Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Hall
Opera 7.23 (Linux) does identify itself as IE6, and the new site looks just as good in Opera as it does in Mozilla. Screenshots at: http://www.freedos.org/news/opera/ -jh Jim Hall wrote: Luchezar Georgiev wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 04 08:17:30 +0100 (BST), Michael Bernardi wrote: Given that thi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Hall
I downloaded Arachne 1.70 (DOS), and tried it against (a local copy of) the FreeDOS.org redesign. Looks okay, except that PNG graphics are not supported. The "marble" pattern doesn't exist, and the banner graphic and "download" button are not displayed. Screenshots are here:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Hall
Luchezar Georgiev wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 04 08:17:30 +0100 (BST), Michael Bernardi wrote: Given that this is the FreeDOS site, are you insuring it works for the DOS browsers? ie Arachne, Lynx, Net-Tamer, Doslynx etc. Mike Mike is right in my opinion. Take Opera into account too - it's set to mim

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Nickolas
At Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:44am +0100, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: > Hi, > > Jim Hall escribió: > > > The html errors you mention are "&" appearing in the news items - this > > is a result of laziness when I enter news items on the site. I'll > > have to clean that up, but it shouldn't cause y

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Jim Hall escribió: The html errors you mention are "&" appearing in the news items - this is a result of laziness when I enter news items on the site. I'll have to clean that up, but it shouldn't cause your browser to have problems. This is a common validation error on most sites. I kno

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Wed, 18 Feb 04 08:17:30 +0100 (BST), Michael Bernardi wrote: Wow, why are you using such an old browser? Are you using a Solaris desktop? (Even Solaris10 includes Netscape 4.x by default.) The top-5 browsers that access FreeDOS.org are IE (6 and 5.5), Netscape7, Mozilla (1.5 and 1.6), and Fir

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Bernardi
> From: Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi, when looking at http://www.freedos.org/freedos_new.php > > with Netscape 4.7x, either the [home] is blue on dark blue > > or - when I activate CSS and Javascript - all the links > > below the "Download FreeDOS" (e.g. the Mirror list,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Jim Hall
Leendert wrote: Looks great indeed, nice and clean! But please, keep those errors out of the HTML code. The page looks different on all my browsers. What about using this quickly recoded version as example? Doesn't have HTML errors and looks the same on any browser i tested. OK, i did this in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Leendert
Looks great indeed, nice and clean! But please, keep those errors out of the HTML code. The page looks different on all my browsers. What about using this quickly recoded version as example? Doesn't have HTML errors and looks the same on any browser i tested. OK, i did this in a few minutes,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Jim Hall
FreeDOS have evolved since then. Several of you (hi!) have helped me work on a new design and re-worked the appearance in order to make it easier on the eyes. We will soon replace the current FreeDOS.org site with a new version, which is currently in beta testing. .. Looks nice, except I prefe

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Jim Hall
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Found it, sorry: http://texturizer.net/firefox/ Also see that with current font face one can do nice things like: http://www.mozillazine.org/ but I still prefer the firefox link above. Just a suggestion, the guys at mozilla.org seem to have very good taste with web d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
>From: Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:50:29 -0600 > .. >FreeDOS have evolved since then. Several of you (hi!) have helped me >work on a new design and re-worked the appearance in order to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: > Found it, sorry: > http://texturizer.net/firefox/ Wow, this site makes my konqueror crash with a seg fault -- never seen this before. Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser --- SF.Net is sponsored by:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Found it, sorry: http://texturizer.net/firefox/ Also see that with current font face one can do nice things like: http://www.mozillazine.org/ but I still prefer the firefox link above. Just a suggestion, the guys at mozilla.org seem to have very good taste with web design... Aitor Aitor Santamar

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-17 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Looks great! Just one thing in cas the font face can also be improved: some days ago I seem to recall browsing a page on mozilla.org (not current cover) that had a VERY NEAT and SMOOTH typeface, would be great that it could be adopted too. Regrettably I CAN'T remember which page was that, anybod

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

2004-02-16 Thread Jim Hall
The current design of this site was created several years ago. It looked good at that time, and it still looks very nice, but both the web and FreeDOS have evolved since then. Several of you (hi!) have helped me work on a new design and re-worked the appearance in order to make it easier on the