Chat application

Sender

Hi guys,

I've designed a chat window for a chat application using tradutional
tables and dirty code because I haven't been able to do it using pure
CSS. Do you think this would have been possible to create it using 100%
tableless code and have it to adapt according to the window dimentions?
http://www.auriance.com/docs/interaction/
Thanks,

May 18 '06 #1

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Jack

Sender wrote:

Hi guys,

I've designed a chat window for a chat application using tradutional
tables and dirty code because I haven't been able to do it using pure
CSS. Do you think this would have been possible to create it using 100%
tableless code and have it to adapt according to the window dimentions?
http://www.auriance.com/docs/interaction/
Thanks,

Yes, it can be done reasonably easily.

--
Jack.

May 18 '06 #2

Sender

Thanks. How can you strech the layout all the way down?

May 18 '06 #3

Jack

Sender wrote:

Thanks. How can you strech the layout all the way down?

Try this.
http://www.jackpot.uk.net/tests/chat.html

Works in perfectly in Opera and Firefox. There's some foolishness with
the vertical scrollbar in IE6, which caan probably be eliminated with
the help of Google and some patience. Opera and Firefox are in standards
mode, IE6 is in quirks mode.

Of course this is a static page; there's no application behind it to
actually do your chat.

--
Jack.

May 19 '06 #4

Sender

Thank you very much jack...
I see... This can't be done in XHTML, can it?

May 19 '06 #5

Jack

Sender wrote:

Thank you very much jack... I see... This can't be done in XHTML, can
it?

Why not? That code is in essence equivalent to XHTML code.

On the other hand, why would you want to use XHTML? For the time being,
that will only cause you headaches, mainly due to deficiencies in the
ability of Microsoft browsers to consume properly-served XML.

--
Jack.

May 19 '06 #6

Toby Inkster

Jack wrote:

http://www.jackpot.uk.net/tests/chat.html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

??

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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May 23 '06 #7

Jack

Toby Inkster wrote:

Jack wrote:
http://www.jackpot.uk.net/tests/chat.html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

??

The XML declaration throws IE6 into quirks mode, which (AFAIK) is the
only mode in which you can get to set the height of a <div> to the
height of the window short of using Javascript. It's ignored by other
browsers, which duly render in standards mode.

Like I said, it works. Perhaps I should have added: "...after a fashion".

Hey, I'm no CSS expert; I'm here to learn. If there are better ways of
doing this, I'd love to see how. I just spent 20 minutes or so trying to
solve the OP's question, partly as an exercise for myself; I put up the
results to show it was possible, which the OP seemed to believe it was not.

--
Jack.

May 23 '06 #8

Toby Inkster

Jack wrote:

Toby Inkster wrote:
Jack wrote:
http://www.jackpot.uk.net/tests/chat.html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

??

The XML declaration throws IE6 into quirks mode

Including XML-ish stuff seems overkill. Can't you just use a simple
 before the DOCTYPE for IE?

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

May 24 '06 #9

Jack

Toby Inkster wrote:

Jack wrote:
Toby Inkster wrote:
Jack wrote:

http://www.jackpot.uk.net/tests/chat.html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

??

The XML declaration throws IE6 into quirks mode

Including XML-ish stuff seems overkill. Can't you just use a simple
 before the DOCTYPE for IE?

I think the XML declaration was left there from a copy-and-paste
exercise; but deleting it screwed-up IE, and that's the reason it
screwed it up. My remark makes it look as if I did that by design, which
I don't think was the case.

Hey, it's not examplary code, by any means - it was thrown together to
prove that something is possible, not to demonstrate the correct way of
doing it. I'd rather leave that to someone who actually knows.

--
Jack.

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