WebM website

[Jeremy]

I have visited the WebM website on IE, Firefox and Android browsers.
In all three cases, the formatting does not look right. There is no
padding on the left side and words are getting cut off by the
browsers' frame.

[Lou Quillio]

Thanks, Jeremy. I've seen it on Android. Will investigate and report back.

LQ

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[Jeremy]

This is happening when the site is opened in any browser in a window
that is smaller than 1000px wide. The problem is the negative value
for margin-left in your #main-container CSS:

#main-container {
position: absolute;
width: 1000px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -500px;
background-color: #fff;
}

On May 25, 6:06 pm, Lou Quillio <louquil...@google.com> wrote:

[Lou Quillio]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Jeremy <jeremy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is happening when the site is opened in any browser in a window
> that is smaller than 1000px wide.  The problem is the negative value
> for margin-left in your  #main-container CSS:
>
> #main-container {
>  position: absolute;
>  width: 1000px;
>  left: 50%;
>  margin-left: -500px;
>  background-color: #fff;
> }

Thanks, Jeremy. I'm working with a template author from outside our
group, so waiting for his opinion on a proper fix before voiding my
template warranty. ;) Sometimes web-devs have a reason to use
convoluted rules like those above. Other times they're just
artifacts.

My personal fix is like this ...

#main-container {
/*position: absolute;*/
position: relative;
width: 1000px;
/*left: 50%;*/
/*margin-left: -500px;*/
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #fff;
}

... and it works on all the renderers / devices I have on-hand tonight
(== everything on desktop Linux and OS X, plus N1). I'll find a
Windows box tomorrow and test IEx, then deploy if okay. Won't be
long.

[Lou Quillio]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Lou Quillio <louqu...@google.com> wrote:

> My personal fix is like this ...
>
> #main-container {
>  /*position: absolute;*/
>  position: relative;
>  width: 1000px;
>  /*left: 50%;*/
>  /*margin-left: -500px;*/
>  margin: 0 auto;
>  background-color: #fff;
> }

This should start propagating shortly.

[Lou Quillio]

Hi Tom,

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Tom <toch...@gmail.com> wrote:

> - The link to the webm-discuss list on the Play/users page is dead.

> - The Play/users page should be kept up to date, it still has the
> Chrome Early Access from May 24 as "coming soon".

Right you are. These fixes will propagate in an hour or so.

> - The Play/users page is only accessible through the "Play" section on
> the frontpage. It should be in the menu bar, like Create/tools and
> Build/code.

I agree 100%, but lost that fight to brevity concerns. (It's also
linked from /tools/ and /code/, which together with home was deemed
adequate.)

I'm going to add some drop-down navigation soon, and /users/ will be
included there. No doubt we'll step back and take a closer look at
everything over the next few weeks, now that we've survived the
launch.

Thanks for your help, and please report any similar concerns here as well.