I'm using DNN 4.09 and learning about skinning by using the MinimalExtropy skin and creating new skins based on this default skin. I have these questions:
1. Just using the default MinimalExtropy skin, the default containers are rendering differently in FF and IE. As expected, FF renders the left and right panes using the largest space available to accommodate the text modules I've placed there. This means that when the content pane is empty, the left & right "fill in" to meet in the middle, so it appears as tho there are only 2 columns. In IE, the left and right panes seem to be of a fixed, very narrow, size, and in text modules placed on the left & right, the header text is cut off and text content wraps so that only 1 or 2 words appear on each line. This occurs whether or not there are any modules in the content pane. Any ideas?
2. The title of an Event in the Events Calendar (in Month View) renders differently in FF and IE. The title of an event spills over to the next day in FF, but in IE the text wraps within the day (amazingly as one would expect).
3. My final question is more for general information and understanding. I've read the DNN skinning whitepaper, the Beginning DNN Skinning & Design book, and whatever forums/blogs/documentation I can get my hands on, and I am trying to understand the correlation b/w the html and skin.xml files. I am comfortable with html & css, and I understand that when all zipped together, uploaded and parsed, a new ascx file is compiled and saved. I've commented-out several DNN tokens from my html and xml, but I still see references to these tokens when uploading and parsing. I imagine there should be a 1-to-1 relationship between the tokens used in the index.html and those in the skin.xml... does the order of their definition matter? Should the xml file define each token in the exact order in which it is used/defined in the html?
I greatly appreciate any help anyone can provide me. Thanks!