Brion Vibber wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:33, tarquin wrote:
Yikes!
I'd better get back to work on designs!
Mwooh-haa-haa-haaaaa! My evil plan for making other people work has come
to fruition!
:(
Hmm, that shouldn't be necessary...
The simplest thing is to make the sidebar column a float, and give the
footer a clear: both (see attached file for example). There are a couple
problems with this, though: the sidebar has to come before the body in
the source (which is bad for keyboard users & voice browsers).
and also for slow modems and text browsers -- this option is not good
for a default skin.
Also if
you have a clear inside the body div, it seems to zip all the way down
to the bottom of the sidebar. Bah!
yuck!
Another possibility is to use Javascript to reposition
the sidebar.
(Ewwww!)
Eww indeed!
Or, of course, you could use a table. ;)
double ewww!
From a
technical standpoint I have to say that right-handed sidebars are
more problematic
than left-handed sidebars; oversized images, tables, or
preformatted text can overflow into the sidebar, either under/over it or
pushing it offscreen. Putting the default sidebar on the left may be
cleaner.
I agree.
I suggest we remove the user option for quickbar float / left / right.
It's a considerable amount of hassle to implement, since several things
in the HTML and the CSS depend on the quickbar alignment.
It would be easier IMO to make a second template with a right-aligned bar!
(Though pedias with right-to-left text would probably want a quickbar on
the right.)