Anatomy of a mouse (day 4)
It has been a very interesting week. What can I say except a big fat thanks...
It has been a very interesting week. I cannot say thank-you enough to all the people who have left kind comments about the Disney Store UK project, here, at CSS Beauty, CSS Vault and at Style Gala.
I would also like to say thank-you to Ethan for the post on The Web Standards Project and for all of you, including the author of a certain (pale) orange book, who linked in.
I and the team at Stuff would like to say thank-you for all the helpful suggestions and links, and for being so free with your time and your interest.
Wrapping it up
There were a number of interesting suggestions and ideas that came out of the discussions this week. One that we are addressing immediately is the removal of the corporate toolbar from all secure pages which currently causes a security warning. The toolbar is fed from an external source (hence the warning) and we are now working to replace the bar with a graphical link.
Flash
John Oxton and Jonathon Snook raised the idea of using a local shared object of Flash for the animated banner. This will remove the need for a customer to press Stop Animation on each page. I must confess that I had not come across the technique before, and I will be passing the information to the Flash guys. If you missed John's comment, here is the link for information on local shared objects.
On the subject of the Flash header, we will be experimenting with Ian Hickson's code if any problems are reported in IE5 (thanks Aleksander).
Over the coming weeks we will be running some tests on the site using sIFR to replace the graphical FIR headers. I am confident that this will be a real success.
After comments about legibility on some buttons, we have now increased the contrast (no more white on yellow). I am also hoping that we can solve the irritation of the Mac IE5 bug on the home page assets. Any suggestions will be welcome.
We did encounter a bug however, and have (currently) found no way to fix it :(Karova Store outputs XHTML without whitespace in the mark-up. This is fantastic if you want to forget about IE PC's whitespace bug, but here it breaks Dave's shiny Sprites. The lack of whitespace between list items makes IE5 Mac collapse the list, breaking the layout.
That's it wrapped up
What can I say except a big fat thanks...
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#1 On October 9, 2004 06:10 PM patrick h. lauke said:
andy, not sure if this would solve your karove/whitespace problem, but it's an interesting read nonetheless
XML.com: Controlling Whitespace
TopXML Example: Whitespace preserving and stripping
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