From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 08:05:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C1F16A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:05:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-3-1-cust208.cdif.cable.ntl.com [82.31.78.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CA643D45 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:05:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from ceri by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1EPF8x-0009iy-H6; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:05:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:05:51 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: George Danchev Message-ID: <20051011080551.GV99170@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , George Danchev , freebsd-www@freebsd.org References: <20051010102511.GC2617@flame.pc> <20051010103207.GM99170@submonkey.net> <200510111038.30921.danchev@spnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FlxqdQUIXA+HMkrt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510111038.30921.danchev@spnet.net> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CSS 1.X vs. 2.X attributes X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:05:56 -0000 --FlxqdQUIXA+HMkrt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:38:30AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 13:32, Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:25:11PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > Bearing in mind that: > > > > > > * min-width is a CSS 2.X (but not CSS 1.X) attribute > > > * it may improve the resizing of our front page > > > * the following mini-quote from a discussion me and des@ took par= t in > > > > > > # Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:21:17 +0300 > > > # From: Giorgos Keramidas > > > # > > > # On 2005-10-10 12:03, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > > # >Giorgos Keramidas writes: > > > # >> How about specifying a minimum of 765px and then a width of 75%? > > > # >> > > > # >> min-width: 765px; > > > # >> width: 75%; > > > # >> > > > # >> That should do the trick. > > > # > > > > # > Ah, I didn't know about min-width; it's not in CSS1. > > > # > > > # You're right, of course. It is part of CSS 2.X. I'm not sure what= is > > > # the CSS standards level we want to be compatible with, so I'll have= to > > > # ask the folks at freebsd-www about using min-width or other CSS 2.X > > > # attributes. > > > > > > What is our current policy (assuming we actually _have_ one) about us= ing > > > CSS 1.X vs. 2.X attributes in stylesheets for the web site? > > > > I think it's probably OK. They'll just get ignored by browsers that > > don't understand them, and the alternative in this instance is to not > > include it any way as I understand it. >=20 > Please don't go for such experiments. It will open another can of worms, = e.g.=20 > inter-browser inconsistencies thus different look'n feel. I have personally decided that browsers that don't conform to standards don't matter to me any more; once they stop working on 50% of the web, they might get fixed. I guess the FreeBSD Project might need to bend to them. Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --FlxqdQUIXA+HMkrt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDS3JfocfcwTS3JF8RAqUrAJ9SFVGX6rjGelr/BMxcyfK251F3zgCePuU0 BOlqpAn5WNqovzNKL97myF0= =DtfP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FlxqdQUIXA+HMkrt--