OK, I'm trying to make a simple web page. I know that one shouldn't expect too
much of browsers in terms of layout, but this is a simple task and I don't even
know where to start.
Point your browser to: http://www.stoptrick.com/new/ and find a directory
listing. Look at layout_start.png in that directory, which is what my colleagues
think the web site should look like.
Pretty much the only important thing is that the contents of the left and right
columns should be flush at the top AND at the bottom (with no exaggerated
expectation of bottom flushedness ).
So I've done this simple page, start.html, and it already looks pretty good in
opera, but in Firefox it sucks dicks (see screenshot pngs in that directory). I
haven't even got started on IE and other crap browsers.
The people who did the original layout are sort of print people. I'm sure all of
you know the conflicts stemming from that combination. When I tell them that
HTML isn't print and you can't tell how web pages are rendered on different
browsers, they tell me they know but it couln't be possibly THIS fucked up. And
I think they're right. There's got to be a better approximation of the target
layout using HTML and CSS than what I've managed so far.
Thanks,
robert
