Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

2011-06-06 Thread Barney Carroll
On 5 June 2011 14:38, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2011/06/05 12:30 (GMT+0100) Barney Carroll composed: > >> Sadly the only lesson we can take from this is that Tahoma has >> too little in the way of letter-spacing to make for a pleasant web font. >> > > Tahoma looks to me like little but Verdana with

Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

2011-06-06 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/06/06 12:46 (GMT+0100) Barney Carroll composed: I'd recommend Lucida Sans Unicode as an alternative to Tahoma — that's Sans Unicode as opposed to Grande, which renders horrific on screen (particularly on PC). I don't remember being able to notice any differences between Lucida Grande

Re: [css-d] A question about 2-color borders (grooved, ridge etc.)

2011-06-06 Thread tedd
At 4:48 PM +1000 6/6/11, Alan Gresley wrote: On 4/06/2011 8:28 PM, Barney Carroll wrote: But I digress. Whenever I've tried to achieve the effect I've done it by trial, observation and error.The same values of relative darkness or lightness applied to other colours have never worked, and I've ne

Re: [css-d] A question about 2-color borders (grooved, ridge etc.)

2011-06-06 Thread Barney Carroll
On programmatically achieving abstract optical effects with an eye to beauty and design standards (warning: huge philosophical digression)… On 6 June 2011 07:48, Alan Gresley wrote: > I guess you're learning. Not to start qualitative debates on CSS lists? Vry slowly. People giving me t

Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

2011-06-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Felix Miata wrote: I don't remember being able to notice any differences between Lucida Grande and Lucida Sans Unicode on any machine I had both installed on, though I've not checked in a while. OTOH, you probably won't find Grande on any system that doesn't have Safari installed unless you

Re: [css-d] Two questions

2011-06-06 Thread Rich M
On 06/05/2011 02:07 PM, Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh wrote: http://montana-riverboats.com/Uploads/isitpossible.jpg shows a small crop from a large layered psd file I got from a designer. 1) The image above shows the top-left corner of the proposed page's main content display division, which shows a

Re: [css-d] Two questions

2011-06-06 Thread David Laakso
On 06/05/2011 02:07 PM, Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh wrote: http://montana-riverboats.com/Uploads/isitpossible.jpg shows a small crop from a large layered psd file I got from a designer. 1) It it possible to make a fuzzy border like this in a liquid layout context? Anything is possible. Or,