[news.eclipse.technology.phoenix] Re: top Navbar tabs

[Kim Moir <kmoir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Denis,

What approach would you suggest for people who need to use the Phoenix 
code on a local mirror?  Copy it to a central location on the mirror. 
In the php, set a condition that if the hostname is not eclipse.org, use 
the copy, otherwise point to the eclipse.org version?

Kim



that people use who need to use the Phoenix code on a local mirror an

Eclipse WebMaster (Denis Roy) wrote:
> Here are some thoughts:
>
> 1. Your CSS files have local paths:
> http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/I20060620-1010/test/stylesheets/visual.css 
>
> #header {
>     background-image: url(C:/junk/header_bg.gif);
>     background-position: top left;
>     background-repeat: repeat-x;
> }
> #searchbar {
>     background-image: url(C:/junk/searchbar_bg.gif);
>
> 2. The same stylesheet has URLs that are relative to www.eclipse.org, 
> but because you're running this on download.eclipse.org (and the various 
> IBM fullmoons), they don't work:
> background-image: 
> url(/eclipse.org-common/themes/Phoenix/images/leftnav_bullet.gif);
>
> 3. I'd highly recommend not placing eclipse.org-common, nor your 
> stylesheets inside the build directory, as you'll be duplicating a whole 
> bunch of files for each build, and fixing an issue with the page layout 
> will be a time-consuming chore.
>
> D.
>
>
>
>
> Haytham Yassine wrote:
>
> > Hi, I can't manage to seperate my top Navbar list into tabs as in the
> > eclipse.org main page. I tried copying the whole code of the eclipse.org
> > page to try and see if the tabs appear correctly and it didn't work 
> > either.
> > Do you have any idea about what might be causing this?
> > http://fullmoon.ottawa.ibm.com/downloads/drops/I20060620-1010/test/
> >
> > -Haytham Y.