Re: [css-d] Fwd: Media Queries

2011-09-27 Thread Barney Carroll
Regarding the col element, the theory was that you would-be able to use it as a shorthand for all cells within it, thus defining colours, typography etc by implicit table structure rather than chucking class names on all cells, using adjacency selectors, or somesuch. In practice, browser suppor

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Media Queries

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
Thanks Philippe. Besides simple html emails, I haven't used a table in a long time. I'll dig into border-collapse and spacing. For the element, it seems that besides passing the validator, it's kinda the same as setting widths on s or s, no? Adding a "row" of s - extra markup - just to set width

[css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread Ingo Chao
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Ingo Chao wrote: > >> http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/#first-letter >> "The ::first-letter pseudo-element represents the first letter of an >> element, if it is not preceded by any

Re: [css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Ingo Chao wrote: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-css3-selectors-20110929/#first-letter > "The ::first-letter pseudo-element represents the first letter of an > element, if it is not preceded by any other content (such as images or > inline tables) on its line." Yes,

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Media Queries

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 28, 2011, at 5:55 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: > The html errors i can live with. I do not know how to do cellspacing > with CSS border-collapse & border-spacing http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#borders > and I think classing table columns to control width is kinda > silly. hmm. The

Re: [css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread David Laakso
On 9/27/11 7:29 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Could anyone explain why the leading "M" of the following paragraph : Philip Taylor Dunno. But, this will do...:-) /*SPAN.Keyphrase {text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 1.4ex; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.075em; color: r

Re: [css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread Ingo Chao
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) < p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > Could anyone explain why the leading "M" of the following paragraph : > >Many of us are lucky enough to take anaesthesia for granted. Surely a world without safe anaesthesia has long been conf

Re: [css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Could anyone explain why the leading "M" of the following paragraph : > >src="Resources/Images/Photographs/Web/Scaled/240/Infant-Uganda.001.jpg" > longdesc="../Resources/Images/Photographs/Web/Longdesc/Infant-Uganda-

[css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Could anyone explain why the leading "M" of the following paragraph : Many of us are lucky enough to take anaesthesia for granted. Surely a world without safe anaesthesia has long been confined to the history books ?  Not in the developing world, where hospitals lack suitable equipment,

[css-d] Fwd: Media Queries

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:57 PM, David Laakso wrote: > On 9/27/11 3:26 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: >> >> List, >> >> I'm going around and around with this and can't see the source of my >> woes. Can anyone see the cause of layout issues in IE8 and IE7? >> >> IE8 is close, but it seems like selectivz

Re: [css-d] Media Queries [+1}

2011-09-27 Thread David Laakso
On 9/27/11 3:57 PM, David Laakso wrote: On 9/27/11 3:26 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: List, I'm going around and around with this and can't see the source of my woes. Can anyone see the cause of layout issues in IE8 and IE7? http://proof.mlinc.com/tl/cssd/ Thanks Hmm. Try changing the m

Re: [css-d] Media Queries

2011-09-27 Thread David Laakso
On 9/27/11 3:26 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: List, I'm going around and around with this and can't see the source of my woes. Can anyone see the cause of layout issues in IE8 and IE7? IE8 is close, but it seems like selectivzr isn't working. IE7 seems to not be using/loading the respond.js and i'

Re: [css-d] Best Practices For Sprites?

2011-09-27 Thread Elli Vizcaino
>>> Yes. One consideration is the technique you use to add sprite images. My >>> favorite technique for most - not all - is to add them using :before or >>> :after content, and to position the pseudo-element absolutely. >>> >[...] >> >> David would mind sharing some links to the various techniques

[css-d] Media Queries

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
List, I'm going around and around with this and can't see the source of my woes. Can anyone see the cause of layout issues in IE8 and IE7? IE8 is close, but it seems like selectivzr isn't working. IE7 seems to not be using/loading the respond.js and i'm not sure why. Works as desired in IE9, Saf

Re: [css-d] Best Practices For Sprites?

2011-09-27 Thread David Hucklesby
On 9/26/11 12:49 PM, Elli Vizcaino wrote: I usually have a "standard" sprite which contains icons that never repeat. A "horizontal" sprite which contains all of my button/ribbon treatments as we use sliding door method a great deal. And on occasion I also have a "vertical" sprite which contained

[css-d] bookmarks in invisible table rows not working

2011-09-27 Thread David Halliday
Hello   In FireFox, Is there a way to get  bookmarks placed in invisible table rows to work?   The CSS: #invsbl{ display:none; line-height:0px; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; border:0; margin:0; }   And the table row is:     The above works fine in IE.  In FireFox, when links are clicked, no