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TimM-3
" There are a host of other new features, and you can read about them by
following this link. "

I was going to say there is no link , but pasting it here has just shown the
link... in my browser (firefox) on a laptop the link can be barely seen.

I also notice that at 1024 resolution (its a mini laptop for travel) your
website is just a touch too big (more pronounced in firefox) so contact us
is a bit off screen.

Tim


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Re: Missing link in product line announcement?

Christopher J. Demers
"TimM" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> I also notice that at 1024 resolution (its a mini laptop for travel) your
> website is just a touch too big (more pronounced in firefox) so contact us
> is a bit off screen.

I have noticed the same issue in my Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP.  Also when
the Contact menu is expanded the horizontal slider enlarges because the drop
down is even more off the screen.  The menu should probably be moved a
little more to the left.

On the same computer it looks fine with IE.  However if I do not enable
scripts then there is no navigation menu at all.  I wonder if there should
be a fallback set of normal links for people who choose not to enable
scripts on their browsers.

Chris


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Re: Missing link in product line announcement?

Andy Bower-3
Christopher, Tim

> "TimM" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
> news:[hidden email]...
> ...
> > I also notice that at 1024 resolution (its a mini laptop for
> > travel) your website is just a touch too big (more pronounced in
> > firefox) so contact us is a bit off screen.
>
> I have noticed the same issue in my Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP.
> Also when the Contact menu is expanded the horizontal slider enlarges
> because the drop down is even more off the screen.  The menu should
> probably be moved a little more to the left.
>
> On the same computer it looks fine with IE.  However if I do not
> enable scripts then there is no navigation menu at all.  I wonder if
> there should be a fallback set of normal links for people who choose
> not to enable scripts on their browsers.

I've just made a change to the website stylesheet and the menu code and
I think it should address the problems you were seeing. I've tested the
site with Firefox 1.5 and a 1024x768 screen and it seems okay and
doesn't come up with any superfluous scroll bars now.

The links in the main text area are meant to be fairly faint and
dashed. I've always felt that links embedded in text seem to break up
the flow and make it harder to read. I wanted the links in the main
text area (not the sidebars) to not interfere with the text too much. I
have, however, darkened the colour of the links to make them somewhat
easier to see.

Best Regards,

--
Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com


Ted
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Re: Missing link in product line announcement?

Ted
Andy Bower wrote:

> Christopher, Tim
>
>
>>"TimM" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
>>news:[hidden email]...
>>...
>>
>>>I also notice that at 1024 resolution (its a mini laptop for
>>>travel) your website is just a touch too big (more pronounced in
>>>firefox) so contact us is a bit off screen.
>>
>>I have noticed the same issue in my Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP.
>>Also when the Contact menu is expanded the horizontal slider enlarges
>>because the drop down is even more off the screen.  The menu should
>>probably be moved a little more to the left.
>>
>>On the same computer it looks fine with IE.  However if I do not
>>enable scripts then there is no navigation menu at all.  I wonder if
>>there should be a fallback set of normal links for people who choose
>>not to enable scripts on their browsers.
>
>
> I've just made a change to the website stylesheet and the menu code and
> I think it should address the problems you were seeing. I've tested the
> site with Firefox 1.5 and a 1024x768 screen and it seems okay and
> doesn't come up with any superfluous scroll bars now.
>
> The links in the main text area are meant to be fairly faint and
> dashed. I've always felt that links embedded in text seem to break up
> the flow and make it harder to read. I wanted the links in the main
> text area (not the sidebars) to not interfere with the text too much. I
> have, however, darkened the colour of the links to make them somewhat
> easier to see.
>
> Best Regards,
>

Just been checking it in Firefox 1.0.7 (with tab strip) and found some
strange behaviour. I make the window plenty large enough to have the
home page fit without vertical scrollbar. Then go to one of the other
pages (say, Smalltalk - books ... :-)) and go back to the home page
(using the menu). For no apparent reason a vertical scrollbar appears,
which disappears again when hovering over the menu bar.

I don't know whether it is anything you can/want to do something about,
just found it a bit distracting so thought I'll mention it.

Ted


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TimM-3
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> The links in the main text area are meant to be fairly faint and
> dashed. I've always felt that links embedded in text seem to break up
> the flow and make it harder to read. I wanted the links in the main
> text area (not the sidebars) to not interfere with the text too much. I
> have, however, darkened the colour of the links to make them somewhat
> easier to see.

That change is much better, you can see them more clearly now.

I also get no horizontal scroll bar in Firefox 1.0.6.

However - do notice that the right of the screen moves if you click on some
menus and then open the Products menu.

e.g. Click on the Shop menu item, after the page loads, open the products
menu and the right of the screen jumps out. I think a few other menus do
this as well. Its very minor, and appears to be firefox only.  (bloody
browser wars and their inability to agree on a CSS standard... is my guess).

Tim