On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:20:28PM +0100, Manuel Kasper wrote:
> On 28.11.2003, at 21:06, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> >Have you considered using a combination of <div> elements and CSS to 
> >get the pixel perfect positioning you want?  That works well in modern
> >browsers, and degrades gracefully.
> 
> The example looks nice, I have to admit. I know that m0n0wall has a bit 
> of a strange mix of HTML and CSS formatting, but then again... It 
> works, and I honestly can't see why I should go and overhaul everything 
> just because it doesn't look the way it's supposed to on a minority of 
> web browsers or because it isn't 100% clean.

This is what I get on a default Firebird install:

    http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/m0n0wall/snapshot1.png

and is what caused me to look at this in the first place.  It's the text
below the "Allow DNS server list..." checkbox that's broken oddly.
 
> If anybody wants to do that while preserving the exact look on at least 
> Mozilla, IE and Safari, then go ahead... 

I'll give that a go now.

> I'd much prefer that people spend time on tasks that are more useful 
> to the future of m0n0wall, though.

For me, long term, it is.  It makes it easier and simpler to write new
functionality, without worrying about hardcoding a lot of look and feel.

N
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