CSS and index.html

[Ruben Kerkhof]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-freebsd-doc at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-doc at freebsd.org] Namens Ceri Davies
> Verzonden: dinsdag 14 december 2004 23:21
> Aan: www at FreeBSD.org
> Onderwerp: CSS and index.html
> 
> [BCC'd to doc as there are undoubtedly people there who are 
> interested]
> 
> I have started to convert index.html to CSS.
> 
> Patches and the result can be viewed at
> http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/FreeBSD/css/index/index.css.diff
> and
> http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/data1/index.html; these are 
> tested in Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 6, Konqueror 3.3.1 and 
> Opera 7.45.
> 
> I chose to use a separate stylesheet index.css for the index 
> page as it allows us to do really cool stuff on the front 
> page later, while leaving the other pages relatively simple.
> 
> A glimpse of the (possible) future at
> http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/data2/index.html for which 
> a patch (against the above) is at 
> http://shrike.submonkey.net/~ceri/FreeBSD/css/index/index.css.
with_the_funky_stuff.diff
> This is heavily based on Eric S. Meyer's "ComplexSpiral 
> Redux" and works with all of the above browsers except one; 
> guess which.  I really like the fact that it's only a 
> two-line diff against the first one.
> I know it makes the text hard to read, but that's because of 
> the way I "watermarked" the images ("erase every other row" in GIMP).
> 
> I'd like to commit the first patch referenced above 
> forthwith; comments?
> 
> Ceri
> 
> PS: The other nice thing is that 10 hours ago I knew nothing 
> about CSS.
> --
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human 
> stupidity, and I'm
> not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)
> 

It looks great, much better than what I created last week, but I'm not such
a CSS guru either.
Strange that in IE 6 under Windows XP I see two pictures of the daemon, one
on the left and one on the right.
I created a screenshot to show what I mean:
http://www.eyp.nl/freebsd/freebsd.jpg

Works great in Fireworks and Mozilla though.

--Ruben Kerkhof