Re: [css-d] Print Stylesheets: Two-column, newspaper/book style - How?

Jeff Zeitlin wrote: > I 'edit' (for loose values of the word 'edit') a monthly PDF magazine. > When a new issue is released, the articles from the previous issue > become viewable on the magazine's website. [snip] > I'm reluctant to do major hacking on the HTML; I'd prefer to stick to > ju

Re: [css-d] Re : IE8, CSS 2.1 & page-break-inside: avoid problem

Stéphane Carnot wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Sorry, i was on holidays :-) > > First, thanks for your help. > But it doesn't help much. > I'm trying to use the 'page-break-inside : avoid'. The page-break-after is > not what i'm looking for. OK, you have test files, but we (or at least, I) still do not

Re: [css-d] CSS Not Validating

Duane Nelson wrote: > I'm of the validation persuasion, because I lack the "theory" behind CSS > and HTML. By validating my code, which I learned I need to do from this > list, I have a foundation to fix the display behavior. This PNG fix > only affected IE browsers below version 6. I tried a

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

Hoyd Breton wrote: > Matthew + Chris: Thank you for the quick replies. Yeap, I agree that in most > cases animations tend to be on the annoying/ pointless side of things; > however, I feel like slideshows have become a bit commonplace on portfolio > sites, going to give it a try and nix if it's

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

Hoyd Breton wrote: > Thanks for all the pennies, nickels and dimes. Cashing it all in. = ] > > I wanted to avoid the SWF route, not because all the hoopla but more as an > exercise to learn the javascript ropes a bit. Good man : "Flash ? Just say 'NO !'" :-) > http://starkshumble.com/test/ I

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

David Laakso wrote: > This: > html { > font-family : "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; > font-size: 80%; > } > > Becomes this [user friendly and shorter]: > html { > font : 100%/1.4 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; > } With the greatest respect, your dislike for the fonts which M

[css-d] list-style-value

With list-style-type: decimal, and within an unordered list, I would like to be able to specify the list-style-value, but no such property seems to exist. Is there a well- known solution to this problem, please ? Philip Taylor __

Re: [css-d] list-style-value

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > generated content ? > Someone sent me this example page a few days ago: > > > Or else: html5 has a start attribute, last I checked. >

Re: [css-d] learning html5

I really think that before anyone gets too enthusiastic about jumping on the HTML 5 bandwagon, they should take a step back and consider some of the problems that are emerging. I would recommend taking a considered read of the following : http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20008935-264.htm

Re: [css-d] Why no image overflow error?

Brian M. Curran wrote: > My question is: So, why does the image with the box that it sits in seem to > be within the div? Shouldn't my CSS or HTML fail to validate, because of an > overflow problem? No. Validation is concerned with syntax, not with semantics. Philip Taylor __

Re: [css-d] browser reports please

Chris Blake wrote: > Yes, I am sure it's not w3c compliant at the moment but I > will look into that if I can get things working. It might be a bit > backwards but 6 errors isn't too many, Dear Chris -- With the greatest respect, one error is too many, not for reasons of pedantry but simply bec

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

Oh, that is /desperately/ slow, Márcio : 23 seconds to complete loading. I am afraid I wouldn't be willing to wait that long in the real world. I really think you need to reduce the complexity and increase the efficiency. Philip Taylor MEM wrote: > I would like to request your help, fo

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

OK, again not an answer to your real problem, Márcio, but as a visitor I would expect to be able to click on the "+" sign, not on the text, in order to expand the view. Philip Taylor MEM wrote: > Yes. :( I'm thinking about ajax, and image size reduction. > Maybe that will do it. > > But

Re: [css-d] Use of empty DIVs?

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > Why XHTML? > > If a DIV isn't closed, it's not valid [X]HTML; it should get a > failing grade. > > The classes and IDs can be used later when the CSS is modified. I have to say, I'm more-or-less with Chris on this one. An unclosed DIV is no better a

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

MEM wrote: > Thanks for point out some issues here and there, they are more then > welcome. :) I have a life to learn about this. :D OK, then another one :-) When I click on the first "+", it expands (reveals) that region; when I click on the second "+", it expands (reveals) that region; but w

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

MEM wrote: > Yes. :) The reason why we cannot have all expanded it's because, if we > have all expanded the "portfolio 100% height cool effect" is lost. OK, but will your visitors think it "cool" ? Or would they prefer to have control over what is concealed and what is revealed. As one potent

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

MEM wrote: > Well, here I would say, that I will be very angry as well, but on one > condition, if, for some reason, it was important to have (for > cross-data proposes or something else), access to both information at > the same time. > I cannot see a reason for doing so on this context. (that

[css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

If I have a page such as the following : http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> Armenian test BODY {font-family : "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif} Եւ երկիր էր աներևոյթ և անպատրաստ. և խա

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Chris Blake wrote: > Hi, > > What about using CSS3 web fonts > http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ? > Upload the font you want, it will generate all the different types, link > to them using the @fontface thing and bingo - they don't need that font > on their system. > > or am I dread

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Michael Adams wrote: > Would it help to create a page with all the Unicode chars in the range you are > using and ask who can see how many based on font selections on a per > paragraph basis. For *my* Linux "Nimbus Roman No9 L" may be a well populated > serif font and "Nimbus Sans L" as sans ser

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Chris Blake wrote: > > On 13/07/2010, at 6:38 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: >> [T]he CSS fallback mechanism was formulated at a time when Unicode >> was not yet prevalent, and does not seem to have evolved to >> cope with the need to have greater cont

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Michael Adams wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 23:02, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> I think that there is a great deal of unintentional racism in >> the US-English-centric web that we use today, but the last time >> a group of us tried to raise this

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > A modern OS / browser will do the job for you. [snip] Thank you, Phillipe : a very interesting summary. It is certainly useful to know what the behaviour of most current rendering engines is, but of course unless it is actually enshrined in the specification, one

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > What I describe is actually the expected behaviour per CSS 2.1 /3-fonts… OK, even better news :-) Very many thanks. ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] browser reports please [blakeys]

Tim Climis wrote: > http://www.uselessgeography.com/ The masthead graphic (and perhaps other elements) doesn't/don't scale with Ctrl +/-, so unfortunately horizontal scrolling is forced above a fairly modest degree of zoom. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

fantasai wrote: > Was there something else you wanted? Dear Fantasai : many thanks for demonstrating that I was incorrect in my belief that the font-fallback mechanism has not evolved over time; I am extremely pleased that this is the case. As to whether there is anything else in this area tha

Re: [css-d] I need a good scripted font

Felix Miata wrote: > For ideas on what people have: > http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml This is a very useful resource, Felix, but a comment and a question : 1) The "Platform" icon completely passed my notice. I am not a native speaker of Iconish, and w

Re: [css-d] I need a good scripted font

Ah, please forgive me : I thought it was your work. Philip Taylor Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/07/15 09:25 (GMT+0100) Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) composed: > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> For ideas on what people have: >>> http://www

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Usually you don't even know if the user has the font activated or not... :-). This is a little off-topic for CSS-D, but still pertinent, so I hope the question will be acceptable to most : is it possible, using JavaScript or otherwise, to interrogate the DOM to fin

Re: [css-d] id and class selectors

TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: > Thank you for this article, I found it a good reinforcement of using id's and > class's. > I have a questions on styling lists and links in a div. > I have been styling lists using id's > example > #div ul > #div li > #div li a > #div li a:hover > I fo

Re: [css-d] Inline Style

John Dick wrote: > How do you style the following using inline style: > > p:first-letter > { > color:#ff; > font-size:xx-large; > } > HTML is as follows: > > > You can use the :first-letter pseudo-element to add a special effect to the > first character of a text!

Re: [css-d] Inline Style

John D wrote: >> Well, you can, but not using a pseudoelement and inline CSS. Why would you >> be restricted to inline CSS? > > Because Google Websites (http://sites.google.com) does not allow editing of > headers to introduce external style sheets or header styles. That is the > problem. It i

Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > Why do you want a link to the current page? > > Remove the tags and style it differently. Whilst I cannot answer for the original enquirer, the most common reasons for wanting to link to the current page are : For consistency (all pages have a consistent

Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

Intrigued :-) What handles the #IF/#ELSE/#ENDIFs ? ** Phil. David Hucklesby wrote: > David Laakso has given an excellent solution. But I respectfully > disagree that SSI cannot be used. Here is a demo I made for a student > who wants to do that very thing. I hope it helps: > > http://web

Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

Ah : I see the article is entitled "Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes" -- is the same functionality available in all SSI processors, do you know (for example, in IIS) ? ** Phil. David Hucklesby wrote: > On 8/2/10 12:26 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster,

Re: [css-d] 3D Color prism - 216 colors (Windows safe colors)

Fascinated that there is "Lime" but not "Green", Alan; is this intentional ? Philip Taylor Alan Gresley wrote: > Hello List, > > Initially being an exploration into mathematics and sacred geometry, > what I have discovered (like many others) is that hexadecimal colors > can be represented

Re: [css-d] How do you identify a capable UI designer?

Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > My colleagues suggested that perhaps front end people only use tools? > I.e. nobody actually writes HTML by hand anymore? Speaking as a former webmaster, I would not consider employing anyone who could not write HTML & CSS using Notepad (or the platform equiv

Re: [css-d] 0pt is wrong, right? And IE9 is doom, right?

Nancy wrote: > Two unrelated questions. > 1. > I am working on a website that can be edited by a variety of users using a > web-based CMS. > > The CMS is rewriting inline style property values of zero. > > For example, if the inline style is entered as: > whatever text > > LiveWhale rewrites it a

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

Why not try the alternative : Philip Taylor Keith Purtell wrote: > Well, the validator was a huge help. Two problems I ran into: > > 1- It did not like the way I imported my style sheet. I thought my tag >

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

Well, I'm not sure if their recommendation was grounded in fact, but it does look as though the memory of what they actually proposed must have faded with the years, because :

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: >> Fwiw, it is usually best to use a strict doctype for a new site. > > > Why? Because it will help you (the page author) identify out-of-date and/or deprecated practices (if you validate the page, but not otherwise, unless your authoring tool is DOCTYPE sensitive

Re: [css-d] iPad font rendering in both orientations...

tedd wrote: I have one suggestion, however, if you want iPad owners to review a page, how about giving us something easier to type? The url "vze26m98.net/css-discuss/test-ipad.html" is a lot to type. Somewhat confused (not being an i- owner/user); if you read your e-mail on an I-pad (as I kn

Re: [css-d] Normalizing CSS inline breadcrumbs menus

Furthermore, I see no "mysterious gaps", Gabriele : http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/tests/Inline-lists.html Tested using Seamonkey 2.0.6 under Windows/XP;SP3. Philip Taylor Gabriele Romanato wrote: > A simple solution: > > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/08/jquery-normalizin

Re: [css-d] Normalizing CSS inline breadcrumbs menus

OK, then I suppose that Gabriele and I differ over the meaning of "mysterious" in "mysterious gaps". I was expecting a single space-of-the-line, but thought that Gabriele must be experiencing more in order for them to qualify as "mysterious". Presumably "white-space-collapse: discard" will remove

Re: [css-d] Out of the stone age

Lineberger, Scott wrote: Any and all suggestions are welcome. Well, before the list-police step in, this probably isn't the best place to ask (since it has nothing to do with CSS per se), but perhaps your server technology will allow you to dynamically add records, so the initial form can be

Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?

Chris Blake wrote: I disagree. There are ways to style forms, so why not!? Streamlined makes me think that you're talking about speed so maybe adding images and things isn't such a good idea in that sense but would make it look better. Ermm, google it - there's lots out there. 'styling forms w

Re: [css-d] Using efficient selectors?

Ville Viklund wrote: Is there a good reason to use this kind of selector "#header ul li a {...", instead of just "#header li a"? Is it considered best practice, or why this is so commonly used? I would venture a guess that it is commonly used because of a fairly widespread misunderstanding o

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello, I'm going to be submitting an article to a site, and I'd like to be technologically on par with it. This may be stretching the limits of this css list, but I looked at the site's css for images that the site is using that are working in a slideshow fashion, but I

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

Sorry, wrong line :-( Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello Duncan. That's what I was talking about, that is, the gifs that are animated. I likened them to a slideshow effect, but I didn't mean slideshow literally. I've never seen something like that before, hence my post. The other responder to my post seemed to say that

Re: [css-d] IE7 and IE6 Problem with Background-Image property using .png

Timariane Thornewig wrote: Here's how you can see the problem I'm experiencing in IE7: enter http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php (this site is particularly helpful for me because I'm on a mac) at that site in IE8, Render: http://www.ashelighting.com/architectural3.html I'm going to pas

Re: [css-d] Type sizes?

Claude Needham wrote: I have developed a practice of using 100% in the body and then using em elsewhere to set sizes. I have vague memories of doing this because the percentage handled a glitch in one browser or another. Can't recall the details now. Is this a case of age invented memories,

Re: [css-d] Managing import rules

Gabriele, I don't understand : In a past project I used the following approach: @import "base.css"; @import "layout.css"; @import "typography.css"; @import "colors.css"; The server-side developer (who used Ruby) encountered several problems when trying to merge these files properly and in the

Re: [css-d] Multiple select dropdown on a single line

Tod, could you draw a picture of what you are attempting to achieve ? Philip Taylor Tod wrote: I have the requirement to allow users to make multiple selections from a dropdown menu. However I need to accomplish this on a single line. - A traditional dropdown satisfies the single line r

Re: [css-d] suckerfish "sticky" highlight (hover) on nested LI/A

Resource Centre/PMO (which is the only 2nd-level item that appears to have children) remains highlit for me when selecting a child. Seamonkey 2.0.8+EMET, Win/XP;SP3. Philip Taylor Rob Emenecker wrote: > I have a suckerfish menu that I am trying to get the second-level element to > rem

Re: [css-d] Multiple select dropdown on a single line

effect, but not how you envisage it looking to the intending user. Philip Taylor Tod wrote: On 9/15/2010 3:44 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Tod, could you draw a picture of what you are attempting to achieve ? Philip Taylor Attached are two files, single.gif

Re: [css-d] Image scaling

Tim Climis wrote: Using a server side language (eg php, perl, asp, etc) to shrink images, and save them to the server. That way you shrink the image once and use it over and over again, rather than sending everyone who visits your site a big image (slowing page load) and then making their com

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

Chris Blake wrote: P.S. I need to be using sub-script and super-script a fair bit on this site, any warnings or words of wisdom about doing this? In my experience, sub- and superscripts only too easily destroy the regularity of the underlying text grid; in order to re-instate this regularity

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

Jukka K. Korpela wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: ex; That looks really cool and simple and seems to fix things nicely. How come I never thought of that? Don't know. What I /do/ know is that the problem drove me crazy until I hit on that idea. Are there any h

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

Chris, I have to be honest, I do not know what question(s) you are asking, IF you are asking "how should I enter EMW8 throughout my site so that it comes out consistently and with the 8 raised (and perhaps grey) without affecting anything else ?", I would propose something along the lines of the

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: One nitpick: I'd use 'em' instead of 'ex'. Some browsers have poor support for 'ex' (treating 1ex= 0.5em, whatever the font in use, no questions asked) - IE running on XP, Opera. Some browsers have half broken support - with very different computation of what it

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

Duncan Hill wrote: Off-Topic but for clarification RFC 4343 states that URL's are case-insensitive. I hate to be picky, but I really do not think that that can be the case. For a case-sensitive web server, the following two URLs are completely different : http://www.example.org/my-f

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

debussy007 wrote: Hi, I have a DIV element inside a TD element, and I try to get the DIV's height equal to the TD height. I'm not convinced that you can. Unless my brain is going screwy, there would be an infinite causal loop if you could, since the height of the containing TR, from which

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

David Laakso wrote: Lie! Cheat! Steal :-) ! And if the second TD doesn't contain the same contents as the first ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/Sites/tests/Laakso.html Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

David Laakso wrote: > > Don't be silly, Philip.. > The essence of my question was : what if the contents of the second div do not have the same natural height as the contents of the first ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/Sites/tests/Laakso-

Re: [css-d] How to link global.css to html page?

Ilham Firdaus wrote: I found a weirdness. I put the css file into separated file but located in the same directory as where the html page call the css file. But looks like there's no change in my browser displayed. Anybody would be so nice to tell me where my mistake? Thank you very much in

Re: [css-d] How to link global.css to html page?

Aren't these the and referred to, Tim : http://www.otekno.biz/ps";>Easy shopping ** Phil. Tim Arnold wrote: Also, it appears that none of the elements in your page are being targeted by your CSS. You have styles defined for "p" and "a" but there are no or elements in your page (w

Re: [css-d] Behind the CSS Scenery of My New Nested List

Brian M. Curran wrote: 1. wwwdotdomain.com/subitem1.html 2. wwwdotdomain.com/item2/subitem1.html 2., because "subitem1.html" could exist under multiple parents. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] ht

Re: [css-d] how can I align input and select elements

Ada Elgavish wrote: Does anybody have any ideas where I should look for the problem? I think that, as this is a CSS list, and as you have a CSS problem, you should share with us your CSS as well as your HTML; a little fragment of HTML, with no context and no CSS, is really of very little use

Re: [css-d] lots of validation errors, tables, and other things that we just love!

Changing the first two lines to : http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd";> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en" dir="ltr"> reduces the errors to nine and the warnings to one; you may be able to see the corrected version at http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/wor

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

Dear Ada -- Your page has seven errors [1]. Until you correct these, all behaviours are effectively random. Philip Taylor [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/Trial19.html Ada Elgavish wrote: Hello, I am developing a website at: http://138.26.120.126/CAMA

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

Ada Elgavish wrote: Dear Philip, Thanks again for introducing me to the Validation Service! I corrected all the mistakes detected by the validation service. Still have the problems below… Any help will be appreciated! You're very welcome, Ada, and congratulations on correcting the errors s

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

Dear Ada -- I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS Validator mean…; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them…I do understand, though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the vertical navigation spry. Would correcting these errors of syn

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

"G.Sørtun" wrote: "filter:alpha..." is proprietary Internet Explorer syntax/functionality. If it serves a purpose - makes IE behave as it should - it should be kept in the stylesheet no matter what the CSS validator "says". That is a philosophical perspective which you are perfectly entitled

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

Sorry, Ada, I am sure you are not interested in this digression : if you look at the Web-Consultants version, you will see that I have also made some improvements to the horizontal menu bar, but I am unclear what changes you would also like to make to the vertical one. Come on Eric : rule the re

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

Alan Gresley wrote: Philip. The document that Ada has it which you did some work is xthml traditional, has way to many divs and table elements. It has text-align:center for the container. This does center block elements in IE6 and IE7. The document basically caters for the lowest dominator, th

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

bruce.som...@web.de wrote: >> "Michael Geary"wrote: > >> That would also let Adobe present the BrowserLab UI in your own language >> instead of English if they support it (and it looks from the URL like they >> may have other languages besides English). > > That always annoys the daylights out o

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 96, Issue 6

Keith Purtell wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but does this mean leading is not normally applied to replaced elements, or that applying leading to the replaced element (in this case an img) would be correct procedure and avoid the need for the padding technique I used? Eric Meyer addresses this

Re: [css-d] archives link?

How's about : http://lists.css-discuss.org/mailman/private/css-d/ linked from http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d which is in your own message's fixed trailer ! Philip Taylor John wrote: Is there a link to use for searching archives of this lists' threa

Re: [css-d] Peculiar contraction

I think I was the one to use it first (recently); it is just a colloquial form of "how about", intended solely for humerous effect, and possibly modelled on the how the average speaker of believes that the average speaker of speaks ... ** Phil (native speaker of ). bruce.som...@web.de

Re: [css-d] Justify a banner to a column

"G.Sørtun" wrote: you have so many style-repetitions targeting the same elements that you better go through it all yourself and correct or delete the style that sets that bottom border in the first place. regards Georg And please : if you /must/ have a masthead graphic as opposed to a simpl

Re: [css-d] Outlook 2007 and DL/DD tag

Chetan Crasta wrote: Here is a detailed article on creating HTML emails: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters And here is a much shorter, much simpler one : just don't. Philip Taylor __ css-discu

[css-d] Visibility: hidden contingent on value of content or href attribute of inner element ?

A CMS, over which I have no control, auto-generates a number of the following blocks (with different values for the "href"s, "background-images", and the textual content of the innermost element) : http://www.photos.for-charity.org.uk/gallery/sandbox-3228

Re: [css-d] crashing redmond

Doesn't crash, but looks complete and utter c...@p in IE7 under Win/XP at Ctrl-0 size, but suddenly snaps into place at the first Ctrl-. ** P. David Laakso wrote: Signature link crashes IETester 6/7/8 on Mac OS X 10.4 running Parallels XP. I find this delightful and rather amusing:-) .

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: hasLayout triggering & best practice

David Laakso wrote: > PS It is not a list policy but bottom posting ... is appreciated. By some : others prefer to read what the respondent has to say, rather than having to wade through recycled material before learning anything new. Philip Taylor -- Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackber

Re: [css-d] crashing redmond

Felix Miata wrote: Any thoughts on this conversion from table layout exercise? orig: http://cornerstonebaptistofhc.org/about.html new: http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Tmp/cbchc-about-n.html Great to see Ephesians 2:20 as text, not graphic, but Philippians 2:5 deserves better ALT text than "pictur

Re: [css-d] [+] hasLayout triggering & best practice

Felix Miata wrote: Feel free to play elsewhere if list policy bothers you so much you feel unable to adhere to it. List policy doesn't bother me at all. Rules are for the guidance of the wise and the blind obedience of the foolish. Philip Taylor -- Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackber

Re: [css-d] CSS Templates 1: Outside The Box

Gabriele, why does "DOLOR" overlay "power of combining" when I reduce the width of the window ? Is that truly "fluid" ? Philip Taylor Gabriele Romanato wrote: Here's my first, basic test/demo: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/12/css-templates-outside-box.html comments are welcome,

Re: [css-d] CSS Templates 1: Outside The Box

Greg Wilker wrote: I'm interested in responses to this aspect: There are currently a lot of validation errors with the template; both css and xhtml. My personal rule of thumb is to get as close to validation as possible - shooting for perfect. Now and then I question the "strictness" of

Re: [css-d] Vendor prefixes and validation

Alan Gresley wrote: It's time now to drop the prefixes. Now if you wish to debate this, then please feel most welcome to subscribe to the CSS WG list. Not that you will stop anything. How are those not involved in the current discussion intended to interpret that last sentence, Alan ? Are w

Re: [css-d] Hanging drop cap

Not run-in (see http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/Gabriele/SS-1.jpg); was this intended ? Philip Taylor Gabriele Romanato wrote: > I don't know what vacations are: > > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/12/css-hanging-drop-cap.html

Re: [css-d] Three col faq

Tim Climis wrote: #left { float: left; width: 30%; } #right { float: right; width: 25%; } #center { margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 25%; min-height: 12em; /* min-height does not work in IE6 */ } The problem is surely in the replicatio

Re: [css-d] [html4all-conf] hgroup alternativ: long

Leif Halvard Silli wrote: When you say 'two or more unrelated effects', then I think we should discuss whether it *is* two unrelated effects. I don't really see that it is. OK, let me try to explain, based on your web page in which you raise this idea, and with some real TOCs to demonstrate

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

Not convinced you are doing your client any favours by using that : I have to zoom in by a factor of four before the glyphs stop breaking up :-( Seamonkey 2.0.11, Win/XP;SP3 @ 1152 x 864. Philip Taylor Rory Bernstein wrote: Hi, I am using a google-hosted embedded web font called Neuto

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

Rory Bernstein wrote: Thanks for the screenshots, Phillip. You're very welcome. What I find most disturbing is that the other font (the sans serif one) is not even showing up for you; it is rendering in some other font. (I'm talking about the grey, all caps items in the nav bar). How distu

[css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

I don't know if it is just a case of excessive nostalgia, but am I alone in thinking that the W3C CSS service is not what it once was (in terms of Q.A., that is) ? I ask because I have recently thrown a number of putatively CSS documents at it, the most recent being : http://jigsaw.w3.o

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

Alan Gresley wrote: What do you inspect to happen with embed font? The validator sees your CSS as junk. Why don't you try to validate as CSS3.

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

Alan Gresley wrote: What the validator sees it as is not my point; what I was expecting was a meaningful diagnostic, such as 2 Value Error : font-family Property font-family doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 but exists in CSS level 3 Firstly it treats this as valid CSS2.1. (snip) OK, but t

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

Before providing feedback, David, I am trying to establish whether there is a real problem or whether there is an error of perception. Which is why it would be nice to try and achieve consensus on this list as to whether or not the validator is behaving aberrantly before raising it with the W3C V

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

Alan Gresley wrote: Property src doesn't exist : url('../fonts/TitilliumText22L005-webfont.eot') url('../fonts/TitilliumText22L005-webfont.eot') Which is almost the same as you were seeking. No it's not : it's totally different. What I am seeking is a mention of this property "src" that doe

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