Tuesday, December 21, 2004

HS Bio Textbook Report

Just about done with the styling of the reports. Today I modified the CSS to use @media declarations so I could include both a print and screen style for each document. Shared styles are currently located in an @media print, screen ... but this causes Nav 4.x to ignore the styling. Not a horrible result by any means, and Nav 4.x is a fairly small percentage of our regular traffic these days. Plus it gives me a good idea of what the reports look like without any styling at all.

I still need to check on the Mac to make sure no major problems are encountered.

One last element to add to the instructional analysis template, the indicator text. I have some ideas I want to toy around with. I also thought of a decent compromise on inclusion considering the variability of whether the indicators are addressed from one report to another. I'm waiting to hear back on the final decision in the meantime.

Update 2004-12-21: Finished testing on the Mac. Looks good on Firefox, Safari, and Mozilla-based browsers (Navigator 6+). IE works about as well as Nav 4.x. I have no intention of addressing the issue, however, since IE is a dead browser on that platform (unless we get complaints about it).