[css-d] Unequal float heights

2008-10-21 Thread Alex Robinson
I want to float a list so: - 1. Text 2. More text - 3. Text 3 4. Text that wraps onto another line - 5. Text 5 6. Text 6 with bo

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: negative absolute positioning bad for SEO?

2008-05-15 Thread Alex Robinson
>As far as I know, Bob Easton was credited with the off-left technique >-- here's what happened to him: > >http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/19/off-left-banned-by-google/ > >It's something to consider. What? Not letting your site get hacked? Tedd, I think you've missed the punchline of Bob's

Re: [css-d] Good javascript list like this on?

2008-04-17 Thread Alex Robinson
At 08:51 -0700 17/4/08, John wrote: >I apologize for any off-topicness this question represents.. >Can anybody recommend a javascript mail list of the same caliber as >this list? Have a look at the wiki's Off Topic page - it has useful links to other mailing lists http://css-discuss.incutio.

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: SEO and CSS

2008-04-03 Thread Alex Robinson
At 12:36 -0400 2/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Are there any good resources on the best way to create a >standards/accessible totally CSS website with maximum Search Engine >Optimization? In other >words, how can I create a site using only xhtml and css and ensure >that it will >be found in t

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-16 Thread Alex Robinson
>Alex, have you found that link about the vector thing being broken? No :( And now the top hit on Google for X-UA and conditional comments is... ... this very thread! I'll keep looking. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Robinson
>> Can anyone please confirm that the real IE7 will show blue, blue, >> green, green and red on all test pages? >> >> > >Confirming. Those colors are what the real IE7 shows. /aol Me too!

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:24 -0700 14/3/08, Alan Gresley wrote: >This is real problem if an author decides that IE8 should to go into >IE7 mode and render like the true IE7. No conditional comments meant >for IE7 are used. Microsoft have said "Developers, you must use conditional comments, you must use X-UA, thes

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Robinson
>I noticed this when I added conditional comments to my XU-A tests That is, that IE8 matches the conditional comment "if IE 8" regardless of what X-UA target you set. Sorry. I knew what I meant, but forgot that not everyone has access to the inside of my head...

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Robinson
>http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html >does not show the generated content, but the Conditional Comment for _IE8_ >Is this expected? Even if the X-UA-Compatible is set to "IE=7", the >conditional comment acts as if this is IE8? I noticed this when I added conditional comments to my XU-A tests

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: New CSS/html tools?..

2008-03-11 Thread Alex Robinson
.com/?page=CssEditors Discussion of editors stays there please. ie. this thread now over. Thanks. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://cs

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Robinson
>I've seen a couple of other cases (not related to parsing/selectors >problems but to rendering) where IE8 quirks is equal to IE7 quirks >when this differs from IE6 quirks. Also, I just noticed (again, this may be old news by now) that fieldsets and input buttons (and presumably all form elemen

Re: [css-d] Curious question inspired by the X-UA compatible thread

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Robinson
At 22:36 -1000 9/3/08, david wrote: >If you have an HTML document that happens to contain another HTML >document in an iframe - and one of the two documents triggers quirks >mode when rendered by itself - is each one rendered in the same mode or >does the browser somehow do one in standards mode an

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Alex Robinson
>You now have your quirks mode documents with no doctype. >If I put in a quirks mode doctype (HTML 4.01 Transitional, no url) >then IE8 behavior in those two cases changes. It sees the *+html, as >with a standard doctype, like the X-UA IE=8 or 7 overrode the quirks >mode of the document. This is mo

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
>At this point I think it's hard to say if with "X_UA IE=5"IE8 is >emulating IE7 quirks or IE6 quirks, simply because the two are hardly >distinguishable (I guess is more IE7 than IE6.) Yes, my previous claim that we know it's IE6 was founded on the assumption that I was serving quirks mode

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
>I mostly agree, but not on the "Rendered by IE 7" and "quirks" >combinations. Your documents now have an xml declaration at the >beginning which puts IE6 in quirks mode, but NOT IE7. >The "Rendered by IE 7" row should be exactly as the "Rendered by IE 6" row. The screengrabs I'm using are exactly

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
>> In IE6 all lines are of equal length. So this would mean that IE8 >>is emulating the quirks modes different to how >> IE6 and IE7 handle quirks mode. Is this correct? Nope. Or rather I don't think so. I think your original suggestion was correct. ie. IE=5 actually causes IE8 to emulate IE6

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
>> Of course, I believe you, but I'm having difficulty tracking down >> where Microsoft say this. Any pointers? > >Not yet, but I'm 100% certain this is the case. Ah, ok. I see the answer in liorean's post. In the white paper / technology overview http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.

[css-d] Old friends - IE8 suffers from fuzzy specificity

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
... as all previous versions of IE have done http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/hacks/fuzzyspecificity (Reported to the Microsoft beta forum) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
>>IE8 cannot emulate IE6, only IE5 and 7. WTF? So IE=6 is actually the same as IE=5. Genius. Of course, I believe you, but I'm having difficulty tracking down where Microsoft say this. Any pointers? >> 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. > >Which parsing errors exactly? Th

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Can someone confirm that the results sh

Re: [css-d] New IE8 page on the wiki

2008-03-06 Thread Alex Robinson
>http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE8 > >Is this a comprehensive IE8 page? Or, is it meant only for IE8 Beta? Please >clarify these things on that page. It's meant to be comprehensive, ie from gestation to birth (and on to death?) of IE8, betas, release candidates, finals and all. Take a loo

[css-d] New IE8 page on the wiki

2008-03-06 Thread Alex Robinson
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE8 A very quick dump, slash and burn of the old IE7 page to get things rolling. Please help get things into shape and, please please please, record anything of interest that you discover about IE8. Good work already Ingo and co! Cheers Alex css-d moderat

Re: [css-d] reply-to address

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Robinson
At 20:39 +0300 14/2/08, Ibrahim Y wrote: >Hi folks, > >I hope this never been discussed before... Guess what... >I noticed when I want to reply to >any email from the list that the default "reply-to" address is the email of >the sender not the list, So, every time I have to reply-all or add the l

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC - STOP THIS THREAD] Re: ASP.NET and http://validator.w3.org/

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 13:40 -0800 6/2/08, Big Moxy wrote: >The w3 validator clearly is not compatible with Microsoft ASP.NET code. >Here is an example - http://www.cargovango.com/start.aspx. All of the >code that it flags is generated at run time. It's nothing that a >developer adds. > >It's annoying because I can ne

Re: [css-d] Transitional Vs. Strict Doctype

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 09:46 -0800 6/2/08, Elli Vizcaino wrote: >Hello List, > >Not sure if this would fall under off topic. But I >wanted to know what the reasons are for using a strict >doc type as opposed to transitional. I use strict in >my documents but wondered why it seems to be a bad >idea to go with transitio

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Fonts in Vista & Office 2007

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 21:50 -0700 5/2/08, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: >I installed Office 2007 on my box at work and really like some of the new >fonts that came with it. > >http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-new-microsoft-fonts/ > >Anyone know if you can buy them separately somewhere? (I really do

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: hand coders vs wsywig coders...I had no idea

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Robinson
>So do most of you guys hand code? Or do you use a wsywig editor to help? Sorry Scott, but this is off topic. It's not that it's not an interesting topic, but rather that this list has 8500+ members and a purpose to discuss CSS, rather than one's choice of editor / scripting language / operatin

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: [OT] who do I have to sleep with...

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Robinson
At 16:08 -0700 24/1/08, Dean Mah wrote: >That would be an issue to take up with the css-d owner and moderators. > evolt.org takes not manage the list, we only host it. > >There must be reasons for the list being completely moderated and I >would suspect that the amount of time that a message is he

Re: [css-d] [OT] who do I have to sleep with...

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Robinson
>Back to my point, who/where do I send inquiries about the list management. >There are no points-of-contact on ANY of pages linked to in the footers >tagged onto the messages. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That's odd, I thought it used to be on the page referenced at the bottom of every single post

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Alex Robinson
A combination of display:table (Mozilla, Opera) and display:inline-block (IE) can cause a wrapper around floats to shrink-to-fit and thus be made amenable to being centered. However, Safari (neither 2 nor 3) does not do the shrink wrapping and so no centering occurs. As far as I know - I'd love

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Clients new site built in tables

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Robinson
>So here's the problem, my client is an agency that uses me for design >work and I think they've >wrongly invested their clients money on a table based site, when it >should be all css. > >Anyone had a similar problem? This is off topic since it isn't a question about the nuts and bolts of actua

[css-d] [ADMIN - TOTALLY OUT OF ORDER] Re: Revisit our navigation layout semantic.

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Robinson
yone else, please stay out of this thread until Mark has actually made his points politely and cogently. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: denying the downloading of img

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Robinson
or why the problem is not a problem since it is not on topic for this list. This thread is now closed. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/F

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Selecting CSS file depending on Server using the HTML Page

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Robinson
be bothered to figure out where would be the right place to ask this question" forum. No more posts to this thread please. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailma

Re: [css-d] list-item markers vertical-align: top ???

2007-12-09 Thread Alex Robinson
>I want the marker centered on the first line of list-item text. The basic idea is as follows: ul { list-style-type: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; } li { background-image: url(bullet.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-left: 15px; } replacing the image url and padding-left with suit

[css-d] [ADMIN - PLEASE READ] was Re: problems with CSS and floats

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Robinson
members a little bit more about how CSS works." Finally, but most importantly, are these words of Eric's from the list policies which I think need repeating: "Above all, if you can't answer with a modicum of respect, or without feeling somehow an

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: Rules for generating valid CSS

2007-12-06 Thread Alex Robinson
>My four rules are: > >1. No tags within tags. >2. No , , to , , or tags inside tags. >3. No tags inside or tags. >4. No empty tags. > >Are those rules sensible from a validation point of view? This is about markup and validation of the resulting HTML and really doesn't have anything to

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: php sthe switcher for multiple style sheets

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Robinson
d yes, other search engine companies do exist), but the following query should get you started... http://www.google.com/search?q=css+style+switch+php Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: [css-d] link image background problem w/IE 6 (natch)

2007-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
>Please note that display:inline-block in invalid CSS2.1 but is valid CSS3. Actually it's valid CSS2.1 but not valid CSS2. Compare http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#display-prop __

Re: [css-d] Reliable Opera-only filter?

2007-10-06 Thread Alex Robinson
>Rare is the day Opera gets it wrong. > >@media screen and (min-width: 0px){ >#foo { padding: ... ;} >} This is hardly a long term fix. Safari 3 (due for release along with the next version of OS X within the next couple of weeks) will support media queries. To exclude it (and other browsers u

Re: [css-d] text leaders

2007-09-20 Thread Alex Robinson
>> I would like to have solid color leader before some text: In addition to Georg's (as always) sterling efforts, the css-d wiki has a few takes on dot leaders. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DotLeaders It should be fairly easy to figure out how to transform them from dotted to solid

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Do we like the same books?

2007-09-13 Thread Alex Robinson
... >It is against Shelfari's policies to invite people who you don't >know directly. ... As well as being utterly off topic. Buddhamagnet is now an ex-member of the list. Let this be a warning to any other css-d member who thinks spamming the list is a good way to kick start their social netw

Re: [css-d] * in css

2007-09-11 Thread Alex Robinson
* is the unversal selector. That means it matches all elements. And that means all elements (including html, head, body etc) #foo * selects any element which is a descendant of #foo. >my guess is that the double asterisk is a typo or misunderstanding of >css selectors. No. It's a common tri

Re: [css-d] IE6 Content Duplication

2007-08-30 Thread Alex Robinson
>Most probably it is related to the double html comments in your file. >Remove them. I've also found that using Conditional Comments (with the condition being anything but IE) works too If you absolutely must have the comments, that is.

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: color consistency, accuracy

2007-08-26 Thread Alex Robinson
>I *do* think this >is a CSS related problem just because we are so often trying to match >text, borders, blocks of background color (all specified with CSS) to >images which are generated from some image editing program or another. Off topic - no more on this subject please (except that as I'm a

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Any good books on XSL?

2007-08-10 Thread Alex Robinson
At 21:50 -1000 9/8/07, david wrote: >Any good books on XSL? > >At work, I'm going to need to be learning about XSL. Any good books? This has absolutely nothing to do with CSS. If anyone has any suggestions for David, they should send them to him directly. But no replies to the list, please.

Re: [css-d] Ways to create css pages

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Robinson
At 08:47 -0700 2/8/07, trevor bayliss wrote: > Just a quick question to get some: when you design pages do you do >it directly from notepad? I was thinking about the merits of using >the dreamweaver tools to design the layout with divs and then get >changing the code. Alternatively do people ha

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: When to use Image Replacement

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Robinson
>so what's best practice for something like >this? A good question, but one that has nothing to do with CSS per se. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic lists several other mailing lists where you might be better off asking such a question. Anyone with ant=ything to say to Lee on

Re: [css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Robinson
> In my footer i have links that in the hover state are underlined. I can't see which links you mean. Could you be a bit more specific about ones you're on about? It's possible that you have been bitten by what I call fuzzy specificity http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/hacks/fuzzyspecificity _

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: How would you semanticly write this? Layout

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Robinson
> i was wondering whats the best way to semanticly write and style >this "List". > >Example: > >http://www.ceudex.de/test/content_events.jpg Martin [css-d] does not exist to discuss how you should go about marking up your content, but rather how to apply CSS to that markup. Semantics (and acc

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN] Re: white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Robinson
>This entire "list etiquette argument" could have been avoided... But it wasn't. If you disagree with me or feel you have anything to say about list etiquette, then please write to the moderators' address and make your disagreement/opinions known there. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But not on list,

Re: [css-d] white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Robinson
>Just trying to reduce speculations :-) >Here: > http://www.brunildo.org/test/test/IEhoverdesc.html ... >In IE6 only the first works. Right, thanks for that Bruno. A most excellent test case. At last we have an actual sighting of the beast we've been hunting and can confirm that there is a bug

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Robinson
Sigh. I went off to peel some mangoes and didn't get round to posting the message that follows this. And I return to find it all kicking off. All I have to add to my message is that people should not engage in arguments about list etiquette on the list. Since it's part of the list etiquette no

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Mail sent not getting through

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:12 +0100 5/7/07, Marcus Taylor wrote: >No. All good for me... > > >On 5/7/07 11:10, "kate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anyone having problems with mail delivery to the list? >> Thanks >> Kate From http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html >>> If you suddenly stop receiving list mai

Re: [css-d] Thread answered:What is the equivalent of font-size:11px?

2007-06-29 Thread Alex Robinson
>But a really good way to get >consistent fonts is to set >body { >font-size:62.5% >} > >This along with other resets makes all your fonts equivalent to 10px. >This not only allows you to make nice em sizes like 1.2em for 12 px >etc. As long as the default font size in the user's agent is such th

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Word HTML Cleanup tools?

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Robinson
>Anyone have a better solution? Yes. Posting to a general web development list rather than one which is specifically concerned with the practical application of CSS. You can find numerous useful lists here: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic And of course, there's always Goog

[css-d] [ADMIN - THIS THREAD HAS SLID WAY OFF TOPIC] Re: "Weak" layout

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Robinson
OK folks, enough is enough. Opinions about how browsers should handle zooming and text-resizing are not what this list exists for. Nor does the list exist for opinions about whether to use scalable or fixed sizes. Questions and help about how to achieve scalable or fixed solutions on the othe

[css-d] [ADMIN - PHP IS OFF TOPIC] Re: multiple similar pages with same navigation bar

2007-06-05 Thread Alex Robinson
ing rate of change that we see on teh interwebs, that remains true today... Alex Robinson css-d moderator and still point of the turning world __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Importing style sheets and vhosts

2007-05-31 Thread Alex Robinson
til we have a URL this is an Apache configuration issue, not a CSS one. And if that is the case, it's off topic here, and an Apache list would be a much better place to ask. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [E

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Web Standards - Why do we do it?

2007-05-31 Thread Alex Robinson
At 07:51 -0700 31/5/07, Jon Hughes wrote: >Let me preface this email with this: I do not seek to bloat this list >with discussion not related to CSS problems, so if you reply, use your >discretion as to whether you reply directly to me, or include the list. If you know (or even suspect) that your

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: IE7 a la Dean Edwards

2007-05-17 Thread Alex Robinson
Actually there is quite a lot of stuff about Dean's IE7 on the web http://www.google.com/search?q=%22dean+edwards%22+ie7 At 14:16 -0700 16/5/07, Doug Jolley wrote: > >So, that brings me to my question which is: Does anyone know what's going >on with DEIE7 and whether or not it's usable with

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Popups and script blocker in IE7

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:25 -0400 11/5/07, jana coyle wrote: >I am developing a site using a client side shopping cart. It >requires cookies to be enabled and uses some Javascript. IE7 blocks >the cart when it pops up and also blocks the script associated with >the cart. Is there anything I can do about this?

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Please remove me from this list.

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Robinson
that gives the same information. Everybody else, return to your positions, be they absolute, static, fixed or relative... Best wishes Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discus

[css-d] [ADMIN - NO MORE IE6 IS DEAD/ALIVE COMMENTS] Re: Site check: formever.org

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Robinson
matter how well intentioned you might be, no one likes unsolicited smart aleck responses to questions they didn't even ask. So, anyhow, like the subject says, let's have no more of this IE6 is dead / alive / just resting nonse

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE6 really is dead to me. Here is why.

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Robinson
so. Css-d frowns on opinions about the future state of CSS/browsers. We're here to discuss practical matters - there are plenty of other forums where people can and are welcome to vent off about why IE is teh big suck... http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PostingGuidelines Alex

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: cms CSS/XHTML

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Robinson
our time. This is off topic.The list wiki has some info that might be of interest to you though: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssFriendlyCms Please, no more posts on this subject Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-d

Re: [css-d] moderator - Can i mention an amazing new app for css? - I don't want to break the rules.

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Robinson
the list works. The moderators' address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Safari miscalculating "bottom" for absolute positioning

2007-03-26 Thread Alex Robinson
Zoe, the problem seems to be related to #project-areas and #latest-news. Remove those two blocks and the problem goes away. As do the two blocks. Of the two blocks it's #project-areas which is doing the most damage. Try setting #project-areas p and #project-areas ul to display: none to see wha

Re: [css-d] IE7 special code

2007-03-23 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:34 + 23/3/07, Barney Carroll wrote: >Wow! I've been under the false supposition that IE7 did not 'believe' in >the nameless super-html object. > >How is it, then, that this works while the simple '* html' selector does >not? Because while Microsoft fixed * html they introduced another p

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Inline paragraph with headers

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
At 10:02 -0700 8/3/07, Michael Stevens wrote: >WOW! That's pretty tight administration... I haven't seen a response yet >that didn't have something to do with CSS. I beg to differ. However, until Eric shows up and says I was wrong, right or something in between, can people please not leap into th

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Inline paragraph with headers

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
>Actually, I think in this case (if it is a proper H5 tag), I'd go with: > >Jeff Altemus - Director First and Second week > >and *then* add display:inline to the H5. etc, etc, etc I'm going to pass over the fact that some of these suggestions have been truly gruesome and move straight to the re

[css-d] [ADMIN] Apologies for spam appearing on list

2007-02-15 Thread Alex Robinson
Dear list You may have noticed a couple of spams appear on the list within the last hour. Someone is obviously taking the time to subscribe to the list since only messages from subscribed addresses get through to the list. Unfortunately, unless the message goes above 20k in size, there's no wa

[css-d] [ADMIN - please read if replying to this thread] Re: expert system for CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Alex Robinson
>2) what do people think of trying to encode all this data / case >studies on this list into some sort of expert system - i am thinking >something where you could type in keywords or a description of your >problem and the system serves of possible useful info and examples of >problems solved? If

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Any way to remove MouseOver flicker in IE? (going slightly OT)

2007-02-07 Thread Alex Robinson
cutio.com/?page=OffTopic Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.i

Re: [css-d] Any way to remove MouseOver flicker in IE?

2007-02-07 Thread Alex Robinson
>> It's so slow I can watch the status bar as it says it's downloading the >> rollover image... again... and again... and again... >> >> Is there a solution? Painful I know, but fortunately the answer is that, yes, you can make those pesky flickers go away http://www.fivesevensix.com/studies

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Problem of color respect

2007-02-01 Thread Alex Robinson
>Is there a way to force a navigator to display the same colours and >contrats as the original ? (I suppose of course that the screen is able >to display all the colors that are required) Samuel, I am afraid that this has nothing to do with CSS and has no place on this list. I suggest that you a

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Javascript Bookmarking in Safari

2007-01-19 Thread Alex Robinson
At 12:46 -0500 19/1/07, Geoff Krajeski wrote: >Does anyone know a method to bookmark in Safari using Javascript? I'm >using this function currently, but cannot seem to find anything on a >working model for adding in Safari/Mac: This list is for the discussion of CSS and CSS alone. Please take t

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: [OFF-TOPIC] HTML email, R.I.P.

2007-01-11 Thread Alex Robinson
At 17:20 + 11/1/07, Barney Carroll wrote: >This is clearly off-topic to CSS discussion While I agree that the bulk of Brian's message was not really on topic, the news about IE7's baby brother's html rendering is definitely worth its place on the list. That link again in case anyone didn't

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: PR and the like

2007-01-08 Thread Alex Robinson
promoting a website beyond adwords? such as free >press release sites, good banner exchanges etc? Please send any such info to Terry directly. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discus

Re: [css-d] Width and border issues-simple, I think

2007-01-08 Thread Alex Robinson
At 14:29 + 8/1/07, Barney Carroll wrote: >Under the strictest rules, all negative number values for measurement >are illegal. Not true. "Negative values for margin properties are allowed, but there may be implementation-specific limits." http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#margin-proper

Re: [css-d] Unclickable password field

2006-12-22 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:04 + 22/12/06, Barney Carroll wrote: >[http://bssh.test.textmatters.com/login/login_form] > >This is driving me absolutely insane. Under IE6, the password field is >not clickable. I'm told this can't be anything other than a CSS issue, >and I'm tempted to agree, although nothing I've trie

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: ? ? Site building with upload for text ? ?

2006-12-21 Thread Alex Robinson
At 14:29 + 21/12/06, Phil Turner wrote: >Thanks David, its sorted. > >I have to quote on a job and Does anyone know if its possible to >build css sites where the client can upload their own text? > >The simpler the better. I'm afraid that this question isn't really about CSS and s

Re: [css-d] Reference a form script in css somehow?

2006-12-07 Thread Alex Robinson
>--is there a ways to insert by adding the cose below to jablum's >css file? > > > > > > > > Stephanie, I'm afraid you appear to misunderstand what CSS is and what CSS can do. I suggest that you would be much better off taking your question to the jalbum forums where I

Re: [css-d] One True Layout & anchors

2006-12-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 23:29 -0500 5/12/06, Diona Kidd wrote: >Btw, has anyone implemented the One True Layout [1] and anchor links? >I thought there might be a javascript or css solution for this short- >coming but didn't have an idea on it. I presume you've read the relevant appendix: http://www.positionisevery

Re: [css-d] Not sure how to do this in CSS.

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Robinson
>.square20 { width: 20px; height: 20px; } >.rect1040 { width: 40px; height: 10px; } > >#a1 { top: 30px; left: 100px; } >#a2 { top: 50px; left: 50px; width: 20px; height: 50px; } >#a3 { top: 50px; left: 100px; } Actually, I think that's more complex than needs be You don't need to specify the wid

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages

2006-11-28 Thread Alex Robinson
>As the design & planning forerunners of this project, my colleague and I >have begun to look toward ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages as a solution to >designing templates for the entire website. ASP and Master Pages don't have very much to do with CSS, so please take this question somewhere more suitab

[css-d] [ADMIN] Requests and bug reports about the list or wiki

2006-11-28 Thread Alex Robinson
Daniel Kabs wrote: >How about enabling raw HTML for this Tavi WIKI installation so one can add >examples inside wiki pages? francky wrote: >But while I can edit and change other pages without problems, the >Frontpage itself seems to be a >restricted area: possib

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: expanding submenu

2006-11-23 Thread Alex Robinson
Step away from the microphone... ...and relax The relative merits of CSS vs Javascript for creating menus are neither here nor there and the merits of particular javascript libraries are completely off the radar. As this thread has nothing to do with the practical nuts and bolts of CSS, it

Re: [css-d] CSS/Dreamweaver question

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
At 10:45 -0700 16/11/06, Michael Stevens wrote: >I don't think this is a Dreamweaver question. > >It looks to me as though she's asking what the difference or benefit is >between formatting a paragraph as an element or formatting it by class="SanText90Centered"> when h3 and .SanText90Centered are

Re: [css-d] CSS/Dreamweaver question

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
Karen It would be better to ask such a question on a Dreamweaver mailing list, since this is a Dreamweaver-related question and not a CSS one. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14240 If anyone wants to answer Karen, please do so offlist. Alex css-d moderator _

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Consistent Cross platform font size

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
My apologies to the list - my instinct was wrong and I held off from stepping in earlier to stop this thread. >This is getting way off-topic now, so I'm going to leave it at that. If you ever find yourself writing something like the above... ... STOP! DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT COLLECT 200 CSS-D

Re: [css-d] Triangles with content

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Robinson
At 08:43 -0500 9/11/06, Richard Pierce wrote: >Thanks codepo. That would work if I could predefine the color triangles I >want. Unfortunately, I can't- the colors need to be a user defineable >option. I suppose I should have clarified- the colors of the triangles, as >well as the text floating on t

[css-d] [ADMIN- OFF TOPIC] Re: Blowtorches at the ready...

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Robinson
>You're right, of course. But as much as this string isn't about chunks >of code per se I think it's extremely important to discuss these issues >(I believe you do too?) which I have found to be taboo in the community >- but I think this is the place to have it (admin correct me here)... If >not, w

Re: [css-d] Specifying CSS definition via HTML attributes & IE6

2006-10-22 Thread Alex Robinson
>Attribute selectors are part of CSS 2. >http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#attribute-selectors Whoops - David is absolutely right. It was only Substring matching attribute selectors that got added in CSS3. I plain forgot that attribute selectors predated that.

Re: [css-d] Specifying CSS definition via HTML attributes & IE6

2006-10-20 Thread Alex Robinson
>I have definitions like the one below... Which IE6 simply doesn't seem >to acknowledge. > >form[id="resourceSelector"] .resource.left >{clear: left; margin-right: 2em;} > >Any help? As Christian has just pointed out, IE6 doesn't understand CSS3 attribute selectors (sidenote: IE7 does). However

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE7 release

2006-10-19 Thread Alex Robinson
all of the existence of the IE7 page on the wiki. But let's lay off the whole $COMPANY rants please. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d I

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Are CSS Drop-down Menus Searchable

2006-10-05 Thread Alex Robinson
ity is low even >without AJAX involved. OK, that's enough. This thread has gone far far enough. The usability of css menus is not really on topic. The desirability of ajaxing menus is definitely not. Please continue this discussion off list where it belongs. Alex R

Re: [css-d] Named Anchor and disappearing menu

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Robinson
I did come up with a fix for Gecko gang which I posted here along with reservations http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/77165 >Sent to fast, forgot something or two. > >1/ the same problems affect recent WebKit (future Safari) builds and >the just release Omniweb5.5. > >2/ Nob

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: CSS best practice?

2006-08-31 Thread Alex Robinson
one has anything further to add, please add it to the wiki page rather than on list. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: Are table-less layouts important - why?

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Robinson
At 13:27 -0700 17/8/06, Thomas Hall wrote: >I was asked this question today by a fellow designer - "Is there an >advantage to the non-use of tables in SEO?" As I am not sure how to best >answer this question I thought I'd solicit the opinions of you experts. >Thanks for any help on this. Tom I'm

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