Re: [css-d] em-based typographic grid

2008-04-21 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >> Why not? :) > > That's not really an answer to my questions, especially the last one. This goes into philosophical side of things. :) I truly believe that for anything one might want to do -- "why not" is good approach. Just because there's obstacles, i

Re: [css-d] em-based typographic grid

2008-04-20 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > I must be missing something essential, but why would you do this? I can > see the point in using a baseline grid on printed pages, especially in > publications containing facing pages, but what do you expect to gain > from a grid on a web page? Why not? :)

Re: [css-d] em-based typographic grid

2008-04-20 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Rafael wrote: > Aleksandar Vacić wrote: > First example: you can't successfully combine two or more font > families. font-size-adjust has been wiped out of CSS 2.1because it never > got implemented (aside from Fx) and it was pretty much the only way we > could have r

Re: [css-d] em-based typographic grid

2008-04-20 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
David Laakso wrote: > Have you tested at minimum font-size 24px (FF) / 32px (Opera)? Not really. That's like double the original size, seems a bit too much. I don't quite understand the minimum - why different for FF and Opera? What did you mean by "minimum"? -- AV

Re: [css-d] em-based typographic grid

2008-04-20 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > I'm not exactly a design or typography purist, so bear that in mind. I like > your work-in-progress; although I feel the p font size is a bit small, > especially compared with the headers or subheaders in the copy. Perhaps you > are following a specific typographic standa

Re: [css-d] IE6 rendering of nested ul: three issues

2008-04-19 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Darren Best wrote: >- Primary problem - nested lists don't display correctly, particularly >the 2nd line item beneath "Services" and "Workshops" (extra bottom padding, >hover quirks). Curiously, nested list beneath "Resources" works fine! Use the float:left + some width, for I

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish Dropdown menu with opacity

2008-04-19 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Cristian Palmas wrote: > After I added opacity feature for the second and the third level lists > in order to make the banner be visible under the transparency of the > menu. > > But in IE6/Win the > third level disappears totally. This is the guilty part: > I added this portion of code:

Re: [css-d] CSS Drop-Down in IE6?

2008-04-19 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi: > Has anyone come up with a css drop-down menu that works in both IE7 *and* > IE6? Is it even possible? I see Chris Case tried as much, and no one seems > to have responded to his post... I have a menu [1] that's being used for ages and continually improved [2]

[css-d] em-based typographic grid

2008-04-19 Thread Aleksandar Vacić
Last few weeks I was picking up on the various articles I read about grids and web typography and went on to create basis for all future web sites I do. It came up to this - a grid measured in ems + basics of typography (headers, blockquotes, lists etc). http://aplus.co.yu/css/e