Re: [css-d] TwoQuestions: min/max-width, change layout with width

2012-01-25 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 24.01.2012 10:07 schrieb Felix Miata: On 2012/01/23 10:35 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed: 960px is a good max width... for most site visitors. ...where most is as little as 50% + 1 of today's visitors. Is there statistical evidence for any of these two statements? OTOH, the em unit

Re: [css-d] Class working everywhere but IE

2012-01-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-01-25 2:21, Russ Peters wrote: The problem is that when you go to our site: http://www.redcanoecu.com then try and login to Online Banking the tagline your dreams our passion image doesn't pad right 12em. It's ends up next to the logo. I can't explain that (IE generally honors

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread Ghodmode
I think we're going around in circles. Here's my existing experiment page: http://www.ghodmode.com/experiments/emsize.html I'm going to do another one with more information. It's a square block, 1em wide and tall, with a lowercase 'm' inside it. I used Javascript (jQuery) to get the width and

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ghodmode wrote: It shows that an em is as wide as it is tall, No, it does not. An em is one-dimensional, not two. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 25.01.2012 11:04 schrieb Ghodmode: I think we're going around in circles. This matches my impression. It shows that an em is as wide as it is tall, but it's not the size of the letter 'm'. As described in the spec, the em unit is defined as the font size. em is maybe not the best of

Re: [css-d] .

2012-01-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Brian wrote: F*** ! I’ve never seen anything better! It’s the dream of my life! URL Exactly the same obscene text to be found all over the web; recommend not to follow link. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

[css-d] Creating a directory list

2012-01-25 Thread Guilherme Longo
Hi everyone, I am trying to create a list that looks like a directory structure. The list is here: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/822/tela1.png/ It is at left collumn. I am running into troubles to create that line that connect the elements of the list. Could I get some help from here?

Re: [css-d] .

2012-01-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 10:56 + 1/25/12, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Exactly the same obscene text to be found all over the web; recommend not to follow link. The posting account (Brian, not Philip) has been unsubscribed. Sorry for the noise, folks, and doubly sorry if it tripped any content filters at work.

[css-d] visited page turning wrong color

2012-01-25 Thread Stuart King
URL: http://skingdesign.com/todd/ the horizontal browser menu items should be black, hover white. When a page is visited, the visited page remains white. Please advise, Thank you. __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] visited page turning wrong color

2012-01-25 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
Am 25.01.2012 15:39, schrieb Stuart King: URL: http://skingdesign.com/todd/ the horizontal browser menu items should be black, hover white. When a page is visited, the visited page remains white. Please advise, Thank you.

Re: [css-d] TwoQuestions: min/max-width, change layout with width

2012-01-25 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/01/25 10:22 (GMT+0100) Markus Ernst composed: Felix Miata composed: On 2012/01/23 10:35 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed: 960px is a good max width... for most site visitors. ...where most is as little as 50% + 1 of today's visitors. Is there statistical evidence for any of

Re: [css-d] Creating a directory list

2012-01-25 Thread William Gaffga
Well, without knowing more about your project, it is hard to say what the best thing to do is. If your directory structure is fixed, i.e., it does not dynamically change based on where the user is, consider using a background image. Or, potentially, you could create the structure as a ul and make

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread Paceaux
I'm giving up on this topic. After reading the specs numerous times, I'm realizing that the specs themselves are circular. I feel like I'm trying to find out if the chicken or the egg came first. On ems and exes: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/REC-CSS2-20110607/syndata.html#length-units : em:

Re: [css-d] Creating a directory list

2012-01-25 Thread Guilherme Longo
Thanks William Gaffga. Its fixed. So the image is the best way to go... I thought it was more complicated. Thanks a lot. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:53 PM, William Gaffga will.gaf...@gmail.comwrote: Well, without knowing more about your project, it is hard to say what the best thing to do

[css-d] Centering a NAV element containing a horizontal list

2012-01-25 Thread Tim Dawson
I'm having my first crack at an HTML5 site using some of the new elements. It's all at an early stage, but I'm trying to iron out a few problems with the menu. http://www.mull-bed-and-breakfast.co.uk/temp/ My client wants a horizontal menu centred on the page, holding (at the moment) seven

Re: [css-d] Centering a NAV element containing a horizontal list

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tim Dawson t...@ramasaig.com wrote: I'm having my first crack at an HTML5 site using some of the new elements. It's all at an early stage, but I'm trying to iron out a few problems with the menu. http://www.mull-bed-and-breakfast.co.uk/temp/ My client wants

Re: [css-d] Centering a NAV element containing a horizontal list

2012-01-25 Thread David Laakso
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tim Dawson t...@ramasaig.com wrote: I'm having my first crack at an HTML5 site using some of the new elements. It's all at an early stage, but I'm trying to iron out a few problems with the menu. http://www.mull-bed-and-breakfast.co.uk/temp/ My client wants a

Re: [css-d] Centering a NAV element containing a horizontal list

2012-01-25 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/25/12 10:12 AM, David Laakso wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tim Dawsont...@ramasaig.com wrote: I'm having my first crack at an HTML5 site using some of the new elements. It's all at an early stage, but I'm trying to iron out a few problems with the menu.

Re: [css-d] TwoQuestions: min/max-width, change layout with width

2012-01-25 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Ghodmode wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/01/23 10:35 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed: 960px is a good max width... for most site visitors. ...where most is as little as 50% + 1 of today's visitors. I consider that

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Tim Climis wrote: From my this, it really visually appears as if the em is not an m or an M in even the most plain typeface. That's when the text is centered. If it's left or right aligned, you can fit in two more m. As has been discussed before in this thread, em is

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread John D
I'm giving up on this topic. After reading the specs numerous times, I'm realizing that the specs themselves are circular. I feel like I'm trying to find out if the chicken or the egg came first. That is why Ghostmode started from the first principles and as I see it he wanted to