Thursday, October 11, 2007

Floats Wrapping Priority - Internet Explorer vs Firefox

I ran into this problem while trying to make the PageLayer toolbar to behave properly.

The toolbar is a collection of float left divs containers (toolsets) embedding other float left divs (buttons / links). In a way, it has an onion skin structure: floats inside floats inside ... floats.

The problem is, as you can see in the screenshot, about priority: Firefox makes the outer divs wrap first (what you expect), Internet Explorer makes the inner divs wrap first (what you execrate).



I could not find much help online as it appears not to be a very well known problem (?).

The (very bad) solution I have got so far is to "clear right" the innermost divs which has for effect to make the containers (toolsets) to wrap properly but to lock the cleared divs: they do not wrap anymore in IE.

As anyone worked out a good solution for this problem? I'd like to hear about it!

Friday, October 05, 2007

PageLayer's Inline Image Editor

Here is a short video demonstration of the image crop/resize feature in PageLayer. That sort of manipulation usually requires an extra software as Photoshop to get the image right before integrating to the webpage. In PageLayer all of this is done inline, directly in the web page. Have a look at the video and go have a try with the demo at http://www.pagelayer.com

Note: sorry for the french accent, I am working on that.