I'll look forward to seeing how it holds together with all the Serendipity stuff in it
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Nope, I haven't - and I can't until I'm back at home in a few hours. It's basically the code I used for the yl15-Template.carl_galloway wrote:@yellowled, I haven't looked all that hard into your sourcecode, but it seems similar to the code used in bex02 and andreas09, have you compared them to see if those bugs can be resolved?
I'm still not sure how unbreakable this is once images and more floats are involved. However, I have just now commited all three pages to browsershots.org, in about 4-24 hours we should have results. Plus, I have checked it at home under Windows, and it looks pretty good even in the earlier IEs ...carl_galloway wrote:Also, I have many unfinished templates, but I've been moving in other directions and whilst I have some ideas for vanilla templates they're still too raw compared to your demo.
I'd prefer to turn this into a working s9y template first, which I can probably do before the weekend. I'll keep you guys posted.carl_galloway wrote:The big test of the 'bulletproof' layout would be backporting a couple of the more popular templates such as coffee cup or andreas08 into your codebase and test it for breakages.
Which problems?carl_galloway wrote:the yl-15 template seems pretty solid so this could be a good layout to use as the base, from a support point of view, do you think those problems can be resolved?
Go ahead, but as I said I have commited all example pages to browsershots.org, and the results look very good:carl_galloway wrote:At the moment I have ff2, ff1.5, ie6, ie7 on two windows machines but from next week this might not be the case, do you want me to test anything while I have the chance?
Makes me rethink my "Mac sucks" attituded_cee wrote:I've checked this out in FF1.5, FF2 and Safari on the mac and it looks fine.
Thanks, Dave - but let's hold out breath for a while. This is still very basic (actually, it's not much more than a XHTML layout from a book ported to s9y), and I really want to do this step by step.d_cee wrote:Nice work!
I'm no expert, but could not the theme author provide multiple style sheets each of which uses a different color scheme then have s9y offer a drop down box showing each of the stylesheet.css file names that exist in that theme's directory?YellowLed wrote:But how do we (easily) change the basic colors and header image from the template config?
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That is of course a possibility. In fact, this is already possible in v1.1-templates using colorsets. But it's not exactly what I would like to seeOwen Stubbs wrote:I'm no expert, but could not the theme author provide multiple style sheets each of which uses a different color scheme then have s9y offer a drop down box showing each of the stylesheet.css file names that exist in that theme's directory?YellowLed wrote:But how do we (easily) change the basic colors and header image from the template config?
YL
I seem to remember Carl and Garvin doing some work with a colourwheel. I don't know how it ended up although I seem to recall some difficulties. I'm sure Carl will recall.we still need a way to change the header image, the basic colors,
Sounds ideal.and the entry footer, which is probably the easiest thing to do. But what exacly do we want to offer for the entry footer? Something like:
- full footer (basically the way it is now in the default template)
- slim footer (no comments/trackback info; nice feature for the s9y-as-a-cms guys)
- split footer (I have working code for that; this basically means to split it up into an "author byline" which is display below the entry title and a second footer holding comments, trackbacks and stuff; might be nice for multi-user blogs)
Too kind, as usualcarl_galloway wrote:I finally found some time to look at your bulletproof template, very nice, I like it a lot, and I can see myself using that codebase for a lot of future templates. Very very well done.
Yes, if the sidebars have a different background-color than the content. Not really a problem, more like ill-favoured. I don't want to use sliding faux columns (i.e. background images) for colored sidebars. This template has a wrapper div, so we can assign the same bg color to the wrapper and the sidebars to reach the same effect. However, if the content is shorter and has a different bg color, it will have the color of the wrapper/sidebars at the bottom. Doesn't look great, but I'm pretty positive this won't happen too often in a blog.carl_galloway wrote:You mentioned in previous post that if the content was shorter than the sidebars you were having problems, is this still a problem?
Ah, that old problem, there are other ways of styling the content pane so that this isn't really a problem, and if a user particularly wants this ability they could always copy your code into one of the tables based templates.Yes, if the sidebars have a different background-color than the content. Not really a problem, more like ill-favoured. I don't want to use sliding faux columns (i.e. background images) for colored sidebars. This template has a wrapper div, so we can assign the same bg color to the wrapper and the sidebars to reach the same effect. However, if the content is shorter and has a different bg color, it will have the color of the wrapper/sidebars at the bottom. Doesn't look great, but I'm pretty positive this won't happen too often in a blog.