Email conversation
| From | Oion |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | About your 'Nested list collapsing script' script and Browser speed tests ;) |
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| Date | 21 February 2005 03:01 |
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Hello!
Fantastic site. I did a search through your e-mail but
didn't find I what I was looking for so here's it is
I want to use your 'Nested list collapsing script' in
my site and was trying to view it in the browsers I
have (Op7.54, K-meleon 0.9, Net6, IE5, IE5.5, IE6,
FF1.0), but IE5.0 gave me a peculiar result:
[sample page address]
It looks like the list item thingies are
super-stretched out. Note that I'm not using a *full*
IE5.0 install, but rather the standalones talked about
at Quirksmode that you have linked elsewhere. I assume
these work the same as their full-OS counterparts, but
if you could confirm that your collapsing script works
perfectly fine or not in IE 5.0, I would appreciate
that...
Also, I don't know if you've gotten any comments about
this, but if you ever have the time you may want to
try adding K-meleon 0.9 to the browser speed tests.
It's a vast improvement over 0.8.2 and my
second-choice browser after Opera at the moment. It
uses the Mozilla 1.7.5 core, which I suppose is
already out of date by the time they released 0.9, but
at least the development is still moving.
Thanks a lot!
As someone with a scientific background, I appreciate
the pains you went through to get objective test
results. Much better than most everything else I've
seen. :)
-oion
| From | Me |
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| To | Oion |
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| Subject | Re: About your 'Nested list collapsing script' script and Browser speed tests ;) |
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| Date | 21 February 2005 10:01 |
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oion,
Yes, it appears that IE 5.0 on NT based kernels stretches them (works fine
for me in IE 5.0 on Windows 98). This is because I have added a fix for IE
5.5+:
li a { ... height: 100%; ... }
You can remove that fix if you want. If you remove it, IE 5.5+ may leave a
couple of pixels gap under each link. It's harmless.
It seems IE 5.0 uses the wrong parent element for percentage sizes.
In theory you could also use conditional comments to just undo the fix in
IE 5.0, but IE 5.0 panics and refuses to draw anything at all - great ....
:)
Alternatively, you could just ignore my CSS and use your own.
As for K-Meleon, there really is not much point. The thing is there are so
many browsers, and I could test each one with each version increment, but
that would be a never-ending task, and I have a life to live outside of
computers. I have compared 0.8.3 and 0.9 against each other on a different
computer to the one I used for the official test results, and got virtually
identical times. 0.9 was actually a little slower at most things. I will
wait for version 1.0 before I retest on the proper test computer. Hopefully
that will have the 1.8 engine so it should be faster.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/