Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-04 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Keith Purtell wrote: I'm using a carat character instead of an image of an arrow to point upwards. I suppose you mean the circumflex "^" (sometimes called the caret). I wonder why you don't use an upwards arrow character instead. If you don't know how to enter it in your editing environment,

Re: [css-d] Border Radius for Tables using CSS3

2011-03-04 Thread David Laakso
On 3/5/11 1:55 AM, cssl...@bassonhook.com wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies. http://www.vanislebc.com/billing "Me myself I got nothong to prove" Next step may be more esoteric, like sort of making it readable :-) . Best, Tracy Chapin Fast C

Re: [css-d] Border Radius for Tables using CSS3

2011-03-04 Thread csslist
> Thanks everyone for your replies. I had tried the unfixed property also but individually instead of shorthand. Must of done something wrong the first time round. Working now. Thanks again. As for the nested table/css warning, I understand as I've already gone through a few issues. This was th

Re: [css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-04 Thread Chetan Crasta
> http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/gifts-of-song.htm#player > > and here's the CSS so far > > div.up { >        font-size:10em; >        font-weight:100 !important; >        vertical-align:-.3em; >        } > > All of the web-safe fonts are available only in two weights (afaik): normal (400

[css-d] Trying to make text lighter than 100

2011-03-04 Thread Keith Purtell
I'm using a carat character instead of an image of an arrow to point upwards. I was able to use vertical-align to bring it closer to the text it accompanies, but for some reason I've lost the ability to make the carat character larger. Here's a link http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/gifts-of

Re: [css-d] your opinion and advice appreciated

2011-03-04 Thread G.Sørtun
On 05.03.2011 02:44, Martin wrote: Now to the fonts. I know it doesn't look nice. I'm not an experienced designer so earlier I read some basics on setting up the font sizes. I got the impression that one shouldn't set font-size in pixels in order to give the user freedom to change the size. On

Re: [css-d] your opinion and advice appreciated

2011-03-04 Thread Martin
On 04/03/11 04:10, "G.Sørtun" wrote: On 04.03.2011 02:35, Martin wrote: I also tested it today on IE6 - and here's the problem. Any advice? link: www.slackword.net/astute Didn't test, but I'm pretty sure the addition of... .trileft {display: inline;} ...will fix IE6' 'margin-doubling on flo

Re: [css-d] Border Radius for Tables using CSS3

2011-03-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On 3/4/11 3:17 PM, cssl...@bassonhook.com wrote: Hi, I've been reading most of the list emails that get sent to me but have never posted until now. I am a beginner with css and have been playing around with css3 and a cms called phpCoin. If you view my test site in firefox you'll see what I'm t

Re: [css-d] Border Radius for Tables using CSS3

2011-03-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 5, 2011, at 8:17 AM, cssl...@bassonhook.com wrote: > If you view my test site in > firefox you'll see what I'm trying achieve > http://www.vanislebc.com/billing. The problem is with Opera and IE not > showing rounded corners properly. I > realize that IE cannot do this but I thought Oper

[css-d] Border Radius for Tables using CSS3

2011-03-04 Thread csslist
Hi, I've been reading most of the list emails that get sent to me but have never posted until now. I am a beginner with css and have been playing around with css3 and a cms called phpCoin. If you view my test site in firefox you'll see what I'm trying achieve http://www.vanislebc.com/billing. The

Re: [css-d] IE7 float question, stacking instead of floating

2011-03-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On 3/4/11 7:45 AM, Debbie Campbell wrote: Forgive me for asking the same question again, I definitely don't want to waste anyone's time. Before I wrote last night, I tried adding zoom: 1 to the floated divs and then to their containing block but it didn't have any effect in IE7. The floated divs

Re: [css-d] IE7 float question, stacking instead of floating

2011-03-04 Thread Debbie Campbell
I apologize again, the site launched late last night and the problem has been fixed using the changes I mentioned in my previous reply, not having anything to do with the float bug. It was an urgent matter at the time. -- Debbie _

Re: [css-d] IE7 float question, stacking instead of floating

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Gresley
On 4/03/2011 2:16 PM, Debbie Campbell wrote: Can someone tell me why the three yellow divs are stacked on top of each other rather than floating left in IE7? http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/cvs/ Hard to say when the pages doesn't exist anymore. -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies

Re: [css-d] IE7 float question, stacking instead of floating

2011-03-04 Thread Alan Gresley
On 4/03/2011 2:51 PM, David Laakso wrote: On 3/3/11 10:16 PM, Debbie Campbell wrote: Can someone tell me why the three yellow divs are stacked on top of each other rather than floating left in IE7? http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/cvs/ Forgive me Debbie, but it may be because you kee

Re: [css-d] IE7 float question, stacking instead of floating

2011-03-04 Thread Debbie Campbell
Forgive me for asking the same question again, I definitely don't want to waste anyone's time. Before I wrote last night, I tried adding zoom: 1 to the floated divs and then to their containing block but it didn't have any effect in IE7. The floated divs did have a width applied which I underst

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Here is how I see it, by the way : https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5580238912279306258 Here's how it looks to me:

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Charles Miller wrote: >> I did : I was just too shocked to comment, given that you had >> suggested it was overkerned. Remember, please, Goudy's aphorism. > Might that be: First do no harm.:-) > > I'll look earlier in the thread for the actual aphorism. > Look no further : A man who woul

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 04/03/11 14:57, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Here is how I see it, by the way : https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5580238912279306258 ** P. __ For what it's wor

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Charles Miller
On Mar 4, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > So the problem would have been had you thought it was "windy." > > I did : I was just too shocked to comment, given that you had > suggested it was overkerned. Remember, please, Goudy's aphorism. Might that be: First do n

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Charles Miller wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> But that shews no evidence at all of overtight letter fit >> (in my browser, at my preferred settings, at least). Can >> you send a screenshot of how it appears at your end, so >> we can see where

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Charles Miller
On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Here is how I see it, by the way : > > > https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5580238912279306258 > > ** P. My fervent hope to get out of this house has been briefly thwart

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Here is how I see it, by the way : https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5580238912279306258 ** P. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mail

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Charles Miller
On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > But that shews no evidence at all of overtight letter fit > (in my browser, at my preferred settings, at least). Can > you send a screenshot of how it appears at your end, so > we can see where you are getting the feel that it

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Charles Miller wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> Charles Miller wrote: >> >>> But the letterfit (there's that word again) of body text in the WordPress site I inherited and am reworking, is with no letter-spacing simply too tight. (I doubt that

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Charles Miller
On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Charles Miller wrote: > >> But the letterfit (there's that word again) of body text in the WordPress >> site I inherited and am reworking, is with no letter-spacing simply too >> tight. (I doubt that the font designer wanted

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Charles Miller wrote: But the letterfit (there's that word again) of body text in the WordPress site I inherited and am reworking, is with no letter-spacing simply too tight. (I doubt that the font designer wanted it to look that way.) Could we see this site, so we can judge for ourselves

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Charles Miller
On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > In general, setting any kind of letter-spacing on body text is a poor idea - > and font designers do know their job, in general (yes, I know, there are > crappy fonts out there). That may be sound advice. And, thanks to you and others,

Re: [css-d] CSS automatically adjusts widths for iPhone without

2011-03-04 Thread ishi soichi
Thanks for the info. I will give a shot. soichi 2011/3/4 Philippe Wittenbergh > > On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:11 PM, ishi soichi wrote: > > > hi. I'm developing a site optimized for iPhone. > > > > The width of the site is crucial. And iPhone needs both vertical and > > horizontal settings. > > Two

Re: [css-d] CSS automatically adjusts widths for iPhone without

2011-03-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:11 PM, ishi soichi wrote: > hi. I'm developing a site optimized for iPhone. > > The width of the site is crucial. And iPhone needs both vertical and > horizontal settings. > Two settings need to be put into effective automatically, I believe. > > Can I set both settings o

Re: [css-d] CSS automatically adjusts widths for iPhone without

2011-03-04 Thread Rick Gordon
You can find your answer here: nd iPhone needs both vertical and >horizontal settings. >Two settings need to be put into effective automatically, I believe. > >Can I set both settings only with CSS? > >For some reason, I cannot use in HTML. >I need to a

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:18 AM, Charles Miller wrote: >> Don't play at pretending to be a type designer. Do not letterspace text. >> body { >> /*letter-spacing:0.05em; delete */ >> } >> ~d > > I'll interpret that as saying that I would be pretending because the web > doesn't allow type design in a