[Phpmyadmin-devel] font sizes, css, IE quirks mode, scrollbars

[Marc Delisle]

Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Marc Delisle schrieb:
>> Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
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>>>>> Marc Delisle schrieb:
>>>>>> Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> at the moment phpMyAdmin forces IE into quirks mode, what makes most of
>>>>>>> the current CSS problems
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> removing the XML declaration enables standard compliance mode for IE,
>>>>>>> what makes IE to behave 'more' towards the CSS standards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but this also reveals the horizontal/vertical scrollbar bug
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IE displays a unneeded/unwanted horizontal scroll bar as soon as it
>>>>>>> display a vertical scrollbar, whether the horizontal scrollbar is
>>>>>>> required or not.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> there is no satisfying solution on the web (most just completely remove
>>>>>>> the horizontal scroll bar or display them always)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> i have figured out some possible solutions:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://sebastianmendel.de/ie_scrollbar_bug/frameset.htm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the first two uses conditional CSS, the first seems to be make problems,
>>>>>>> the second seems to work fine - just the space between window-border and
>>>>>>> content is now between scrollbar and window and not between scrollbar
>>>>>>> and content
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the third is a (bot complete) JavaScript solution
>>>>>> Sebastian,
>>>>>> forcing a vertical scrollbar solves this IE horizontal scrollbar problem:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> html {
>>>>>> 	overflow-y: scroll;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you think about it?
>>>>> yes, this is also one of the mentioned solutions i do not prefer, so we
>>>>> would have always a scrollbar in navigation frame!
>>>>>
>>>>> of course this is not a problem at all, but
>>>>>
>>>>>  - it looks ugly
>>>>>  - it wastes spaces, especially in the navigation frame
>>>>>
>>>>> but it is also a more 'cleaner' and smaller solution ... i don't know
>>>> Yes it's cleaner, smaller, less code to maintain and understand... 
>>>> especially since we are doing it as a bug workaround!
>>> a bugfix for about more 50% of the people, just remember all this posts 
>>> about font size - do you think no one will blame on us for the scrollbars?
>> Yes of course we have to do our best about this.
>>
>> Do you have a test machine with IE 7 beta3 installed? I would be curious 
>> about the scrollbar bug on this version?
> 
> it is the same with IE 7
> 
You mean IE 7 beta3!

Oh sh*t :)

If we have to choose between having the horizontal scrollbar bug and to 
force a vertical scrollbar, I would go with forcing the vertical one; I 
think that very often, users are in the situation where a real vertical 
bar has to be shown anyway.

Marc