http://www.webmproject.org/ inaccessible at low resolutions

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Shadow2531

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May 27, 2010, 11:50:21 AM5/27/10
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Could someone please fix <http://www.webmproject.org/>? The left side
of the page is inaccessible at < 1024 x 768 (800 x 600 for example),
which makes the site unusable.

(It has to be some common css that Google uses on their sites as the
same problem happens on Vemo-branded pages on youtube)

Thanks

At <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2010-May/
026509.html>, it was mentioned what the problem is:

"It looks like it's using the old (and pretty buggy) hack of using
negative margins and absolute positioning of 50% to align the site in
the middle, and like you've seen, it breaks very easily.

Can be fixed by removing the positioning and margin and replacing it
with margin: auto;"

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Mike Shaver

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May 27, 2010, 11:51:16 AM5/27/10
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Shadow2531 <shado...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone please fix <http://www.webmproject.org/>? The left side
> of the page is inaccessible at < 1024 x 768 (800 x 600 for example),
> which makes the site unusable.

There's an earlier thread about this on the list; Lou said that fxes
will go live today.

Mike

Shadow2531

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May 27, 2010, 11:57:40 AM5/27/10
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On May 27, 11:51 am, Mike Shaver <mike.sha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Shadow2531 <shadow2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could someone please fix <http://www.webmproject.org/>? The left side
> > of the page is inaccessible at < 1024 x 768 (800 x 600 for example),
> > which makes the site unusable.
>
> There's an earlier thread about this on the list; Lou said that fxes
> will go live today.

Awesome! I'll watch for them.

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Shadow2531

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May 27, 2010, 1:22:38 PM5/27/10
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It looks fixed now. Thanks.

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Lou Quillio

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May 27, 2010, 11:57:29 PM5/27/10
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Shadow2531 <shado...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks fixed now. Thanks.

Yes, should be fixed as of this morning (US Eastern). Sorry about
that; was bothering me, too.

https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/group/webm-discuss/browse_thread/thread/99541c226550d0f1#

Interesting how few breakage reports there were (meaning < 1000px w
viewports) since, at the same time that desktop displays have gotten
huge, netbook and handheld displays are proliferating. Thankfully the
early WebM audience was sitting (mostly) at workstations and nicer
laptops.

Anyhow, guess I own the CSS now. Time to refactor.

$ git fetch ; git rebase origin/master ; ...

LQ


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