Done and Done
Mark
Mar 25th 2006
Vanilla, Development
After a long few weeks of work, the new xhtml / css is up and ready for testing at
The Vanilla Development Forum. If you were a member of the Lussumo Community on or before March 25th, you probably already have an account there, so feel free to come on in.
Once there, be sure to
read the rules. The most important rule being:
No Whining. I want (and I know you want) Vanilla 1 to be finished as soon as possible, so let's be productive!
Finally, please keep all discussions about bugs you've found and possible solutions in the Vanilla Development forum. There is no need to clutter the community forum with these issues.
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Jump to LatestKeep up the goodwork !
Sorry anyway.
It's just that I already know of a lot of the glitches - I was hoping some people more well versed in the ways and woes of css and xhtml could help me out with this.
That's the whole point of "open source", isn't it?
I know it sucks for those out there who RSSize everything ... but what can you do when you only have so much time on your hands?
I'd post this on your dev forum, but I don't have an account. I'd set one up, but I don't know if I'd contribute much.
Right, so I noticed the dev forum has an XML declaration in the markup (first line). Just wanted to point out that IE doesn't like this. It will throw the browser into quirks mode, and you'll get uneven results when styling for IE/'Fox.
See: http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch.html
Thanks for the tip - I tried removing it from the source just to see what would happen with IE and it totally screwed up the entire site. Everything in the site appears below the panel if you remove that line.
I really wish some css guru would just come in here and sort this crap out. This is not my area of expertise.
Maybe I will set up that account :)
You'll have to float the #Discussions element to fix that IE bug:
#Discussions {
float: left;
width: 100%;
}
I know it *seems* like removed the XML declaration screws up the site, but It's actually the other way around. The bugs that are now exposed were always there, but IE was rendering in Quirks Mode before. It was figuring out its own way to display data. It covered up the bug ok, but it renders your layout the way it wants, not the way you want.
I'm fixing the bug, now...
1. xml declaration removed and ie fix implemented (Thanks!)
2. registration process fixed and opened up (no admin approval required for vanilladev site).