[Thunar-dev] Thunar rather than later... it's a website!

[Yo'av Moshe]

Apparently this is not only a Firefox problem, since I'm a Mozilla
user and also suffering from the same bug.

Epiphany behaves the same.

a Gecko bug.

Yo'av.

On 9/19/05, Jari Rahkonen <jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> Anders Aagaard wrote:
> 
> > Jeff Franks wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been working hard for the past three weeks on my proposal for the
> >> Thunar web site. Rather than risk the discussion becoming an off topic I
> >> collaborated with Jannis Pohlmann off-list to nut out the technical
> >> XHMTL/CSS details, to ensure the website would be standards compliant.
> >> Achieving compliance and a great looking design was hard... because I
> >> had to think outside the box. I'm happy with the result though and
> >> hopefully you will be too.
> >>
> >> So here is the website:
> >>
> >> http://xfc.xfce.org/tmp/thunar-web
> >>
> >> and here is the web page template and CSS file if your interested:
> >>
> >> http://xfc.xfce.org/tmp/thunar-web/template.xhtml
> >> http://xfc.xfce.org/tmp/thunar-web/styles/thunar-blue.css.
> >>
> >> Here are a few points to note:
> >>
> >> 1. I wanted to design a layout that could easily be used for a new Xfce
> >> website (and any of its related websites) if so desired. Just change the
> >> color scheme and logos.
> >>
> >> 2. The main page, index.xhtml contains Dublin Core meta elements for the
> >> HTML head (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/). If you didn't
> >> know, these elements are one of the best ways to make a website known to
> >> the most important search engines.
> >>
> >> 3. The 'top bar' is the area where links to external websites could be
> >> placed, as is currently done on the Xfce website. As there are no links
> >> there yet I have temporarily inserted space. If the space is not there
> >> the top bar will not be displayed.
> >>
> >> 4. The space below the sidebar could be used for dedicated icons, such
> >> as a WC3 XHTML 1.0/CSS compliance icon, or a sponsor's icon if there was
> >> a sponsor.
> >>
> >> 5. With the Opera browser there is a 'corner' image display problem
> >> because of the way the browser resizes images. This is not my problem
> >> and by now I'm sure Opera users are used to such bad effects.
> >>
> >> 6 The text content and links have just been taken from the current
> >> Thunar site as an example of what the new web pages could contain. The
> >> text and links can be changed/refined as required.
> >>
> >> Well that's it. Let me know what you think. It's 0339 in the morning and
> >> I have to get to bed so I'll answer any posts that need to be answered
> >> when I wake up.
> >
> >
> Looks pretty, but I have to join the chorus and say that the sidebar
> is definitely too massive.
> 
> > Looks very nice, clean layout, I like it. One thing I noticed was that
> > I couldn't use my mouse scroll to scroll all of the page. If I put my
> > mouse over the left part of the page (blue part) I can scroll the entire
> > page, if I put it over the white part with news and such, I can only
> > scroll a little.
> >
> If you're using firefox 1.0.x, this might be due to a known problem with
> gtk2 builds of the browser and divs with the css property 'overflow' set
> to 'auto'. I can't be bothered to check the style sheet right now to make
> sure. Here's a test case:
> 
> http://devrandom.com/test/overflow_auto.html
> 
> Works fine here on firefox 1.5 beta.
> 
> >>Jeff.
> >>
> 
> - Jari
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