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Elk Development => Bug Reports => Exterminated Bugs => Topic started by: emanuele on March 16, 2014, 05:42:57 pm

Title: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: emanuele on March 16, 2014, 05:42:57 pm
It's at the "first step" of low-res (when the menu becomes icons), see the attachments next to the avatar.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: Antechinus on March 16, 2014, 07:04:09 pm
Why are you having avatars in that location when the screen is so small that icons have to be used for the menu?
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: Spuds on March 16, 2014, 09:41:27 pm
I think thats one of those between sizes.  The querys were set up for standard screen widths, so 480, 640, 800 etc but when you do a 641 or a 801 etc you can get some odd things.  Either the querys need to be updated to cover the "tween" ranges or new querys added to account for folks that narrow a desktop browser windows.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: Antechinus on March 16, 2014, 10:54:02 pm
They can always just narrow it another 1 or 2 px. :)

TBH I always expect things like this when dealing with responsive sites. If something's a bit wonky at one wndow size, I just change the size slightly. It's hard to cover absolutely everything, especially when some people use browser sidebars and some don't, etc.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: IchBin on March 16, 2014, 11:00:35 pm
Responsive means adjusting to the screen resolution. Not at the whim of someone dragging a browser window back and forth. lol If we tried to cover every possible resolution that made the theme look weird, we'd have a lot of extra CSS in there that really isn't needed IMO.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: Antechinus on March 16, 2014, 11:19:51 pm
Yeah I think the aim should be to provide useful CSS, not theoretically perfect CSS.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: Nao on March 17, 2014, 12:26:50 pm
Quote from: IchBin – Responsive means adjusting to the screen resolution. Not at the whim of someone dragging a browser window back and forth. lol If we tried to cover every possible resolution that made the theme look weird, we'd have a lot of extra CSS in there that really isn't needed IMO.
Good forward thinking...  ::)
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: emanuele on March 17, 2014, 04:23:29 pm
Never mind, it's just the browser I'm using... :-[
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: TE on March 17, 2014, 11:52:15 pm
Noticed that odd bahaviour, too.. I'll check.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: IchBin on March 20, 2014, 07:42:52 pm
Quote from: Nao –
Quote from: IchBin – Responsive means adjusting to the screen resolution. Not at the whim of someone dragging a browser window back and forth. lol If we tried to cover every possible resolution that made the theme look weird, we'd have a lot of extra CSS in there that really isn't needed IMO.
Good forward thinking...  ::)

Because everyone drags their browser window around, especially on phones? Cover the most used resolutions of course. But just because the theme looks wonky at 795px wide, doesn't mean we should adjust for that when it looks great at 800px.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: Nao on March 22, 2014, 09:00:51 am
People may not be resiwing their window all the time. But they also may not be maximizing it. So if they decide to keep their window at 795px*500px so they can keep other things in view, are they to be shunned out of a proper layout?
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: scripple on March 22, 2014, 12:22:29 pm
I feel similarly to Nao on this.  I know few people that keep their desktop browser on some cardinal size.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: IchBin on March 23, 2014, 06:40:29 pm
Quote from: Nao – People may not be resiwing their window all the time. But they also may not be maximizing it. So if they decide to keep their window at 795px*500px so they can keep other things in view, are they to be shunned out of a proper layout?

Just because an item or two is a little mis-aligned or out of place doesn't mean they aren't receiving a proper layout.
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: emanuele on March 24, 2014, 04:02:31 pm
Though if it is possible to fix it it's better! :P
Title: Re: Bit of odd stuff at "low" res
Post by: IchBin on March 25, 2014, 04:57:04 pm
Quote from: emanuele – Though if it is possible to fix it it's better! :P

I agree. My point being that if you are going to go through all layout and look at all 1000 pixel widths between the main resolutions, you are going to have a bunch of bloat CSS.
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