Developers of Sympa

[Francis Lachapelle <address@concealed>]

Hi Serge

On 2005-02-22 10:06:28 -0500 Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites 
<address@concealed> wrote:

> I currently woorking for a new skin for Sympa. You can have a look at 
> http://wwww.sympa.org/dev . It use xhtml en CSS base on a skin 
> published on 
> site  www.oswd.org and named canvas.  Main menu, list menu and admin 
> menu not 
> use anymore table so templates are must more simple and easy to 
> customize.
>
> Any remark on this very begining job is welcome.

This is a great improvement from the default skin! However, I would 
suggest to simplify your CSS; too much different colors, too much 
different font sizes! You should also move all of the text properties 
to your CSS file instead of specifying them in your XHTML.

> May be you can help me for a small problem I can't solve : when using 
> links 
> inside a simple table the link is underlined. I have installed a very 
> very 
> simple page at http://www.cru.fr/perso/sa/ that show 2 kind of  link. 
> The 
> page use the original unmodified ccs by reference to
>
> http://www.oswd.org/design/1650/Blank_Canvas/style.css
>
> I can't understand why the link inside a table are not conform with 
> your CSS 
> ? Also the IE6 view of this page is incorrect (red line are not 
> placed 
> correctly)

For the links problem, you shoud remove the "*" from the following 
definitions:

.ContentBlock * a {
        border-bottom: 1px dotted #FF0000;
        text-align: left;
}
.ContentBlock * a:hover {text-decoration:none;}
.ContentBlock * a img {border: 0px;}

For IE6, the "padding-bottom" property of the following definition is 
causing the problem:

strong {text-indent: 30px; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom:10px;}

By the way, a good practice is to validate your XHTML and CSS. 
Currently, none is valid:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.cru.fr/perso/sa/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.cru.fr/perso/sa/

Francis

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