The design facelift on SM continues, as some people know. I need some
feedback, particularly of a technical nature.


I've put together a DG listing page that is tableless (ie only CSS). It
offers some advantages like being able to not wrap text when subject lines
get too long and/or window sizes are small. OMM, rendering & scrolling are
noticeably faster. The bad news is that it falls flat on it's face if you
are not using a CSS compliant browser.

It works for me on Win IE 5.5 and up, Moz 9.8, and Mac IE 5.1. -- Netscape 4
will crash & burn and Omniweb just can't handle the CSS box model at all
just yet. If you regularly use a browser that can't deal with this, let me
know (off list).

Obviously we can (and will) do a non-css display if a CSS only display is
used. I need to know how many community members this adversely affects in
order to decide which type of display will be the default / how to proceed
for here.

The current comp is here (not 100% final):

http://community.scriptmeridian.org/JSp-messages$date=2002/02/15

Only this (flat) listing page is done. I'm going to begin on the threaded
listing page soon, and then the message reading / editing pages, and then
...


James.

Enclosures

None.  

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