatantly touting-for-business comment stand

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:45:15 +0000

Well, I am on the same side of the Pond as you–in Paris, where I am actually working for the next few days. Won’t even get a glimpse of England. Congratulations on the book–will you let us know how to buy it in the US?

By: Phil Groom

Phil Groom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:32:45 +0000

To Tim I say: foobar! A responsible web designer will do everything in his or her power to wean people off MSIE. It’s a question of education, really: MSIE simply isn’t standards compliant. Why should anyone have to spend hours finding workarounds for Microsoft’s bugs? I’ll resist the temptation to say more on this topic…

Dave: it looks fine in Safari

By: PK

PK — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:15:44 +0000

Looks very cool indeed. Nice one Dave.

Out of interest though does every copy come attached with a cat bookmark or is that just the first few?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:34:58 +0000

RE the design: have used John’s idea of overflow: hidden – thanks John. It seems to have made it better.

Tim: Thank you – What you are suggesting is what I have tried to do in the past, but I think because I am starting with someone elses work and modifying it I have never been able to make it work – despite having spent a lot of time on it (probably days if you added it all up). The two sidebars I want fixed width, the middle column variable depending on the width of the images. In the longer run I think I need to try again to do what you are suggesting.

Aaron – I prefer not to have % sizes of images as it does funny things in some browsers.

This is, by the way, part of a cunning plan to be able to sent photo blog posts from my phone at Lambeth. I could use the small size Flickr pictures (as in my June 26 post), but it seems a shame to have them that small.

Ferijen – thank you. It was rather exciting. I am a fortunate person.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:04 +0000

Dave, for multi-column layouts I usually float each column using “float:left”. I declare the content for each column in turn, left to right, and they sit to the right of each other. The total width is then dictated by the width setting of each column, which you could make a percentage if you want to force the full width. I use a pixel width and design for 760 pixels wide so that it fits on an 800×600 display.

To commenters 3 and 4 I say: a responsible Web designer designs *first* for the majority, i.e. Internet Explorer users, and *then* for other browsers, including Firefox. With 80% of the market, you can’t afford to treat IE with contempt! The good news is that IE5 usage has dropped below 1% so that version can be safely ignored, but I’d always aim for a site to display flawlessly in IE 6/7 and Firefox 2/3.

By: Aaron Orear

Aaron Orear — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:29:16 +0000

Perhaps not the best solution, but you could try using a percentage for the image width in the img tag. width=”50%”, for instance.

That is, of course, if you’re writing the tag itself and not using some other image insert code.