Metropol

I don't like the big orange gap between the posts if what is written doesn't take up enough lines to fit in the avatar etc. on the left - if that makes sense? I think before the white box extended to the end of the area each post took up?

Aston wrote:I don't like the big orange gap between the posts if what is written doesn't take up enough lines to fit in the avatar etc. on the left - if that makes sense? I think before the white box extended to the end of the area each post took up?

Crazy fool!

Aston wrote:I don't like the big orange gap between the posts if what is written doesn't take up enough lines to fit in the avatar etc. on the left - if that makes sense? I think before the white box extended to the end of the area each post took up?

Yes - that's how it used to be I recall.

Incidentally, Hyma, is it me or does phpbb3.0 use CSS for the sake of using CSS? There's not a <table> to be seen, even when it would evidently be appropriate such as in the thread listing.

cdd wrote:

Aston wrote:I don't like the big orange gap between the posts if what is written doesn't take up enough lines to fit in the avatar etc. on the left - if that makes sense? I think before the white box extended to the end of the area each post took up?

Yes - that's how it used to be I recall.

Incidentally, Hyma, is it me or does phpbb3.0 use CSS for the sake of using CSS? There's not a <table> to be seen, even when it would evidently be appropriate such as in the thread listing.

Tables should only be used for tabular data, and if used for layout can affect accessibility (for search engines and screen readers). However I think for thread listings the use of a table could be justified as it appears in a table with columns and rows, even though its been coded using only CSS.

Charlie Wells wrote:

cdd wrote:

Aston wrote:I don't like the big orange gap between the posts if what is written doesn't take up enough lines to fit in the avatar etc. on the left - if that makes sense? I think before the white box extended to the end of the area each post took up?

Yes - that's how it used to be I recall.

Incidentally, Hyma, is it me or does phpbb3.0 use CSS for the sake of using CSS? There's not a <table> to be seen, even when it would evidently be appropriate such as in the thread listing.

Tables should only be used for tabular data, and if used for layout can affect accessibility (for search engines and screen readers). However I think for thread listings the use of a table could be justified as it appears in a table with columns and rows, even though its been coded using only CSS.

Exactly, it is a table of topics, viewings, posts etc. Everything about it is a table. It's bizarre to have formatted it as CSS.

Are you tweaking Hyma? The background's gone white at my end.

Edit - it's back now.

It's done as a list with descriptive points. The theory being that the main info is the thread title and everything else is supplementary.

The big orange box thing with short posts is annoying I agree. I've certainly got a plan in my head for how to fix it but whether it would work is another matter.

However the computer is still living in its box therefore I can't do anything about it for a while. Probably not another week at least.

My confession is that I secretly hate CSS and wish it would just go away, it claims to be inter-compatible and ultra-reliable but actually it's unpredictable and CSS-based solutions always tend to involve things that seem work-aroundy, such as 200px margins. I secretly love Tables and the simplicity of them, you can do pretty much any design with good old Tables and apart from nonsense like Cellpadding in IE6 you don't have any of this hassle. I really loathe sites like zengarden because it looks like a lot of work - a huge amount of work - to get a result that isn't much better than frames. The CSS for metropol, for example, is several pages long. I don't understand why CSS can't just be used where necessary - for example for certain formatting - and deprecated, but still perfectly good, HTML formatting code could be used elsewhere. I know the "HTML Code for content and markup and CSS for formatting and layout" paradigm is all very lovely and panaceic and speaks to my purist soul but employing that structure to the letter produces bulky messy and cluttered code with no real gains in compatibility.

Anyway, that's my

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I would like to take issue with the first four words of the above post.