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Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> Curtis Napier wrote: |
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>>That is technically possible to make the ad div disappear with a button |
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>>click. It would require javascript though and I really really really |
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>>don't want to put any javascript in the site. |
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> Yeah, i hear ya there.. |
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>>I played around with putting the ads column into the overall content div |
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>>and floating it to the right. This would make the text wrap under the |
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>>ads but it caused tons of other bugs to creep in with other divs inside |
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>>the content div (like the warnings and code listings) and required |
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>>workarounds that would make it more complicated than it needs to be. |
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>>Especially considering the background banners on the content and ads |
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>>column have to line up perfectly. |
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>>If all browsers rendered css the same it would be really easy to do. |
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>>*cough*IE*cough* |
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>>Is having the dead space that big of a deal? I *could* work on it and |
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>>see if I can come up with something better but it would require a lot of |
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>>time so I would like to push this off to a future update if possible. |
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> Not a huge deal. You already took out the left pane (which helps A |
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> LOT!), but would be nice if we could get it totally clean. I wondered if |
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> wrapping the text around it would cause problems. Its not a show stopper |
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> for me, but I was curious of the issues surrounding it. |
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> *IF* we decided to add the javascript for that, how much of a PITA will |
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> that create? Is that something that will cause more issues down the |
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> road? Or mainly a need to stay away from it because of accessibility |
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> issues, etc? |
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> I'm curious what other folks think about this. I want us to promote our |
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> sponsors, but I'd also like to have a clean page that renders fully from |
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> left to right. (just me though) |
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Making the text wrap under the ads wouldn't be *that* big of a deal |
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actually. It would just take me some time to set it up and then test |
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test test on all the various browsers. I could make it work within a few |
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hours if you really wanted me too but only if you *really* wanted me too. |
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Making the div completely disappear would also not be that big of a |
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deal, other than the javascript thing of course. |
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By the way, if you view any page as printable either by clicking the |
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print icon on doc pages or simply by appending ?style=printable to any |
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page you get no ads at all. The entire site can be browsed this way. You |
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lose the menus though. The version of the handbook that is distributed |
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on liveCD's uses the text version. Not that this is an answer to your |
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question, just saying. |
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