Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Offenstein wrote: Recommend using strong as opposed to b in the interest of semantic markup. There are plans to deprecate the i and b tags because they're not semantic, they're presentational. FWIW: b and i are not deprecated in existing markup languages, and there are no such plans on

Re: [css-d] A weird CSS problem in IE7

2008-03-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Usamah M. Ali wrote: 'm having a weird CSS behavior that is happening only in IE7. It's a box that having rounded corners on both top-left bottom-left sides. The problem is that one of the rounded corner images always jumps off its original place and spans into

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: What about using the ID class selector bug or the last class bug. http://www.brettschultz.com/ie6_exhibit_a.html IE8 in IE5 quirks mode is showing the last test Aqua. and first and second test red. IE6 will show red, red,

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Alex Robinson
You now have your quirks mode documents with no doctype. If I put in a quirks mode doctype (HTML 4.01 Transitional, no url) then IE8 behavior in those two cases changes. It sees the *+html, as with a standard doctype, like the X-UA IE=8 or 7 overrode the quirks mode of the document. This is more

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Cynthia Villegas

2008-03-09 Thread David Laakso
Cynthia Villegas wrote: I happen to be following this post closely, since Phoebe seems to have all the questions I had. I validated all my pages, with the validate site, both html css, fixed many mistakes I have and learned a lot! (the only thing that didn't pass the validation was the

Re: [css-d] A weird CSS problem in IE7

2008-03-09 Thread Usamah M. Ali
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't provide much as a context; a url or minimised test case perhaps ? A screenshot is hard to debug. Intuitively, I'd say, give the parent (.searchbox) 'layout' and see if that helps. Philippe ---

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread David Laakso
Phoebe Taylor wrote: re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ Sure, I'd be up for it. :) Just let me know what the challenge is... Phoebe OK. Some random CSS suggestions. First off, you have done exceptionally well with CSS. Please accept this, not as criticism of your effort,

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-09 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Avoiding spam isn't possible indeed. But as i said to try limit a bit of spam attack. Maybe using an image with the e-maildress instead of a clicking link Anyway, i'm sorry if i waisted your time David. You did not waste my time. And I appreciate your comment. I

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Alex Robinson wrote: I've added a second quirks mode to both the iframe demos and the hack filters. As you said, the HTML4 without a URL provokes the expected quirks behaviour with regard to * html. http://local.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua

[css-d] CSS Workflow Question

2008-03-09 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
I'm just curious to know what % of people (A) do their HTML/XHTML first completely before styling it, versus (B) those who do HTML CSS at once. I am A/B split about 25% / 75%. I'm also curious to know what % of people (C) do their layout first in Photoshop (or receive image filesto be converted

Re: [css-d] a picture with in a picture

2008-03-09 Thread Rafael
David Hucklesby wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:59 -0600, Rafael wrote: T wrote: [···] Use .png for the frame, cos it has excellent transparency support. Yet another reason not to use it: PNG images don't work in IE6 (and, although we all regret this, IE6 is still the

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad#comment-6499 All I want is a stand alone IE8 in super duper standard mode. We now have to support: 1. The real IE5 (optional) 2. The real IE6 3. The real IE7 and one of the following. 4a. IE8 Standard mode 4b. IE7 Strict

[css-d] having problems with suckerfish menus

2008-03-09 Thread vincent pollard
here's the url: http://www.ithinkx.co.uk/itac/ i'm not sure why but th dropdowns appear very erratically in IE. it's fine in everything else. sometimes they disappear. -- Vincent Pollard http://www.ithinkx.co.uk __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread Phoebe Taylor
re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net The addition of: html { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; } to the CSS file may help the short page shift.(if it even bothers you, or your client-- it drives me nuts but I'm a little whacked anyway) [1] Okay, I like this. I didn't notice the 'short

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/03/09 17:09 (GMT-0500) Phoebe Taylor apparently typed: In general, using the shorthand in my code has been a good thing, but seems to be conditional too. Like trying to put bold in the { font: 125% #000 bold } seems to make the text less bold than it is if it is on a tag line by

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad#comment-6499 All I want is a stand alone IE8 in super duper standard mode. We now have to support: 1. The real IE5 (optional) 2. The real IE6 3. The real IE7 and one of the following.

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread David Laakso
Phoebe Taylor wrote: re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ In general, using the shorthand in my code has been a good thing, but seems to be conditional too. Like trying to put bold in the { font: 125% #000 bold } seems to make the text less bold than it is if it is on a tag line

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:49:17 -0400 David Laakso wrote: Phoebe Taylor wrote: re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ Sure, I'd be up for it. :) Just let me know what the challenge is... Phoebe OK. Some random CSS suggestions. First off, you have done

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: http://css-class.com/images/gunlang.png You wouldn't have used display:table any where perhaps? Yes, and I wouldn't dream of making changes until IE8 is fixed and stable. It's the browser that's broken, not the design. If they are serious about CSS 2.1 support, then it

Re: [css-d] A weird CSS problem in IE7

2008-03-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Usamah M. Ali wrote: About havingLayout, doesn't IE7 need it? I thought hasLayout becomes redundant in IE7, am I mistaken? Oh, it definitely needs it, in different ways than IE 6 sometimes, but 'hasLayout' is not dead in IE7. IE8 will be anther story

Re: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for

2008-03-09 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 09/03/2008, at 6:40 AM, Karl Hardisty wrote: A comparison of usage before and after is generally a good idea. If a site design changes, and suddenly a certain type of browser/platform combination drops off markedly, there's probably a good reason. However it may also pay to check

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-09 Thread Luc
Good evening David, It was foretold that on 09/03/2008 @ 12:55:21 GMT-0400 (which was 13:55:21 where I live) David Laakso would write: You did not waste my time. And I appreciate your comment. I just do not have time to respond properly to why I do not think setting text in an image,

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-09 Thread Rafael
David Laakso wrote: Luc wrote: David , just a quick remark: wouldn't it be better to use another alternative for the e-mail? Just to try to limit a bit of spam attack... off-list reply *** I am not sure what a spam attack has to do with the nature and purpose of the

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-09 Thread David Laakso
Rafael wrote: Well, let's try to bring it back in topic. What I've done is to add some del elements with no-spam legends, hiding them later on with CSS (and using JS to make it an actual link). This may not be the best approach, but it's, like everything else, just another try

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-09 Thread Rafael
David Laakso wrote: Rafael wrote: Well, let's try to bring it back in topic. What I've done is to add some del elements with no-spam legends, hiding them later on with CSS (and using JS to make it an actual link). This may not be the best approach, but it's, like everything

[css-d] Hover not working in IE

2008-03-09 Thread Marcy Schaller
CSS newbie here, in the beginning stages of working on a site for my dad... I have the navigation div set up so a green dotted border appears on hover. This works in Firefox, but not in IE7. Both HTML and CSS have passed validation. Site posted at: home.comcast.net/~mschaller/dad/index.html

Re: [css-d] Lines clipping in Explorer, and width issue

2008-03-09 Thread Dave M G
CSS-d, I realise I didn't include a link to the actual page when I posted my question: http://aimashou.jp/home_page My questions are as follows. I hope someone can help because I really can't seem to solve these two issues on my own. If you look here, you can see how the page should look in

Re: [css-d] Hover not working in IE

2008-03-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Welcome to css-d. Marcy Schaller wrote: I have the navigation div set up so a green dotted border appears on hover. This works in Firefox, but not in IE7. Both HTML and CSS have passed validation. Site posted at: home.comcast.net/~mschaller/dad/index.html A thin dotted border doesn't