Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout Alex Robinson wrote: This doesn't happen for me. It's very difficult to select any of the text, but the results you see just don't occur at my end. What platform are you on? I'm runnning OS X. I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Fi

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
Alex Robinson wrote: same is true in Mozilla 1.7.6, windows xp pro sp2 Right. So it seems to be a windows xp doodhah thing then. I haven't got time to properly investigate this at the moment. But it would be worth getting to the bottom of. Does the same thing happen on the borders or boxes

RE: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
y would do this - nice anti-theft device Alex! Regards, -Nigel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donna Casey Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:06 PM To: Alex Robinson Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] New article on

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> I can reproduce it consistently, and make nearly all the boxes disappear > simply by inserting my cursor at the beginning of any heading and > dragging through the content past the bottom of the box. If I keep > dragging downward, I can make all of the boxes (except the purple one) > scroll upwa

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Robinson
I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 with Firefox 1.07. Are you saying you didn't test this on Windows? No. I'm saying that I don't have access to a Windows box at the moment and that I can only use the OS X versions which obviously don't have the problem. Yes I obviously didn't test for this exa

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:05:32 -0400, Donna Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone else, since Alex needs confirmation? Donna Casey Wow. How'd you do that!?!?!? OS X FF 1.0.7 Don't see it in Safari or Opera 9pr1 Mac - under Tiger -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:15:55 -0400, Alex Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyhow, even if no one is up for doing the test case, can someone please say whether the problem occurs on either the boxes or the borders examples? Or even the simple unadorned one? Boxes did not act the same FF

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Al Sparber
From: "Alex Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes I obviously didn't test for this exact problem in this exact browser on this exact platform. Probably because the OS X and Windows XP version of Firefox gave the same behaviour so many times inn my repeated save reload rituals that I often would ch

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Alex Robinson wrote: What would be most useful is if someone with access to a Windows box and a bunch of Gecko-derived browsers could work on a simplified test case that shows what combination of nestedness, overflow: hiddens etc cause things to happen. Does the negative margins cause the probl

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Wilson
Donna Casey wrote: 1)http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/example/rounded 2) insert cursor just before text "Block2" in the green inner box As well, you cannot get the boxes back by reloading the page or hitting back button and returning, though you can click the exampl

RE: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
> Suggestion for a fix: remove the position: relative in .wrapper h2 Ingo's fix worked for me FF 1.0.4 on XP. -Nigel __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-d

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Robinson
Small testcase: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/fxselectbug.html Confirmed with Firefox 1.0.5 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711] Not scrolling/bug fixed in Firefox 1.5beta2 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006]

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
it doesn't appear to, Alex. I tried the steps on all of the examples and emailed you with the ones that it occurred with in FF and Mozilla 1.07 As for testing, if I had time, I would. I am happy to test any simple example you put up, though! just post and I'll get back to you to help as much a

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
Duckworth, Nigel wrote: Yep, exactly as Donna described. But...I can also make everything disappear by clicking on the little square box in the top right with the [x] in it. ;) Seriously though, who does this (besides us)? And is this "problem" unique to this method? I suppose someone wanting t

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
windows xp pro sp2, not osx Tom Livingston wrote: Wow. How'd you do that!?!?!? OS X FF 1.0.7 Don't see it in Safari or Opera 9pr1 Mac - under Tiger __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listi

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Robinson
I didn't mean to stir up trouble, I just thought you'd want to know. I didn't mean to cause the boxes to disappear at all - they just did for some reason and >I finally figured out what I must have done to cause it. Of course I wanted to know Donna. It's an excellent catch. Anything that impe

RE: [css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

2005-10-26 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
> well, except for the client that wants to be able to copy and paste > content from their site into whatever they want to use it in... it's > quite common for folks to copy/paste something, from an address to phone > number to entire paragraphs...and use it in other media, don't you think? Dar