[WEB4LIB] RE: Opera 5 (Win) release FREE

[Thomas Dowling]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Zalben" <Robin.Zalben at alverno.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Opera 5 (Win) release FREE


> Since it is free, I decided to see how our web page looks in it...well
I've
> come up with about 3 things that don't seem to be working properly, and
I'm
> wondering if it is a CSS compliance issue or if it is my bad coding.
>
> http://depts.alverno.edu/library
>
> Problem 1: The titles in the upper right corner are being interpreted as
> white instead of maroon background white text. (table stuff)


>From your stylsheet's properties for TD.title:
  background: darkred;

>From <URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#color-units>:

=========
A color is a either a keyword or a numerical RGB specification...The
suggested list of keyword color names is: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia,
gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal,
white, and yellow. These 16 colors are taken from the Windows VGA
palette, and their RGB values are not defined in this specification.
=========

So no support in the spec for "darkred".


>
> http://depts.alverno.edu/dbsubject.html
>
> Problem 2: If you click on the referral links in the top table, the text
> become so tiny it is unreadable.
>
> Problem 3: Weird "connection closed" messages while searching
subscription
> electronic databases.
>
>

Opera renders the "404 Not Found" message perfectly.  :-)

Looking at <URL:http://depts.alverno.edu/library/dbsubject.html>:

The stylesheet for TD.bolda includes:
  font-size:smaller;

The spec doesn't define how much smaller than normal text "smaller"
should be.  With my settings in IE and Mozilla, that text is in
flyspeck mode also.

I couldn't tell you about the subscription services, since I can't get
in to most of what you have.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu