Re: [css-d] Test on box-shadow and border-radius

2010-06-26 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Post your notes on my blog! Really interesting! :-) http://www.css-zibaldone.com http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) http://www.css-zibaldone.com/articles/ (English) http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/ (English) __

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

2010-06-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
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

2010-06-26 Thread John Franks
Hoyd, I would look to use Flash for this kind of thing. And there are some excellent tools out there which do all the coding for you. One fantastic one would be http://www.slideshowbox.com/ from JumpeyeComponents. They provide both a non-Adobe-Flash HTML version as well as an Adobe Flash

Re: [css-d] IE hacks - css conditions

2010-06-26 Thread Alan Gresley
Michael Adams wrote: A few years back i dropped conditional comments in favour of the CSS IE @import hack[1][2][3]. Now i find myself in a position where i want to send one thing to ie7 ie8 and another to all other browsers. What i want to do is give CSS rounded corners and opacity to

[css-d] background-color not working in IE7

2010-06-26 Thread John Franks
Got a strange one here my friends. Go to the following page to view my problem. http://www.mrskibbles.co.uk/virtuemart/sweet-categories/chews/black-jacks-chews/ My problem is with the order table that sits half way down the page in the main donut, where the user adds a sweet to their

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

2010-06-26 Thread Hoyd Breton
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. The solution that I opted with, and I'm using solution loosely here guys. Is that I used a slideshow that

Re: [css-d] background-color not working in IE7

2010-06-26 Thread David Laakso
John Franks wrote: Got a strange one here my friends. Go to the following page to view my problem. http://www.mrskibbles.co.uk/virtuemart/sweet-categories/chews/black-jacks-chews/ Thanks, John. Not exactly up for looking for a needle in a

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

2010-06-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
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 like

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

2010-06-26 Thread Theresa Mesa
You really should check out the CSS-based (a little bit of JavaScript) slideshows (and menus, among other things) at Project VII. See if there's anything there that would meet your needs. I have their menu builder, and the code validates. The customer service there is also awesome. I've gotten

[css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Brian M. Curran
Hello, Well, it's a beautiful evening here in NYC. It's quite hot, and it looks like a thunderstorm might break the heat. It's good weather to work on my website. ...So... Am I chasing a fantasy in trying to get these curly quotes to work in all the browsers? Here's my test page:

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread David Laakso
Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello, Well, it's a beautiful evening here in NYC. It's quite hot, and it looks like a thunderstorm might break the heat. It's good weather to work on my website. ...So... Am I chasing a fantasy in trying to get these curly quotes to work in all the browsers? Here's

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Jay Tanna
This is how I would do: http://jtanna.tripod.com/blockquote01.htm Check the source of above page and let me know if you have any questions. I have taken two paragraphs from your page and quoted above. hth --- On Sun, 27/6/10, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Well, it's a

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Brian M. Curran
Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello, Well, it's a beautiful evening here in NYC. It's quite hot, and it looks like a thunderstorm might break the heat. It's good weather to work on my website. ...So... Am I chasing a fantasy in trying to get these curly quotes to work in all the browsers? Here's

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Brian M. Curran
Tim wrote: ...So, in Explorer they look about how I'd like them. I'm on Linux, so I don't have access to Explorer, but in the spirit of large quotes somewhere reasonably placed at the start and end of each one of my quotes how about this? add to this: blockquote p { position:

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Brian M. Curran
Tim wrote: ...So, in Explorer they look about how I'd like them. I'm on Linux, so I don't have access to Explorer, but in the spirit of large quotes somewhere reasonably placed at the start and end of each one of my quotes how about this? add to this: blockquote p { position:

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread David Laakso
Brian M. Curran wrote: Well, it's a beautiful evening here in NYC. http://www.draftingservices.com/Copy%20of%20index.html Sincerely, Brian Nuke the heavy curly quotes, the top/bottom rules, and use a thin-rule left :-) . None of that stuff is in keeping with your site. Or, is it?

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Tim Climis
Thanks Tim, however it looks pretty wacky in Explorer. ...I'll have to give this some thought. I'm still new to CSS, so off the top of my head I'm seeing a work around how to format the curly quotes for all the different browsers. Brian i meant to say: *not* seeing My guess

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Brian M. Curran
Brian M. Curran wrote: Well, it's a beautiful evening here in NYC. http://www.draftingservices.com/Copy%20of%20index.html Sincerely, Brian Nuke the heavy curly quotes, the top/bottom rules, and use a thin-rule left :-) . None of that stuff is in keeping with your site. Or,

[css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-26 Thread Eric Peterson
Below is the test page I've been playing with. What I am trying to do is * have a header block at the top of the page/screen * have a footer block at the bottom of the page/screen * have a menu side bar on the right with links that does not scroll with the main content * have the

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

2010-06-26 Thread David Laakso
Eric Peterson wrote: Below is the test page I've been playing with. Let's start here (take it slow and wait for others on the list who will offer good advice). This: html { font-family : Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; } Becomes this [user friendly