Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:17:53 +0900
Subject: Re: Idea for a new index page
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From: Michael Glaesemann <glaesema@myrealbox.com>
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Erg. The past week has been frought with email ineptness on my part. If=20
a variation on this comes through, please forgive.

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 07:42 AM, Andreas Grabm=FCller wrote:
> Michael, is it possible to choose the layout based on the browser size=20
> using XHTML/CSS or Javascript? So any user with 1024x768 sees=20
> test3.htm but any user with a lower resolution sees test4.htm? It's=20
> just the two boxes to change...

It's definitely possible to switch style sheets using JavaScript and=20
straightforward XHTML and CSS. The most common usage of this I've seen=20
is for providing serif and sans-serif versions. As for detecting=20
browser size, nothing I know of in XHTML or CSS would prevent you from=20
doing this, but as far as I know they're not going to do it for you.

However, I'm wondering whether or not this is necessary. From what I=20
gather, you're worried about the page being too wide because the Latest=20
News and Upcoming Events boxes are fixed width. When I first saw the=20
text*.htm examples, I put together similar structures on my local=20
machine. They resize very nicely, side by side, text reflowing and=20
preserving hanging indents on the lists, using &middot as bullets, down=20
to a width of about 850px. After that, you start losing the right=20
sidebar. And that might not be a hard limit. I haven't really tweaked=20
it much.

I'd like to be able to show these examples, but I don't have a host.=20
Should I upload them to CVS? (Am I even able to? Do I require a GBorg=20
membership?)

Michael