Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread Ghodmode
Sorry about the double posting. I don't know how it happened. I thought I had clicked send already, and apparently I had, but the window didn't go away like it should have. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread Ghodmode
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 AM, David Laakso wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, David Thorp > wrote: >  Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add > "resize:horizontal;" to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. > > -- > It is a little difficult to help because you seem a little confused >

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread David Thorp
Sounds like I'm jumping in on this a little late, as Vince has chimed in for me (thanks), but yes, David, thanks for the suggestions and I can see some merits in CSS tables in certain circumstances (very interesting idea, really), but in this case, I couldn't see how it's going to work, and it l

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread Ghodmode
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 AM, David Laakso wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, David Thorp > wrote: >  Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add > "resize:horizontal;" to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. > > -- > It is a little difficult to help because you seem a little confused >

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-11 Thread Reese
At 03:47 PM 3/11/2012, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Tedd Sperling wrote: All new technical terminology starts as some form of jargon. The success of which usually comes about as an acceptance of term definitions among those practicing the technology. As a result of which we now have to suffer such a

Re: [css-d] CSS to auto-adjust iframe content?

2012-03-11 Thread Keith Purtell
On 3/11/2012 4:53 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/if.htm So, that is the typical Twitter packet - it generates a truck load of divs and loads contents via ajax calls. If you look at the source of that page, you see a js string that sets the width of one of

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread David Laakso
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, David Thorp wrote: Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add "resize:horizontal;" to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. -- It is a little difficult to help because you seem a little confused about CSS ["look and feel] versus scripting/programming . Neverthel

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tedd Sperling wrote: All new technical terminology starts as some form of jargon. The success of which usually comes about as an acceptance of term definitions among those practicing the technology. As a result of which we now have to suffer such abominations as "distro" (distribution), "g

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-11 Thread Tedd Sperling
On Mar 11, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Ghodmode wrote: > > Anyway, the specific meaning of the individual terms wasn't the point. In > fact, > I just made up at least one of them. The point was that we create catchy > names > for our ideas, techniques, and technologies and that they don't necessarily >

Re: [css-d] CSS to auto-adjust iframe content?

2012-03-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 11, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: > Here's a temporary link to their code. I'll take a look at the w3 link while > anyone who cares to can comment on the following: It's supposed to fit inside > a tall slender area, and the publisher wants the full text width visible via > diff

Re: [css-d] CSS to auto-adjust iframe content?

2012-03-11 Thread Ghodmode
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: > On 3/10/2012 9:11 AM, Ghodmode wrote: >> >> It's not really a CSS question, but a basic HTML question.  Iframes have a >> "scrolling" property that defines whether or not the iframe should have >> scroll bars... >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/htm

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-11 Thread Ghodmode
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Ghodmode wrote: >> In this field, we live on a never-ending stream of meaningless phrases.  Here >> are a few more examples: >>  Dynamic HTML >>  Object Oriented Programming >>  Web 2.0 >>  AJAX >>  Semantic Web