[pydotorg-www] Grid for python.org (Was: Website formatting problem)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p at python.org> wrote:
> * anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter <p at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> > * anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>:
>> > > I wonder if grid based layout would fit python.org? Do anybody have
>> > > experience with that?
>> >
>> > I/we have some experience with http://960.gs/. Very nice also with
>> > http://adapt.960.gs/. Good for mobiles.
>> >
>>
>> Nice. I was evaluating which framework to choose. Do you think it can solve
>> this particular problem with calendar on python.org or will just make the
>> matters worse?
>
> Without having looked at it closer I think using ANY framework will not solve
> the problem. You'd end up barking up the wrong tree.
>
> The problem seems to be located with current CSS settings a particular
> browser, here Chrome.
>
> The right way [tm] to handle this is to use a reset.css and then build
> everything from scratch. You don't want to do that with the current website.
>
> But if I were to code the CSS for the new python.org site I'd use a reset.css
> in any case. It set the ground for equal CSS interpretation in all browsers.
> That's something you can build from. Anything else will get you in trouble.

Thanks. IMO http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/  should be added
to python.org regardless of PSF
redesign plans.
--
anatoly t.