Text Blocked by DIV Instead of Flowing Around

greentiger1 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Wow, didn't realize it validated that badly. I was going to worry
about validation last.......

It should be done ongoing.

Having validations errors forces browsers to recover by guessing your
intent. They do an amazing job of that, overall. Still you never know what
can happen.
I looked only briefly at your CSS. For instance, for some margins there
were units missing (should 10 be px, em, %, what?). Errors like that
produce unpredictable actions.

--
jmm (hyphen) list (at) sohnen-moe (dot) com
(Remove .AXSPAMGN for email)

On Jul 12, 5:18 pm, greentig... (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Wow, didn't realize it validated that badly. I was going to worry
about validation last.......
What really annoys me is that a fair chunk, 1/5 of the errors, come
from the FLASH code, which was COPY-PASTED, and not even
MINE....ARGGGHHH.

Personally, I never trust generated markup. By doing your validation
early and often, it your hopefully reduces your problem to mistakes
you made in other areas.

On Jul 12, 10:53 pm, Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPA... (AT) sohnen-moe (DOT) com> wrote:

I looked only briefly at your CSS. For instance, for some margins there
were units missing (should 10 be px, em, %, what?). Errors like that
produce unpredictable actions.

I was always under the impression that the units defaulted to px when
the units were not supplied.

The HTML is now completely valid, I've changed around some CSS stuff,
but still no dice so far.

Does look a little prettier on the code side, of course.

http://www.gt.horizonhouse.ca/help/output.htm

Wait! I got it, now! Now that my code is alot cleaner, it was a
breeze. Thanks everyone!

On 2007-07-13, greentiger1 (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Wait! I got it, now! Now that my code is alot cleaner, it was a
breeze.

There are problems: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/gt.jpg>,
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/testing/gt2.jpg>.

You are making assumptions about the size of the type that will
appear on a user's browser. You cannot do that. And if you could
specify the exact size of type without allowing the reader to
change it, it would be illegible and therefore useless.

You also need to specify colours for the links. They are
illegible.

--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
========= Do not reply to the From: address; use Reply-To: ========
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)