Safari 3.1.2 What is the font?
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The letters that are the biggest offenders are the u, s, n, and r.
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hmmm…i’m using firefox…am i right in thinking that freeway can perform inconsistently across different browser platforms?
font is lubalin…
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Ok I took a look with Firefox 3. Font isn’t any better as far as letter spacing goes. That’s a font issue that has nothing to do with Freeway.
However, I did notice another problem. The large “why sell” text field at the bottom of your form is spilling out of it’s boundary in Firefox but looks fine in Safari. The other minor problem is your footer text is right up against the center text box in Safari but has a margin in Firefox.
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Yes, i had someone have a look at the site on safari the other day, and the last text box was spilling out across the brown container box.
The footer text - do you mean the address text at the base? ‘if you have any questions…’?
Any ideas why the difference / how to solve it?
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In Safari, the form look fine, but the text area box under “Reasons for selling?” has an expandable thingy in the bottom right corner. If I click and drag it I cn make the box as big as I want. Doesn’t have that in Firefox.
Also, is you form in a table? It looks like it’s made with separate boxes with the CSS layout button on and you have a bunch of boxes that don;t stay together well.
Also, in FF the text fields run outside of the purple box, but not in Safari. Weird…
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hi robert…
yes, the form is made from different boxes - i’m new to freeway, and that seemed like the easiest way to do it. It was, until it didnt work! will know for next time…!
Do you know how to fix the inconsistent boxes?
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That’s a feature of Safari 3, and nothing you can do anything about.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Walter
On Sep 30, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Robert Bovasso wrote:
In Safari, the form look fine, but the text area box under “Reasons
for selling?” has an expandable thingy in the bottom right corner.
If I click and drag it I cn make the box as big as I want. Doesn’t
have that in Firefox.
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Steve: Are they CSS boxes or html boxes? Looks like CSS boxes. If they are CSS boxes (green borders) you might be able to just click on each one and make then all “regular” html boxes. Though, your layering might get messed up.
Might check with some of the pros here, first.
Walt: Why only on that box? Strange feature…
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ah. Better not try and fix it then…
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This allows you to expand the size of a texarea if you have a lot of
text to write and don’t want to have to scroll forever.
Walter
On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Robert Bovasso wrote:
Walt: Why only on that box? Strange feature…
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robert - they are html boxes…
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Well, it’s most likely too late now, but a table might be better in the future.
I’m just starting to do forms myself and I’ve done mine in a table which will hopefully keep everything together. It’s quite a long order form.
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yeh, i had a look at tables earlier…i got started and thank god the old form i pasted in from the original design worked on the new page!! its been a pretty long learning curve - my first site i designed myself…! phew! MAy look at tables at a later date
cheers
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Well, the table would be good for the form section, at least. You can do the rest of the page however you like.
I know what you mean about the learning curve! No matter how much I think I understand, someone always requests something I can’t do yet! Like forms!
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Sometime around 30/9/08 (at 16:05 -0400) steve said:
hmmm…i’m using firefox…am i right in thinking that freeway can
perform inconsistently across different browser platforms?
Heh. Web pages can and will display differently across different
browsers. This is a fact of life whatever software you use to
create the pages. Freeway is pretty good at minimising this issue,
but it is something you have to learn to live with at least a little.
However - if you’re setting graphic text then the output is a bitmap
graphic. It will look the same (bad kerning or whatever) wherever
you view it.
Lubalin Graph is a good no-nonsense geometric monoline font that is
based on the designer’s earlier Avant Garde design. But it does
appear that the spacing on the left of the u and a in particular and
e, o and possibly c is a little too large by default when compared
with the overall appearance.
Click between problematic characters and type command-option-space-[
(Apple-alt-space-[) to tighten the kerning between the two letters.
Or use the Spacing control in the Inspector palette to change the
percentage from 0% to something else. In this case you would need a
negative percentage.
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thanks keith - any ideas on how to fix the spacing on a box which is fine in freeway, but gets larger in firefox?
check out the last box on the form…‘reasons for selling’ - in some browsers, it extends out of the brwon container box.
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Sometime around 1/10/08 (at 06:31 -0400) steve said:
check out the last box on the form…‘reasons for selling’ - in some
browsers, it extends out of the brwon container box.
For controlling forms I use Walter’s FreezeFormItem action. This
creates a specific CSS style that specifies a pixel size for the form
element, helping nail down the size in different browsers. Give it a
try - you can get it here: http://freewaypro.com/actions/downloads/
k
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cheers keith - i’ve downloaded that…is it pretty easy to use?
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Apply it to a form element, drag said form element to the dimensions
you want it to be in all browsers, and publish. There are additional
settings, but they’re optional.
Walter
On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:08 AM, steve wrote:
cheers keith - i’ve downloaded that…is it pretty easy to use?
steve
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