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Foxy at w**k...

Thanks Ali

Tickettyboo...

Thanks Ali, never any wonder you were stuck for time, that's an awful lot
of w*rk gone into those stats

Ali...

It's not the volume opf posts that cause a problem, but silly things like
when the ntl server spewed up 968 old posts, which I didn't want to include
(again) in the stats. Getting rid of them involved making a list of *all*
the message-ids from 2005.

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Ta muchly Ali - looks like pmj is coming in at a gallop atm. :)

Rabbit...

He's a dark horse ;-)

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Another knight, but on a black charger then. :)

pmj...

LOL!
But my 449 Posts during that Month is still (about, roughly) less
than half the Number made by (each - both) of the 2 Posters who made
more Posts than me.
:-)

Ali...

Thank you :^)

Ali...

No, pure CSS.

Ali...

That's right

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

OK then - it's a trot and not a gallop. :)

BTW, Ali..
How come on that last Page (the one with the Number of Posts made
at various Times & on various Days), some of the Columns extend
*below* the (base?) Line

Ali...

Actually, the whole of the graph is below the baseline. It's all done with
CSS trickery on some nested divs. Take a look at it with no CSS. I don't
know why you are seeing some coming lower than others, they should all total
the same.

Also (in my Browser) at certain Sizes of Window, the last (rightmost)
Column (& in some cases several of the last Columns) of coloured
Bars/Pics jumps down to *below* the rest of them.

Ali...

There are 24

s all floated left, each with width: 4.166%; which
*should* fit withint their container at all sizes. Perhaps there is a

Ali...

Thanks for reminding me of that. I've now set the border (and padding, and
margins) explicitly to 0, and the problem is reduced, though not eliminated.
The hour divs have content, and in IE won't narrow beyond the content width;
in Firefox, the content overflows, and is overlapped by the next div. The
Firefox browser can be reduced to it's minimum width, and the graph still
fits in the available space.

default minimum width. I've now checked in IE, I can see the problem, but I
don't know why it's happening.

Ali...

I can change it, but not to any useful effect. I tried it at 3%, with no
different results to 4.166%, once the borders had been set to 0. (Except
that the innermost divs got narrower as their containers *should have* get
narrower, but didn't because of their content.

Tried negative margins, improved things in IE, but mucked up Ffx. Since IE
is alrady mucke up with the heights, I've set it back.

Ali...

I can get the IE window down to about 800 pixels wide before columns start
dropping off the edge, Firefox goes down to 108.

Hour 16 should start with a zero height beige div, and does in Firefox, but
it clearly has a non-zero height in IE.
Hours 3-7 should have some very short colour bars, as little as 2 pixels,
but they're all apearing with a minimum height, thus pushing the bottom edge
down too far.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, it obviously needs more work.

Ali...

No. Not today. But I'm digging .

Ali...

To do that graph as tables, I'd need a 1-row, 24-column outer table, and 24
8-row, 1-column tables inside it, which is one less

element than I used

s, plus 25 elements, and 193 elements, open *and* close.

Ali...

Well, since the Perl program writes the HTML as well, ReWriting's no
hardship, just changing the Perl pogrram.

Ali...

And *that* is why I've rewritten the Perl program to produce pages that use
CSS, so in future I can just alter stats.css and change the whole look of
the site. What do you think of aqua on lime, with darkviolet borders and a
fuchsia background :^). Each table now has its own id, so I can make
changes to one table's appearance without affecting the others.

I've now uploaded a slightly changed htnl file (hour 16 fixed), and an
altered graf.css (explicitly no border, and 4% width).

The minimum height problem needs research on the vagaries of IE.

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