Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 8, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > It seems that zoom does something in IE7- which I do not understand. Can > anyone explain? This would mean using something like this. > > > li {display: -moz-inline-block; display: inline-block; width:100px;} > *+html li {display: inline; zoom:

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
Alan Gresley wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: Hi Alan, [snip] For a or , display: inline-block will render the list items vertical in IE7-. There are two options that are cross browser friendly. 1. Setting display: inline on this s and setting the s to display: block in which a width can b

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
Thierry Koblentz wrote: Hi Alan, problems with a layout I was working on. I have a horizontal menu that I was using an UL list, this worked in firefox, but not completly in IE 7/8 and various others. they kept going into a vertical list despite using things like display: inline-block, so I de

Re: [css-d] Aligning a floated image with the top of following text

2010-11-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Part of the way into revising my little site, I noticed that the top > edge each floated image was about four pixels above the top of the > capital letter(s) of the text that immediately followed. I found a > solution; using padding to push the image down a bit. But I never > understood why that

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, > > problems with a layout I was working on. I have a horizontal menu > that I > > was using an UL list, this worked in firefox, but not completly in IE > > 7/8 and various others. they kept going into a vertical list despite > > using things like display: inline-block, so I decided to re

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
David McGlone wrote: Hello everyone While we were discussing how to check sites in the last topic "Quirks compendium" I was replying to Michael Geary about browsershots and browswerlabs I had to run myself through browserlabs to accurately describe what I was trying to explain and I came across a

Re: [css-d] z-index question in FF

2010-11-07 Thread Debbie Campbell
It was - I just fixed that before your reply came in. -- Debbie On 11/7/2010 8:55 PM, Gail Issen wrote: It looks good in FF and Opera. In IE8, though, there is a small X next to the logo. Is something missing? Gail Gail W. Issen http://www.xpertwebs.com http://www.xpertmarks.com Tel: 713-721-

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
David McGlone wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:15 -0600, Keith Purtell wrote: [snip] I wonder if someone on the Web has a list of the most common quirks for different browsers/versions? Why go through all that? Use adobe browserlab to check your site in a bunch of browsers easily. Correct U

Re: [css-d] z-index question in FF

2010-11-07 Thread Debbie Campbell
I had the logo in the header but was having trouble getting it to stack above the sidebar. With your suggestion and the previous one I got it working, thank you. -- Debbie On 11/7/2010 8:27 PM, Nate Taratoa wrote: Hi, Two questions 1. Why is your top nav in a element and not a elem

Re: [css-d] z-index question in FF

2010-11-07 Thread Debbie Campbell
Thanks very much! I'm new to this WordPress framework and didn't see the overflow: hidden; I've removed the link to the default Hybrid stylesheet for the 2-col layout and all is well. -- Debbie On 11/7/2010 8:18 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Debbie Campbell wro

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
Keith Purtell wrote: When it comes to making sure my Web design appears normally in different browsers, I've been checking via the three installed on my PC, the Mac at work, two other PCs owned by family members, and an iPhone a friend has. I'll probably always check to see how a site looks on di

Re: [css-d] z-index question in FF

2010-11-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Debbie Campbell wrote: > In this site (still very much in progress and only checked in FF so far) the > logo on the left should be on top of the brown/green/tan background image: > >> http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/camper/ > > I've moved it down so you can

Re: [css-d] z-index question in FF

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 19:51 -0700, Debbie Campbell wrote: > In this site (still very much in progress and only checked in FF so far) > the logo on the left should be on top of the brown/green/tan background > image: > > > http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/camper/ > > I've moved it down so

[css-d] z-index question in FF

2010-11-07 Thread Debbie Campbell
In this site (still very much in progress and only checked in FF so far) the logo on the left should be on top of the brown/green/tan background image: http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/camper/ I've moved it down so you can see it, and have tried various combinations of z-index values

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 15:20 -0800, Michael Geary wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, David McGlone wrote: > > > > > Sorry :-( I was trying to help. > > > > -- > > Blessings > > David M. > > > > Hey, my goodness, you didn't do anything wrong! If it saves the list from > one "browser check pl

[css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
Hello everyone While we were discussing how to check sites in the last topic "Quirks compendium" I was replying to Michael Geary about browsershots and browswerlabs I had to run myself through browserlabs to accurately describe what I was trying to explain and I came across a couple problems with a

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Geary
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM, David McGlone wrote: > > Sorry :-( I was trying to help. > > -- > Blessings > David M. > Hey, my goodness, you didn't do anything wrong! If it saves the list from one "browser check please" message it's worth it. :-) For testing how CSS and JavaScript interact, I

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 12:22 -0800, Michael Geary wrote: > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, David McGlone wrote: > > > sorry about that, that was the URL from google, but when I click on it, > > it isn't the same. here's the correct one > > > > https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html?sdid=EW

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 21:50 +0100, bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > > "Michael Geary" wrote: > > >That would also let Adobe present the BrowserLab UI in your own language > >instead of English if they support it (and it looks from the URL like they > >may have other languages besides English). > > Th

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Claude Needham
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:38 AM, David McGlone wrote: > On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:15 -0600, Keith Purtell wrote: >> When it comes to making sure my Web design appears normally in different >> browsers, I've been checking via the three installed on my PC, the Mac >> at work, two other PCs owned by f

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Geary
> > Michael Geary wrote: > > That looks like a session ID or some such in the URL. You probably don't >> want that. I'd recommend using just the base host/domain name: >> >> https://browserlab.adobe.com/ >> >> That would also let Adobe present the BrowserLab UI in your own language >> instead of E

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Geary
> > > "Michael Geary" wrote: > > >That would also let Adobe present the BrowserLab UI in your own language > >instead of English if they support it (and it looks from the URL like they > >may have other languages besides English). > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:50 PM, wrote: > That always annoys th

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: >> "Michael Geary"wrote: > >> That would also let Adobe present the BrowserLab UI in your own language >> instead of English if they support it (and it looks from the URL like they >> may have other languages besides English). > > That always annoys the daylights out o

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread bruce . somers
> "Michael Geary" wrote: >That would also let Adobe present the BrowserLab UI in your own language >instead of English if they support it (and it looks from the URL like they >may have other languages besides English). That always annoys the daylights out of me. They don't know what my languages

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Geary
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:45 AM, David McGlone wrote: > sorry about that, that was the URL from google, but when I click on it, > it isn't the same. here's the correct one > > https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html?sdid=EWRQH&# That looks like a session ID or some such in the URL. You pr

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread David Laakso
On 11/7/10 2:15 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: I wonder if someone on the Web has a list of the most common quirks for different browsers/versions? - Keith Purtell IE 6/7: On having layout Position is everything

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Jack Timmons
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:38 PM, David McGlone wrote: > Why go through all that? Use adobe browserlab to check your site in a > bunch of browsers easily. > > http://www.Adobe.com/BrowserLab > > If anyone here has a different perspective, I'd like to hear it. I can't > find anything other than brows

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 11:40 -0800, Peter Coates wrote: > "Sorry, this page is not available" sorry about that, that was the URL from google, but when I click on it, it isn't the same. here's the correct one https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html?sdid=EWRQH&# > > -Original Message

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Peter Coates
"Sorry, this page is not available" -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of David McGlone Sent: November-07-10 11:39 To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium? On Sun, 2010-11-07 at

Re: [css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:15 -0600, Keith Purtell wrote: > When it comes to making sure my Web design appears normally in different > browsers, I've been checking via the three installed on my PC, the Mac > at work, two other PCs owned by family members, and an iPhone a friend > has. I'll probably a

[css-d] Aligning a floated image with the top of following text

2010-11-07 Thread Keith Purtell
Part of the way into revising my little site, I noticed that the top edge each floated image was about four pixels above the top of the capital letter(s) of the text that immediately followed. I found a solution; using padding to push the image down a bit. But I never understood why that four-pixel

[css-d] Quirks compendium?

2010-11-07 Thread Keith Purtell
When it comes to making sure my Web design appears normally in different browsers, I've been checking via the three installed on my PC, the Mac at work, two other PCs owned by family members, and an iPhone a friend has. I'll probably always check to see how a site looks on different machines becaus

Re: [css-d] A question on CSS compression and minifcation

2010-11-07 Thread Thierry
>> Almost a year ago I switched to YUI Compressor for minification and it >> really works. Now I want to use compression on shared hosts, but I'm >> afraid of getting thorugh all the tests with the .htaccess file that, by >> the way, it's limited in some ways on a shared host. And yes, there's no >

Re: [css-d] Textarea not showing up

2010-11-07 Thread Beth Lee
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: > Hello. > http://www.glitterlemonade.com/model_citizen/donate_occasion > > I have a textarea coded onto the form on this page, but it is not showing up. Your "homepage_maincontent" div is being taken out of the natural flow with the rule posi

[css-d] Textarea not showing up

2010-11-07 Thread Rory Bernstein
Hello. http://www.glitterlemonade.com/model_citizen/donate_occasion I have a textarea coded onto the form on this page, but it is not showing up. The code for it is right under this text: Briefly tell us about your family and the birthday or special occasion you are donating. We'll get back to y

Re: [css-d] css with js disabled

2010-11-07 Thread David Laakso
On 11/7/10 9:18 AM, tee wrote: And if there is any disagreement and fell short on your part, based on your answer, is that you seemed to denied my solution is not a solution at all. There is nothing wrong at all with your solution. It just dose not work out for me with this particular s

Re: [css-d] css with js disabled

2010-11-07 Thread tee
On Nov 7, 2010, at 4:37 AM, David Laakso wrote: > On 11/6/10 1:28 PM, tee wrote: >> >>> Now, if I can just figure out why Mac OS X 10.4 Safari/4.1.2 and the >>> current WebKit nightly are both rendering some images as teeny-tiny >>> thumbnails with js enabled... >>> >>> Anyone? >> Pretty sur

Re: [css-d] css with js disabled

2010-11-07 Thread David Laakso
On 11/6/10 1:28 PM, tee wrote: Now, if I can just figure out why Mac OS X 10.4 Safari/4.1.2 and the current WebKit nightly are both rendering some images as teeny-tiny thumbnails with js enabled... Anyone? Pretty sure it's caused by max-width declaration in #main img. Not a good idea for

Re: [css-d] 2-column definition list - when floated DT is longer than DD?

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
Dev monkey wrote: Hi all, the typical way to format definition lists as a 2-column table is to float the DTs (left column) and give the DDs a left margin larger than the DT width. This works fine when all DDs are equal to, or longer than, their matching DT. In my case, all my definition-list