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Re: [EP-tech] Style sheets in eprints
From: Tim Brody <tdb198 AT ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:08:10 +0100 (BST)
| Threading: | ↑ Re: [EP-tech] Style sheets in eprints from support AT eprints.org • This Message |
Just a thought on different browser "front-ends". Could the same ↵ facility for multiple-languages be used to provide alternative visual front-ends (including browser oddities)? Probably depends, I suppose, on whether your concept is embedded languages or embedded content... Just adding to the "love" :-) All the best, Tim. On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, ePrints Support wrote: > The other problem I've encountered is that Netscape 4.7 under Linux (not ↵ tested > under windows yet) will only allow you to enter LATIN-1 (ie western europe ↵ chars) > It will render UTF-8 just fine and even encode LATIN-1 chars into UTF-8, ↵ just > no Kanji(sp?) input for netscape 4 users.. > > Which should give you an idea of the level of love we're putting into this ↵ damn > thing <grin> > > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:49:28PM +0100, Bob Kemp wrote: > > Thanks Chris, that worked. I'd already got the stylesheet in ↵ 'static', and > > inserting "/" was the key - should have thought of that. > > > > Eprints2 will be interesting - from this and your earlier posts it ↵ sounds > > like you're doing a lot. Not sure that being able to configure style ↵ sheets > > for each browser is what I want, although I see the attraction. I ↵ suppose > > I'd rather browser producers got their own act together - I know, ↵ pigs > > might fly.... > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bob Kemp > > > > At 02:14 PM 7/5/01 +0100, Christopher Gutteridge wrote: > > >I'd put the stylesheet in the 'static' dir then run ↵ 'generate_static' to > > >copy it accross into the 'html' dir. > > > > > >Then make the URL of the stylesheet "/eprints.css" so ↵ that it always looks > > >in the basedir of the site and not the current dir. > > > > > >Can you provide a live URL we can have a look at, if you still ↵ have problems. > > > > > >eprints2 is being desgined to use stylesheets ALOT. I'm testing ↵ this with > > >netscape, mozilla & IE under Linux & Windows so it should ↵ look OK. > > > > > >It would be possible to add some code to give the option of a ↵ different > > >style sheet for each browser/platform to optimise each but this ↵ would be > > >more for the admin to maintain. Comments? > > > > > >All the <I> and <STRONG> should be replaced in ep2 ↵ with <SPAN > > >class="whatever"> > > > > > >Hopefully I'll have a live demo server up soonish (end of July, ↵ *hopefully*). > > > > > >On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:10:06PM +0100, Bob Kemp wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm having a problem getting our nascent eprint archive ↵ here at > > > Strathclyde > > > > to recognise the CSS stylesheet I've set up. It works for ↵ the static pages > > > > without any problem, but doesn't render successfully for ↵ the rest of the > > > > site. The insertion of the link reference in the html in ↵ SiteInfo.pm seems > > > > to be OK as this is successfully rendered in the html - the ↵ problem is > > > > presumably in the location and url of the stylesheet. > > > > > > > > If anyone out there has managed to use style sheets ↵ successfully, I'd be > > > > interested to know exactly how, including what directory ↵ they put the > > > > stylesheet(s) in, and whether they used a relative or ↵ absolute url in > > > > SiteInfo.pm. And if I'm barking up the wrong tree ↵ altogether I'd be > > > glad to > > > > hear about that as well... > > > > > > > > Thanks everyone, > > > > > > > > Bob Kemp > > > > > > > > Dr Bob Kemp > > > > Information Officer, Digital Information Office > > > > Centre for Digital Library Research > > > > University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NS > > > > > > > > DIO website: http://dio.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ > > > > > > > > Phone: +44 (0)141 548 2379 FAX: +44 (0)141 548 ↵ 2102 > > > > > >-- > > >Christopher Gutteridge -- cjg AT ecs.soton.ac.uk -- +44 (0)23 ↵ 8059 4833 > > >100,000 Syrian footmen, followed by 27,000 who are all crushed by ↵ a wall > > >(I Kings 20:28, 29, 30) > > -- > > Christopher Gutteridge support AT eprints.org > ePrints Technical Support +44 23 8059 4833 > > Tim Brody Computer Science, University of Southampton email: tdb198 AT soton.ac.uk Web: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/
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