Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/08/24 10:51 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: John wrote: Sure, that's a great idea, but how many out there actually have Helvetica Neue? Maybe I'm stuck in the mindset of designing around those commonly-possessed fonts... Everybody who has OS X& iOS installed. Windows

Re: [css-d] Horizontal menu when menu name spans 2 lines

2011-08-23 Thread David Laakso
On 8/23/11 8:58 PM, Lisa Frost wrote: Hi David, I based my menu on your example as it was the one closest to what i wanted. You can check the page out so far here: www.mycfoasia.com/dev/ The spacing of the menu items varies from browser to browser but i just r

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread John
On Aug 23, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: …but how many out there actually have Helvetica Neue? Everybody who has OS X & iOS installed. Windows users will see Arial or whatever you specify. Philippe that is exceptionally nice to know! thank you again, Philippe! John _

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 24, 2011, at 10:32 AM, John wrote: > Sure, that's a great idea, but how many out there actually have Helvetica > Neue? Maybe I'm stuck in the mindset of designing around those > commonly-possessed fonts... Everybody who has OS X & iOS installed. Windows users will see Arial or whatever

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread John
On Aug 23, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Have you considered trying 'Helvetica Neue' in place of Helvetica? Most think it the far more attractive of the two. And (IMO, and that of many) Verdana is about the ugliest sans font there is at legibly large sizes (e.g. browser default).

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/08/23 16:52 (GMT-0700) John composed: reporting back. that didn't work. nor did making font-weight "bold" work. Nor did removing the font-weight part altogether. I guess next step is examining my fonts, but...if Helvetica bold were hosed, wouldn't a browser go to the next face spec'd

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread John
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: There is no Helvetica with 'font-weight:800' installed on OS X – unless you installed a third party copy of Helvetica. Safari (only on 10.4 ? I don't remember running in that sort of problem with Safari 4+ on 10.5 / 10.6) then looks

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread John
On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: There is no Helvetica with 'font-weight:800' installed on OS X – unless you installed a third party copy of Helvetica. Change that to 'font-weight:700;' and Safari will use Helvetica (not rounded). well, I must say I didn't expect

Re: [css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 24, 2011, at 7:31 AM, John wrote: > for this page: http://www.coffeeonmars.com/testing/1_index.html > > there's a headline spec'd as: > > font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; > > OK on most browsers, but on my other Mac, Safari 4.1.3 shows it as Helvetical > Bold *Round

[css-d] Why is Safari changing fonts?

2011-08-23 Thread John
for this page: http://www.coffeeonmars.com/testing/1_index.html there's a headline spec'd as: font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; OK on most browsers, but on my other Mac, Safari 4.1.3 shows it as Helvetical Bold *Rounded* despite having Helvetica Bold loaded and available

Re: [css-d] stretch one div vertically in three column layout

2011-08-23 Thread Adam Ambrus
On 23. 8. 2011 18:46, David Laakso wrote: On 8/23/11 8:08 AM, Adam Ambrus wrote: hello all, i am currently working on a redesign of an architectural studio's page. the original/current version can be found at www.adif.sk . the mockup of the new design is here http://ww

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread Claude Needham
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 23.8.2011 19:30, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > But now you gave me an excuse to jump in, because I don't think the trick is > particularly clever - it's not reliable, as it requires pixel-exact > settings, and it is difficult t

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
23.8.2011 19:30, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Chetan Crasta wrote: Using Firebug, this is what I found: The "two" lines is actually a bottom border on the h1. The p element is relatively positioned to overlap the bottom part of the h1. A background color is set on the p to prevent

Re: [css-d] stretch one div vertically in three column layout

2011-08-23 Thread David Laakso
On 8/23/11 8:08 AM, Adam Ambrus wrote: hello all, i am currently working on a redesign of an architectural studio's page. the original/current version can be found at www.adif.sk . the mockup of the new design is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/king-muffin/6069114194/i

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread thameera...@gmail.com
Thanks for the replies. Yes, it's quite clever coding! On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:42 PM, thameera...@gmail.com < thameera...@gmail.com> wrote: > In this page -> http://trentwalton.com/examples/cowpoke/ > how has the designer introduced two lines on both sides of 'wide brim > hats'? > I don't seem

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chetan Crasta wrote: > Using Firebug, this is what I found: > > The "two" lines is actually a bottom border on the h1. The p element is > relatively positioned to overlap the bottom part of the h1. A background > color is set on the p to prevent the border from being seen over the > letters. Cle

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread Chetan Crasta
Using Firebug, this is what I found: The "two" lines is actually a bottom border on the h1. The p element is relatively positioned to overlap the bottom part of the h1. A background color is set on the p to prevent the border from being seen over the letters. Regards, Chetan Crasta __

[css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread thameera...@gmail.com
In this page -> http://trentwalton.com/examples/cowpoke/ how has the designer introduced two lines on both sides of 'wide brim hats'? I don't seem to understand how it is done. :S __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http:/

Re: [css-d] round corners shadow

2011-08-23 Thread Frank
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Frank wrote: I tried adding shadows to round corner boxes and on the right bottom, there's a space that's not filled in. Is there a way to fill that in with this type of round corner? Thank you. http://www.newbeginnings.info/roundcornershadow.html On Fri, 19

[css-d] stretch one div vertically in three column layout

2011-08-23 Thread Adam Ambrus
hello all, i am currently working on a redesign of an architectural studio's page. the original/current version can be found at www.adif.sk . the mockup of the new design is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/king-muffin/6069114194/in/photostream and finally, the new des