These include
- Mail forms
- Content frames
- Tables
- Body copy
Mail forms
Rendering of mail forms has been updated so that a form looks nearly identical in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 as in Mozilla-based browsers. Previously there were noticeable differences.
In addition, mail form input fields were previously displayed with a fixed size. Now the size specified in the mail form wizard will directly affect the size that the input field appears in the front-end form. This comes at a possible loss of consistency, but with a gain in flexibility when the input field should be only a few columns wide.
Note that the "label" field type continues to allow input text unassociated with a particular input field, such as an introductory paragraph before a series of questions. The name is only slightly misleading.
Learn more about mail forms.
Content frames
I have noticed these spreading like wildfire! They are the frames you see wrapping the "Outage notifications" box on the ITS home page (see http://www.ndsu.edu/its ).
These were reported to look "weird" in IE6 so I have updated the appearance to be consistent across browsers. Now, only the heading declared with the Heading field of the page content form will be styled with borders; additional headings inserted with the Rich Text Editor will appear as regular body headers.
Learn more about content frames.
Tables
By popular request, two additional table styles are now available.
- Table with a hinted border
- Table with striped rows AND a hinted border
Please remember that these styles are for tabular data styling only. Regular body content should not be entered into a table for the sole purpose of achieving a border, per University Relations' Web design.
Body font
In keeping with the spirit of providing a similar appearance to all visitors, the font declaration for pages in CMS has been enhanced with Lucida Sans Unicode for Windows visitors and Bitstream Vera Sans for UNIX visitors. This will allow the majority of visitors to view pages in nearly identical font faces as Mac OSX visitors did previously (only an Apple-specific font, Lucida Grande, was specified).
If you view a Web page in CMS using a Windows PC, you will most likely see the page displayed using Lucida fonts.