20 March 2009, 9:35

Hi. While debugging and testing my theme in various browsers, I noticed several pages that act a bit weird in IE7 (go figure...). Anyway, I ended up looking at the mahara.org site in the same settings and see teh same issues. 

All of this is on M$ XP Pro:

It manifests when in Profile, where the left column is too wide.  It gives weird effects when at 1024X768 in IE7. When in My Goals, the title My Goals is where it should be, but the rest of the left colum (the editor boxes) are pushed down below the level of the Online Users box. Here is link to the screen grab: http://mahara.org/artefact/file/download.php?file=7188

It all works, but a user must scroll down to see page content.

FF at 1024X768 does not make a user scroll down, but that same My Goals page causes the left editor boxes to overlap the right column a bit.

All issues go away when I test in 1152 and up.

My google analytics are showing I am still getting about 48% (the majority) of IE (78% of those in IE7+). 24% are still using 1024X768, so I don't think we shoudl just discount that resolution either.  Even though I use a higher resolution and FF all the time, I keep trying to design to test in IE. (Thanks God almost no one is using 800X600 IE6!!!! LOL).

I was wondering if there are organized, active people working on CSS issues?  If not, then why don't we use this group here to mess with it and make suggestions that can be incorporated back?  I am willing to help share what I am finding, problems as well as solutions

Jamie

21 March 2009, 19:52

Hi - yeah, actually I remember seeing that issue once or twice before, I think it's present in 1.0.X too.

A quick background on what's happening with the theme currently - I've had Evonne, our graphic designer, tweaking the CSS on and off for a while now. She's also been reducing the size of it, as it's a bit big. And later on this year, we'll be doing a usability sprint which will certainly end up in us making changes to the CSS.

If anyone wants to propose small tweaks and fixes, it would be great to hear them of course! The most important thing is, once there is something to apply, it should be filed as a bug on the tracker so we can remember to apply it

As for this issue you've found.. might be worth making a bug for it - and if you have a patch that would be most welcome. And I'll try and get Evonne to have a look at it too, though maybe she'll have already fixed it on her playground site.