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

2010-09-01 Thread Brian M. Curran
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 can't see how it is being

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

2010-09-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
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!?

2010-09-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Sorry, wrong line :-( script type=text/javascript src=/javascript/menu.js/script Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Menu items expanding with browser window

2010-09-01 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:43:45 +0100, Ellen Heitman ellen.heit...@gmail.com wrote: Please take a look at the following test page: http://www.pottersignal.com/sales_test.aspx Notice that if you expand or contract the page the horizontal menu at the top of the page expands and contracts with

Re: [css-d] Disappearing Navigation Bar

2010-09-01 Thread David Laakso
taestrada wrote: I am having the strangest problem with a site I built. It looks great when I view it in Firefox, Chrome and IE8, but two people have reported that the the brown navigation bar doesn't show up at all. One of them was using IE7 and the other said IE8. Since I can't replicate the

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

2010-09-01 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:23:21 +0100, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com 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

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

2010-09-01 Thread Brian M. Curran
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 can't see how it

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

2010-09-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
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] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

2010-09-01 Thread Kevin Rodenhofer
Those are just animated gifs. Nothing fancy at all. No Javascript needed. If you go to the image directly, you'll see it is still animated. http://www. cadtutor .net/images/tips/orbit_hide.gif (added spaces for Brian) There are many apps out there, such as Gif Animator (http://www. jhepple

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

2010-09-01 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:21:37 +0100, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com 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

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

2010-09-01 Thread Brian M. Curran
Duncan Hill wrote: Webdesign-l etc would be better to take this because List-Mom is sure to be preparing the Sword of Damocles for this thread now. Thanks for the other valuable info Duncan. As for webdesign-l, that site seems pretty dead to me. I post, and don't hear a peep. Nor do I ever

Re: [css-d] Zooming and wrappers

2010-09-01 Thread David Laakso
Keith Purtell wrote: David: It's taken me a while to write you because I've been digesting and applying all the advice I got about my newbie CSS efforts. Hi, Studs Terkel, Chicago, on this end with some suggestions that have nothing to do with what you wrote David Hucklesby about--

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

2010-09-01 Thread Timariane Thornewig
A user just sent over this website for IE bugs that I am grateful to have shared with me. I fear that I am suffering from the Escaping Background bug in IE7 and and overall background problem in IE6 because I'm using a .png in my background. Here's the link to the bug doc:

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

2010-09-01 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
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

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

2010-09-01 Thread Val Dobson
On 1 September 2010 14:16, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Duncan Hill wrote: Webdesign-l etc would be better to take this because List-Mom is sure to be preparing the Sword of Damocles for this thread now. Thanks for the other valuable info Duncan. As for webdesign-l,

Re: [css-d] IE Problem - logo appearing on top of text

2010-09-01 Thread David Hucklesby
On 8/31/10 10:18 PM, Timariane Thornewig wrote: Thank you, Beth. That worked! You can see it in: http://www.ashelighting.com/controldesign4.html Now I just need to fix my background image problem in IE 6. Does anyone know if there is a way to make .png files appear correctly in IE 6? There

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

2010-09-01 Thread Duncan Hill
Ah! but how many of those posts were about email clients ?? :) :) Best wishes Duncan off-list for fear of Eric! Must be a different webdesign-l list from the one I'm on. It's pretty lively most days. Checked your spam folder lately? Val

[css-d] font-size rule of thumb

2010-09-01 Thread Bob Meetin
What is the current rule of thumb for setting or controlling font sizes in the stylesheet? html { font-size: (px or em) (if any?) } body { font-size: (px or em) (if any?) } Any IF IE adjustments for IE vs Mozilla/Safari? Part of the reason I ask is because when you use a CMS program and a

Re: [css-d] font-size rule of thumb

2010-09-01 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/09/01 15:50 (GMT-0400) Bob Meetin composed: What is the current rule of thumb for setting or controlling font sizes in the stylesheet? Remember, CSS is a language of suggestion, not one of control like in DTP. The user has ultimate control, because, after all, its her puter, or

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

2010-09-01 Thread Cheryl Smith
What is the email address to access webdesign-l? Cheryl Must be a different webdesign-l list from the one I'm on.  It's pretty lively most days.  Checked your spam folder lately? Val __ css-discuss

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

2010-09-01 Thread Brian M. Curran
What is the email address to access webdesign-l? Cheryl Must be a different webdesign-l list from the one I'm on. It's pretty lively most days. Checked your spam folder lately? Val It's l...@webdesign-l.com . There must be something wrong with my account

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

2010-09-01 Thread David Laakso
On 9/1/10 9:43 PM, Cheryl Smith wrote: What is the email address to access webdesign-l? Cheryl web design list l...@webdesign-l.com Do you have a CSS question, Cheryl? Btw, thanks! I did not know that that was meatloaf... Best, ~d -- :: desktop and mobile ::

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

2010-09-01 Thread Alan Gresley
Timariane Thornewig wrote: A user just sent over this website for IE bugs that I am grateful to have shared with me. I fear that I am suffering from the Escaping Background bug in IE7 and and overall background problem in IE6 because I'm using a .png in my background. The user who sent you

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

2010-09-01 Thread Alan Gresley
Alan Gresley wrote: Firstly add a vertical position (y-axis) for the background-image. For some reason, when the bottom of the viewport is dragged down, this image after at some point follows along. 9px seems to work in IE7 and FF 3.6.8. body { margin: 0; background-image:

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

2010-09-01 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, body { margin: 0; background-image: url(images/background2.png); background-color: #22; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center 9px; /* add vertical position */ } Here we go again. With IE7- it seems that when a background

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

2010-09-01 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Here we go again. With IE7- it seems that when a background image with vertical position (y-axis) is center on the body element, the position-center is not the center of the content of the page but rather the center of the viewport.

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

2010-09-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 2, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Without background styling of HTML, body should be painted from top to bottom of the viewport regardless of content isn't? From my understanding of the spec, it is the background styling of HTML that vertically shrink-wraps body (the reason

Re: [css-d] Disappearing Navigation Bar

2010-09-01 Thread taestrada
-Original Message- From: David Laakso [mailto:da...@chelseacreekstudio.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:01 AM To: taestrada Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Disappearing Navigation Bar taestrada wrote: I am having the strangest problem with a site I built.