Shaun Cutts

It used to be that element heights (header/body/footer) were set explicitly. They seem not to be anymore, but the code depends on this, I think.

For instance: ``` _bodyShellHeight() { // calclulate the height of content except contents of body var headerStyle = this._actualHeaderStyle(); var bodyStyle = this._actualBodyStyle(); var footerStyle = this._actualFooterStyle(); var _N =...

Do you know why the header & footer are set to 0 height? I could go down to look at cell height. What I haven't figured out is how the...

In chrome seems to figure out height of header despite css. But gets confused in different ways in both safari and firefox... I'll try to look more carefully at it...

(came back up after brushing teeth :) ) hmm.. so what is now happening in firefox is that header (for scroll example) or header & footer (for overview table) are...

hmm.... http://www.tads.org/t3doc/doc/htmltads/tables.htm ... seems that height is proportioned according to min-height (which will be content height). But ... is this a good idea? I guess the first question should be:...

(Other possibility perhaps is to draw with overall height auto & table layout with no body, then measure & calculate body height, then set body height and also overall height...

anyway -- now really to bed.

> Measurement techniques don't deal with outer size changing in future. Eg in > a draggable split pane. That is true -- but in any case we need to do...

An idea: Position all three elements "absolute" with header and footer using top:0 and bottom:0 respectively. Body would be in container with transparent background and padding so that header and...