[Zope-CMF] Subtle problem with skin cookies?

[Philip Glaser]

Hi,

Turns out that there _was_ an difference in browsers -- i.e. 5.0 versus 5.5.
The main_template gives the unselected <a></a> items the "plain" style. Well
there is no a.plain style! 5.0's reaction to this situation was to use _no_
style, which happened to be the look I needed. But 5.5 uses the div.tabs a
style in this case. I adjusted that style (and the corresonding contentTabs
one) in ploneStructure.css and now 'tsal good. All other browsers behave the
same way, so 5.5 is more in line with the standard behavior.

In other words: duh!

Regards,

Phil



>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-cmf-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-cmf-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
>Of Philip Glaser
>Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 11:35 PM
>To: List Zope CMF List
>Subject: [Zope-CMF] Subtle problem with skin cookies?
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm encountering a peculiar problem with skins in Plone. I began
>using Plone
>pretty much out of the box, and customized a skin. I got it to the point
>where it looked good, and someone else saw it from another system.
>So on two
>systems, using the same browser, everything was fine. Then I modified the
>look of the login page and in the process cut and pasted quite a bit. The
>login sequence works fine, and the skins look fine on the two machines that
>had seen the site before modifying the login pages. But on other systems,
>even with the very same version of the browser, there are some elements of
>the style that don't look right at all: there are borders where
>there should
>be none, and spacing and margins are way off. It's definitely the skin I
>created -- it's almost all there, except for these few important
>differences.
>
>I'm wondering whether my modification of the login pages might have messed
>something up with the way the cookies are set for the skin. So when I had
>the original login pages, some cookie got set correctly and so everything
>works fine. But on new systems that didn't get that initial cookie, things
>don't look quite right.
>
>My login page includes the following code at the beginning:
>
><div tal:condition="exists: here/portal_skins | nothing"
>     tal:replace="nothing">
>
>    <div tal:condition="here/portal_skins/updateSkinCookie | nothing"
>       tal:define="dummy here/setupCurrentSkin">
>    </div>
>
></div>
>
>Could I have done something wrong here?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>Philip Glaser
>Principal and Software Architect
>Sustainable Software Solutions, LLC
>glaserp@sustainsoft.com
>www.sustainsoft.com
>973-951-9522
>
>
>
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