- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 05:19:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Yes, float implementation is poor in older CSS part-implementations. That's
why I put the main stuff first - since I think navigation stuff is as useful
at the end in general.
It is indeed very presentationalist - that's why I used a presentation
language to specify it. The underlying HTML stands fine without the
presentation (in my opinion as the author), but the presentation helps people
who use it.
Agree on the .nav thing - my test page fixed that and made the .nav class
have a width of 25%
cheers
Chaals
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, David Woolley wrote:
> .main { float:right ; width:75%}
> .nav { background-color: gold }
I'd have the following concerns about this:
- I believe implementation of floats in browsers is weak, although
maybe the broken ones don't recognize it in CSS at all;
- this is very presentationalist - it is using a float for the part
that is not logically a float - the navigation pane is closer to a
true float;
- as already pointed out, .nav is full width and simply overload by
the float. If the main text is small, the navigation bar will escape
under its bottom.
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