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From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Orgmode.org homepage
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:55:22 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7cdbe30901071225y5c78e19dx1ae4c819832c9f75@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4ey6gtb.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ>

  > Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com> writes:
  >> Hello Carsten,
  >>
  >> The image at http://imagebin.org/35260 shows the Orgmode homepage in
  >> IE6 and http://imagebin.org/35261 shows the the same page in FF3. The
  >> page in IE (6) is jumbled up (table of contents mixed up with page
  >> contents) since it (IE6) does not support "position: fixed" used in
  >> the org.css. I faced the same issue when I gave some org-generated
  >> HTML documentation to someone using IE yesterday. So I got some help
  >> from a friend and worked out a compromise so that it doesn't break so
  >> horribly in IE6.
  >>
  >> What I did was to create another small CSS file, org-ie6, css,
with following
  >> contents:
  >>
  >>  : #table-of-contents{
  >>  :   position: absolute;
  >>  :   float: left;
  >>  : }
  >>  :
  >>  : body {
  >>  : background-attachment: scroll;
  >>  : }
  >>
  >> And load this CSS conditionally when IE 6 is being used by adding
  >> following line in the generated HTML file's header just above the
  >> <body> tag:
  >>
  >>  : <!--[if lt IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" href="org-ie6.css"
  >> type="text/css" ><![endif]-->
  >>
  >> (previous line may wrap)
  >>
  >> The compromise is that the table of contents in the sidebar (along
  >> with the background image) scrolls up with the page unlike in FF,
  >> which IMHO, is an acceptable compromise. I have been told that some
  >> javascript magic can make IE6 behave like "position: fixed" but I
  >> haven't yet worked out how/if that can be done.
  >>
  >> Possibly a better workaround/solution exists for this else please
  >> consider making similar change to the Orgmode home page.
  >>
  >> Also, I do not have access to IE7 so I do not know if that works.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>
> This is what I use in such cases. All styles starting with '*' are read
> by IE only. No compromise should be neccessary.
>
>
>
>
> @media screen {
>
> /* ... all your styles here ... */
>
> #table-of-contents
> {
>  position:fixed;
>  width:198px;
> }
>
> * html { overflow-y: hidden; }
>
> * html body {
>  overflow-y: auto;
>  height: 100%;
>  padding: 0 0 0 0;
>  font-size: 100%;
> }
>
> * html div#table-of-contents { position: absolute; }
> }

This is a much better solution.  I have an on/off-topic question
though, if you do not mind.  In case the TOC contents are more than
what fits on the page what do I add to css (or may be to #+OPTIONS
line?) to bring up a scroll bar like in
http://orgmode.org/Changes.html?

Regards,
-- 
Manish

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07 18:28 Suggestions for Orgmode.org homepage Manish
2009-01-07 19:45 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-01-07 20:25   ` Manish [this message]
2009-01-08  2:53     ` Sebastian Rose
2009-01-08  4:02       ` Manish
2009-01-07 23:41   ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-08  2:54     ` Sebastian Rose
2009-01-08  3:27       ` Samuel Wales
2009-01-07 21:26 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-01-08  5:44   ` Manish
2009-01-08  9:03 ` R: " Giovanni Ridolfi

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