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Axonz 3.0 CSS Theme Released!

Authored by: matthewcox on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 07:07 am EST

The inital glance looks awsome! Congrats. And boy does that css look cleeeaaaan. Nice commenting too.

Now for the cautions and bugs. All clients tested were on W2K

MSIE 5.5
Right blocks aren't visible in 800x600 (see here).
Also notice that you can't scroll right

Mozilla FireBird 0.7
Have to scroll right in 800x600 (see here)
Also notice the white margin in the upper right if you scroll right

Netscape 4.79 (I'm not kidding. My clients' sites still get about 4% of their business from netscape 4.x users) Also many linux users are still using 4.x if that's an audience you're trying to attract

Version 3.0 axonz didn't do so well (see here)
But Version 2.1 axonz did fairly well even in 800x600 (see here only 1024x768 shown)
Notice the broken story images though.

The MSIE and Mozilla issues seem to be width related. Remember that the scroll bar takes up some of the 800. I usually choose a width of 760 if I want to ensure no right scrolling.

Overall, this is great! Thanks for your hard work and contribution. -Matthew

Axonz 3.0 CSS Theme Released!

Authored by: wooge on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 09:54 am EST

WOW!... darnit...
...the only problem with CSS positioning... it's 'new'.

Thanks very much for the screenshots... i think i have my work cut
out for me for the next release...

I wonder if i should just scrap the CSSp and go back to tables?

Cheers,
-wOOge

Axonz 3.0 CSS Theme Released!

Authored by: g3cko on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 12:17 pm EST

naw... people can use "old' themes if they wanna run a site for netscape old versions...

don't let people who live at www.oldversion.com run your life!
keep up the wicked awesome work!!

Theo

Re:Don't you dare scrap

Authored by: matthewcox on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 01:12 pm EST

scrap? heck no. Your 3.0 makes the perfect foundation for anyone who wants to create a w3 validating page. I myself have spent hours trying to "clean up" the supposed "clean" theme. Sounds like you can relate to that. Just think how easy it will be for future geekers to go in and modify your template. If they want to start from scratch, they can just unlink the css and start adding....no deletions or cleaning necessary. Anyways, I'm rambling. Don't scrap anything.

As far as those old browsers and small monitors go, I've been looking at the geek code with this problem in mind. lib-common.php has a section that evaluates which theme to use. It seems like it would not be too difficult to add a few more conditions that evaluate the environment variable "$HTTP_USER_AGENT" against a table of valid themes per agent and a priority sort in case the default won't work and there is more than one valid alternative.

Just think, this would also enable the ability to cater to WAP, lynx, WAI, or even robots for that matter.

I'm still getting to know geeklog and the API, but I hope to tackle this once I get more oriented unless the devteam is working on something already.

Thanks again for you hard work! -Matthew

Re:Don't you dare scrap

Authored by: wooge on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 02:21 pm EST

Interesting... it would mean a bit more work on us themers but
imagine a theme that included the HTTP/WAP/TEXT versions of the
same theme...

very interesting...

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