[teaching with drupal] IE6 theming issue--help!

[Dan Butcher]

thanks for the warning--It will be interesting to see what the response is
and if users who are unaware  are upset when their  browser changes.

Dan

On Jan 22, 2008 8:08 AM, Charlie Lowe <cel4145 at cyberdash.com> wrote:

> This is small consolation, but looks like IE 6 will be less of a concern
> on Feb 12. MS is going to push IE 7 onto all systems using Windows Update:
>
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/17/Microsoft-warns-businesses-of-autoupdate-to-IE7_1.html
>
> Dan Butcher wrote:
> > Marc--
> >
> > Thanks for the tip--I had forgotten that IE6 doesn't work well with
> padding.
> > I tried various settings with padding in various style sheets, and
> nothing
> > made a difference. For now, I'm calling it quits on trying to fix it--in
> > terms of access to information on the site, it's more annoying than
> anything
> > else, because nothing appears in the right sidebar on the blog and
> > announcement pages that isn't available elsewhere on the site.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Jan 19, 2008 4:06 PM, Marc C. Santos <mcsantos at purdue.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Dan,
> >>
> >> I can't see what the problem is, but looking at your conditional
> comment,
> >> you
> >> should zero out the padding for IE. You might have already tried this,
> but
> >> IE
> >> and padding play by their own rules (and the problem you are describing
> >> sounds
> >> exactly what IE likes to do).
> >>
> >> Marc
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ph.D Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition
> >> Purdue University
> >> Heavilon Hall
> >> 500 Oval Drive
> >> West Lafayette, IN 47906
> >> http://www.marccsantos.com
> >>
> >> "Order is no longer assured."
> >>                   --Derrida, Archive Fever
> >>
> >>
> >> Quoting Dan Butcher <dan at danbutcher.com>:
> >>
> >>> I'm using a slightly customized version of the Zen theme on my course
> >> sites,
> >>> and everything is displaying correctly--except, of course, in IE6
> >> (haven't
> >>> tried IE7 lately, so that may not work either).
> >>>
> >>> The problem is with the right sidebar; it moves to the bottom of the
> >>> page--but only on my announcements and blog pages. On the home page
> and
> >> book
> >>> pages, the sidebar appears where it is supposed to. On the
> announcements
> >> and
> >>> blog pages, the space is there for the sidebar blocks, but the sidebar
> >> won't
> >>> go where it is supposed to go. I've opened the site for visitors to
> all
> >> but
> >>> the blog posts; you can see the announcements page here:
> >>>
> >>> http://courses.danbutcher.com/101q/announcements
> >>>
> >>> I've looked through the code and css and can't find anything that
> would
> >> make
> >>> the blog and announcement pages handle the layout differently than the
> >> rest
> >>> of the site.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions, insights, etc. are welcome!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Dan
> >>> _________________
> >>> Dan Butcher
> >>> Instructor and Webmaster
> >>> Department of English
> >>> University of Alabama at Birmingham
> >>> dan at danbutcher.com
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