LandOGeekery: HTML

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Windows 8 and browser blocking ??

Stumbled across this article on C-Net.

If it is true that Microsoft are attempting to block other browsers to work on this OS... Wow... What can I say. Firstly Internet Explorer is the worst browser I know of. No HTML5, it requires web-pages to have specific code written for many functions on the Styling Sheets and if I remember correctly, its a bit bulky (a memory hog) and runs Java programs much slower than the competition.

Whilst I am sure it would only be a matter of time before someone finds a proper way around this, (lookit! Chrome for Apple machines!) I think this would be a bad move from Microsoft. Ok, they would have a monopoly for a little while, but I think it would stop many people from getting Windows 8 for as long as they could hold out.

On the flip side - I have not research IE10 - perhaps they will release a version of Internet Explorer that meets the standards laid out by the rivals. Personally I prefer Chrome(41% of market), and then Firefox (34% of market) - and I design my websites to work with these browsers first as they hold the monopoly of the market. (16% for IE) >Linky to browser stats<

...

Time will tell, but for sure it has my attention! (Perhaps this is what they wanted :p )

-V

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Web page setup: Using Footers.

I have spent half the day trying to figure out how to get fixed-footers on web-pages I am making. I have something that works - up until the resolution is larger than my setup... if I fix it, I will update this. The general concensus for getting fixed position footers is to use the following CSS and HTML code for setting up your page template. Best done at the start in my opinion (You ARE planning your websites before you start coding aren't you? :) )

Some notes: no "margin x" commands can be used on the vertical axis as I understand it as it pushes the position of the following <div's> down so you end up with a scrollbar.

-----CSS-----
* {
   margin: 0px;
}
html, body {
   height: 100% ;
}
.mainwapper {
   min-height: 100%;
   height: auto ;
   height: 100%; /*These two set the containing div to the height of the browser window. All displayed div's are contained within.*/
   margin: 0 auto -2em; /*the 2em is height reserved for the footer. The footer is indented by this much to make it sit at the bottom of the page.*/
}
.footer, .push {
   height: 2em;
}

-----HTML-----
Div structure would be:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
   <div id="mainwrapper">
   <div id="push"></div>
   </div>
   <div ="footer">
   </div>
</body>
</html>

Silly me - after writing this I now see where I went wrong setting mine up. Push is a div, hopefully when I tackle this again tomorrow I will get it working as expected. Im not much of a planner at the moment...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Windows 8 and browser blocking ??

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Web page setup: Using Footers.

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