Re: [css-d] Yelp!!

[Mark Wonsil]

 Where's Lady Gaga when you need her!?


In Quirks mode?
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Re: [css-d] bemstrongi tags

[Mark Wonsil]

Skip after Sarah:
 I do consistently use em for emphasis and reserve i for foreign language
 words. And cite for book titles. But since this is a CSS list, all I'll
 say is that CSS offers little here unless you decide you prefer to boldface
 book titles or something like that. This really is about markup not
 appearance.

But if you ever wanted to change the appearance of all foreign words,
you're now on a search-and-replace mission where if you mark it up to
begin with, you can change it in one line.

Even if you have two versions of em, you can add a class to make
them the same or different.

em vs. em class=veryImportant

FWIW,

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Re: [css-d] Noscript tags and degradation

[Mark Wonsil]

 1. Does anyone see anything fundamentally wrong with this approach? (We
 could make this an include, as well, for good form, but I'm trying to stick
 to simple nuts and bolts here.)

 2. Can someone suggest an approach they might think is superior?

I like the idea of using progressive enhancement instead of graceful
degradation. It's goal is the same but you start simple and add
functionality for those who can use it. It approaches the issue from
the opposite direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

This is one of the ways to add JS as needed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtrusive_JavaScript

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Re: [css-d] u/u - why did it have to die?

[Mark Wonsil]

 Abbreviation:  Mr.
 Acronym:  SCUBA
 Initialism:  FBI

 I don't see the distinction between acronym (which I understand), and
 initialism (which sounds like a made up word). Both are acronyms. Acronyms,
 depending upon the coined usage, is either pronounced as a word or as
 individual letters. The difference in which, is usually (but not always)
 based on whether it has a word form to it.

 APA ... pronounced A-P-A
 AMPA ... pronounced Am-Pa

 Both are acronyms as far as I am concerned.


FWIW, Grammar Girl did a podcast on this:

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/acronyms-grammar.aspx

which references: http://juicystudio.com/article/abbreviations-acronyms.php

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Re: [css-d] Refresh image in header...

[Mark Wonsil]

 Is it possible, through CSS, to have the image in a header change when
 the user refreshes or re-enters the page?

No, not in CSS directly but you can call a PHP script from within your CSS:

#randomImage {
background: url(./rotate.php) no-repeat;
width: 510px;
height: 268px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

Where the PHP script is available at alistapart.com:
http://www.alistapart.com/d/randomizer/rotate.txt

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