[OSM-talk] Front page design

[Tom Higgy]

Current draft (http://higgy.bandnet.org/openstreetmap/draft-index3.html) 
now has all links working. Also a little bit of JS to clear the search 
text box (doesn't seem to work in IE - any ideas?).

The search box does work. Is that behaviour OK?

I'm not sure where the image under 'edit the map' should point to. The 
'Editing' wiki page or directly to the online editor? Same with the 
'online editor' link.

Wollschaf wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:56:05 +0100, Tom Higgy wrote:
> 
>> Please check how well it works in various browsers. Looks good to me in
>> FF1.5 and IE6, even with various font sizes.
> 
> FF1.5/Linux renders the page perfectly for standard font size, but
> Konqueror 3.5.4 has some minor problems: 
> - "view the map" is connected to the bottom grey area 
> - "edit the map" has around 3px distance 
> - "get involved" around 8px spacing.

OK, I've increased the default height of the boxes so they should be 
more uniform in Konqueror at the expense of a bit of blank space at the 
bottom of each of box.

I guess it comes down to whether they should all be the same size for a 
minority of browser users or whether they shouldn't have too much extra 
space in them for the rest of the world.

> Using a smaller font size, the boxes are all of the same height, but have
> no margin at the bottom.

I think the problem is in using floats to set them side by side and how 
the browsers handle them differently.

> Both browsers do not keep the boxes at the same height for larger font
> sizes. I do not know how to achieve uniform height, sorry. It's not that
> important, though.

I don't know either. For default font sizes I've set a minimum height 
(fixed height for IE but it doesn't seem to increase the font size 
properly anyway, at least in IE6.0). As the font size increases, so do 
the box heights.

Cheers,

Tom.

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