From: James Edward Gray II Date: 2006-06-20T23:27:54+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-lang.org redesign? On Jun 20, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 6/13/06, James Edward Gray II wrote: >> On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:06 PM, John Gabriele wrote: >> >> > On 6/13/06, James Edward Gray II wrote: >> >> On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Kyrre Nygard wrote: >> >> >> >> > As they say, if you can't do it, don't. >> >> >> >> We look forward to your CSS submissions. >> >> >> > >> > James, can you provide a link to where possible contributors might >> > grab the site source via anon cvs/svn? >> >> Hmm. The site is in a database and served up by the Radiant CMS. >> >> What specifically are you after? We'll consider providing reasonable >> access post launch, if we can easily and safely do so... > > Well, the site is not exactly friendly to people who might want to > save it and edit the stylesheets. > > The stylesheets are referenced with absolute URLs so the page does not > work without modifications. So are images. > > There is also a bug in the page as it is. It does not define > background for all elements that have background-image. This means > that without the images the page is hardly readable. > > When I tried to change the CSS to relative witdhts instead of pixel > widths I found that there are places where modification to CSS alone > is not sufficient. > > The search uses an anonymous (unnamed) table that contains the field > and the button. With CSS alone it would be quite hard to specify > anything for that. > > The code snippet has fixed size borders that produce the rounded > edges. These borders do not play nice with expanding/contracting of > the page. I did not look much into this but I guess that yet another > wrapper div may be needed to format it properly. > > I am not sure it is of any use but here is the modified stylesheet. > You can at least apply the color corrections. Thank you for the feedback. I've forwarded your issues to the style designer for the site. We will look into them. James Edward Gray II