proposal for kdevelop.org new website design

[Niko Sams]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 23:46, Amilcar do Carmo Lucas
<amilcar at kdevelop.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:33:05 Sam S. wrote:
>
>> I just pushed a couple of commits implementing a float based column
>> layout that fixes various quirks of the old position:absolute based
>> one, without rearranging the order of the HTML content.
>> Yes, it turns out that *is* possible, thanks to the "Holy Grain of
>> Layouts" layout at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail
> Yes I used that very same "source of inspiration" when creating the current
> design.
>
>
>> The only "downsides" of this float layout are, as far as I can see:
>> [...]
>>  - it seems to mess up IE even more than it was before (but this
>> should probably be fixable, if necessary with a conditional IE-only
>> stylesheet)
> I think there are some workarounds available. I remember doing some changes to
> the current design so that it works in IE.
>
>> Amilcar, Niko, is this acceptable?
> Is there a place where I can see it in action ?
I just updated http://preview3.vivid-planet.com/
(and your git workingcopy should work too?)

>> (Note that the spacing around the main page content is too large now,
>> this is due to the main content currently consisting of "moduleentry"s
>> which take care of padding, whereas with the new column layout the
>> middle column div itself has the appropriate padding already, so once
>> the moduleentry's are removed and all pages converted to clean
>> "<h1></h1> <p></p> ... <h2></h2> <p></p> ..." markup, all should be
>> fine.)
> Can we keep the moduleentry() function call and change its contents  to
> <h1></h1> ?
> I would hate to have to change all the pages + translated pages.
I heavily modified it already, it's actually quite nice no have a
single function
to change....

Niko