Re: [css-d] Using Modernizr html classes

2015-02-04 Thread Barney Carroll
entListener( 'touchstart', addClass ); } ) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 4 February 2015 at 00:10, Tom Livingston wrote: > Thanks Philippe > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:05 PM Philippe Wittenbergh > wrote: > &

Re: [css-d] keyframe:hover

2015-01-13 Thread Barney Carroll
/cvys8e4n/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 13 January 2015 at 15:44, Tedd Sperling wrote: > On Jan 11, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Crest Christopher > wrote: > > > > I want to create an animated:hover with @keyframe using these three >

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Barney Carroll
I'm amazed it took this long for a link to the W3 validator to creep into the conversation. Maybe if we keep at it the list archives will trump w3schools in search results? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 11 January 2015 at 16:22

Re: [css-d] Fwd: [Bug 977063] Colors that are part of font family names are not shown as text in DevTools Inspector/Rules

2014-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
The email digest isn't overly intelligible, but from looking at the last posts on the linked threads it seems 1049436 was closed as a duplicate of 977063. Couldn't find your name in either thread from a text search, so I don't know which one is yours… ___

Re: [css-d] NOT centering text in the center!

2014-12-17 Thread Barney Carroll
ng to most description. BTW to avoid laborious load > copy > pasting into validation services, you can get a direct HTTP reference to jsbin markup via http://jsbin.com/{bin#}/{revision#} Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 17 December 20

Re: [css-d] NOT centering text in the center!

2014-12-17 Thread Barney Carroll
Salut Faramineux, You can use display inline-block, left 50% (relative to offset parent) and transform translateX( -50% ) (relative to self) to achieve this effect with variable width: http://jsbin.com/ruwada/1/edit?css,output Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

Re: [css-d] matrix3D

2014-11-27 Thread Barney Carroll
ather than byte-saving – it's easier for most people to rationalise and express a scale or a translation than it is to mentally model a matrix. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 27 November 2014 at 03:38, Crest Christopher wrote: >

Re: [css-d] validating CSS when?

2014-11-25 Thread Barney Carroll
On Tuesday, 25 November 2014, Philip Taylor wrote: > …HTML 5, but ONLY if new elements such as , or are > required. > That's an interesting approach. Any particular reason not to use HTML5 at all times? -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 bar

Re: [css-d] validating CSS when?

2014-11-25 Thread Barney Carroll
> > I only run stylesheets through the validator when: 1) I can not find one > of my own "disable this declaration" markers, 2) I can not manage to debug > a problem in browsers locally, and/or 3) I have to share my CSS code with a > developer who is paranoid when it comes to validity -- something

Re: [css-d] validating CSS when?

2014-11-25 Thread Barney Carroll
ator [2] https://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-css-validator Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 25 November 2014 at 15:50, MiB wrote: > > As I often feel inclined to use vendor-prefixes in order to meet business > requirements, my CSS t

Re: [css-d] site makeover

2014-10-30 Thread Barney Carroll
the layout collapses to linear, they look like calls to action to indicate nested content (subsections, or something). Might be worth hiding them on the smaller media queries? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 30 October 2014 15:29, David Laa

Re: [css-d] Why there is a space between two

2014-10-13 Thread Barney Carroll
Because they are inline-block, they adopt some of the properties of inline text: since there is white space between the divs in the HTML, it's also appearing in the rendered document. You could edit the HTML to remove the space (as seen here: http://jsfiddle.net/barney/d2zh48cy/) or use some of th

Re: [css-d] OT : links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
at removing all prefixed properties from the application lifecycle altogether. Thanks for prompting! [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0313.html On 7 Oct 2014 14:52, "Ms2ger" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/07/2014 0

Re: [css-d] OT : links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
onality. The term 'document' barely applies, and the use-cases are so esoteric and business-critical that the client will happily use a specific browser version in order to guarantee expected behaviour. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarro

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
be I'm just a sucker for punishment ;) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 7 October 2014 12:48, Philip Taylor wrote: > > Barney Carroll wrote: > > This begs the question: how much should one expound on browsers that one >

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
Yeah, the impression I get it is that they're not really concerned about CSS validity. They do care about HTML validity, though – they use an automated validation reporter (no more having to open email, scan email for URL, paste URL into validator, copy link into email reply, hit send) for their is

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
be a really good > first step to solving the problem. > > [1] > https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/javascript-debugging#sources-panel > On 6 Oct 2014 18:07, "Karl DeSaulniers" wrote: > >> So in other words. Philip is teaching to fish. Not just giving you a fi

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-06 Thread Barney Carroll
o fish. Not just giving you a fish. > > Kudos Philip! > > Best, > Karl > > Sent from losPhone > > > On Oct 6, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Barney Carroll wrote: > > > >> CSS discuss often reminds me

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-06 Thread Barney Carroll
code prevents touch events from resolving on `.hover` panels. Remove the `e.preventDefault()` invocation on line 22 and the links are functional. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 6 October 2014 09:44, Philip Taylor wrote: > > > Bob Sc

Re: [css-d] Ready for Pre-processors?

2014-04-27 Thread Barney Carroll
t this is worth taking action over. But that's true of anything: pre-processors are definitely not scornful of this attitude; they offer a way to sustematise it. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com ___

Re: [css-d] Equal-length columns - display: table-cell OK?

2014-04-09 Thread Barney Carroll
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x"; } } Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists

Re: [css-d] Firefox and page inflation

2014-04-07 Thread Barney Carroll
Please forgive the impertinent lurker here, but could somebody weigh in with why relative measures are necessary when the desired outcome is pixel-level accuracy? -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] Centering a group of floated thumbnails (which are in a responsive width design)

2014-03-13 Thread Barney Carroll
Put display: block and text-align: center back on .progress-gallery-images and display: inline-block back on .progress-gallery-image (and removed their float: left), and it just worked! http://jsfiddle.net/barney/Uuw29/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

Re: [css-d] rotate image CSS3?

2014-03-04 Thread Barney Carroll
Take any one of those results. Copy the code that rotates the image (it will have the 'rotate' keyword in it). Leave out the code that animates the rotation (it will have the keywords 'animation' or 'transition' in it). __ css-disc

Re: [css-d] Will the unsemantic HTML elements B and I be soon phased out?

2014-02-17 Thread Barney Carroll
While bikeshedding around 'how semantic' people feel any given element to be is a great laugh (although definitely off-topic for this list), I would highly recommend the HTML specification for insight into the purpose of any HTML element, especially when confusion arises over the possibility of usi

Re: [css-d] Will the unsemantic HTML elements B and I be soon phased out?

2014-02-16 Thread Barney Carroll
/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __

Re: [css-d] nth of type issue

2014-01-24 Thread Barney Carroll
Confirmed: closing tags aren't optional: http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080601/optional-tags-in-html-4/ Regards, Barney Carroll __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-19 Thread Barney Carroll
gards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 19 November 2013 15:40, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 11/19/13, 6:01 AM, MiB wrote: > >> >> nov 19 2013 14.55 Barney Carroll: >> >> David has discovered a bug in Chrome 31 whe

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-19 Thread Barney Carroll
On 19 November 2013 14:01, MiB wrote: > I can't vouch for hover as I don't see this element to begin with in > Chrome 31. > That's very interesting. This is what I get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyGy47YNHc Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@g

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-19 Thread Barney Carroll
tl;dr: David has discovered a bug in Chrome 31 whereby rules featuring concurrent positioning pseudo-classes on the same element are removed from the DOM when the affected element is hovered. In his example, you can see this happen by hovering over the second list item and watching the caret disapp

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-17 Thread Barney Carroll
www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > > Works for me. Version 28.0.1500.71 OS 10.7.5 > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > __ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org ] > http://www.cs

Re: [css-d] Checking up on buggy behavior in latest Google Chrome versions.

2013-11-15 Thread Barney Carroll
max-height: 999em (or something equally large), then using transitions on that property? Chuck opacity in and you've basically retired jQuery ;) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com ___

Re: [css-d] RWD Swap content images

2013-10-31 Thread Barney Carroll
___ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org ] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supp

Re: [css-d] HTML email question

2013-10-17 Thread Barney Carroll
k, per version. [1] http://www.campaignmonitor.com/guides/mobile/ [2] http://stylecampaign.com/ [3] http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@li

Re: [css-d] Start at the bottom! (was "Front page breaking in IE8, maybe 9 too")

2013-10-09 Thread Barney Carroll
lines beginning with variable numbers of '>', with hard returns all over the place. Ironically I wasn't all that interested in this thread until it became completely unreadable to me. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 17

Re: [css-d] margin-top on footer ineffectual?

2013-09-20 Thread Barney Carroll
ments does it start to take effect. Remove `clear: both` from the footer or `float: left` from the section and the problem is resolved. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 20 September 2013 15:16, John wrote: > On the page below, declarin

Re: [css-d] Bad web font display in Chrome and Opera?

2013-09-19 Thread Barney Carroll
incutio.com/> > List policies -- > http://css-discuss.org/**policies.html<http://css-discuss.org/policies.html> > Supported by evolt.org -- > http://www.evolt.org/help_**support_evolt/<http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/> > -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.c

Re: [css-d] iOS simulator vs FireFox?

2013-09-03 Thread Barney Carroll
A portrait-oriented iPhone viewport is 320 (CSS) pixels wide, but the view on the right is 480 wide (the same as a landscape-oriented iPhone viewport). I don't know where the 530 came from. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 3 September

Re: [css-d] How can I use position fixed in IE?

2013-08-30 Thread Barney Carroll
copy and paste the code locally to test :P -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Lis

Re: [css-d] How can I use position fixed in IE?

2013-08-30 Thread Barney Carroll
ments immediately inside the body, since the body never scrolls. I've written up a fiddle to demonstrate: http://jsfiddle.net/barney/zY8h8/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 30 August 2013 12:38, David Laakso wrote: > > > > O

Re: [css-d] CSS3 Animation Top Position Percent problem

2013-08-28 Thread Barney Carroll
mind that some kind of hack (involving a hidden duplicate with relative positioning above the real content div, then animating its max-height, maybe?) involving max-height might come in handy? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 28 August

Re: [css-d] Centering wide site on phones

2013-08-13 Thread Barney Carroll
barneycarroll.comwith a web inspector for a live example — and resize your browser a bit to see it in action. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css

Re: [css-d] Problem getting boxes to align

2013-06-25 Thread Barney Carroll
or IE's failure to handle table-cell display: position: relative; _left: 3px; _margin-right: 3px; Hope this helps! [1] Documentation: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki/Grids; Demo (without IE-specific code): http://jsfiddle.net/barney/7Bd8V/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.car

Re: [css-d] unfamiliar url reference

2013-06-06 Thread Barney Carroll
The # symbol in a URL indicates content within a resource - it is most often used to jump to content. For example, the following link will take you to the wikipedia page URI_scheme and scroll down to focus on the element with an ID of Generic_syntax: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme#Generic_syn

Re: [css-d] linear-gradient

2013-06-05 Thread Barney Carroll
This is one of those cases where the syntax is so convoluted and forked I can never remember it myself — but when I don't have SASS at my disposal I always go to this tool: www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ It even throws in IE filter and svg data-uri polyfills! On Jun 5, 2013 10:58 PM, "Angela

Re: [css-d] CSS3 Transitions

2013-05-13 Thread Barney Carroll
ules to be applied: http://www.apple.com/uk/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 23 April 2013 11:13, Anton Steiner wrote: > Hello > CSS3 transitions are very amazing and i would try it for a > search-bar. But the bar shoud exp

Re: [css-d] Image and background colour changes on hover.

2013-05-13 Thread Barney Carroll
PQhVn/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 8 May 2013 03:44, Anna Gav wrote: > Hi all > > Re: http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/703/sdfdsf.png > > I need to reproduce the functionality demonstrated in this image. The > require

Re: [css-d] trying to remove outline off of image map areas

2013-03-29 Thread Barney Carroll
Sadly, IE will need Javascript to achieve this, in the form of listening for the `focus` event for each such element and triggering `blur` on it. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listi

Re: [css-d] Can You Do This?

2013-03-05 Thread Barney Carroll
p-post (as I mistakenly did), and only to include past messages as part of your own unless you're replying inline (like this). Official list policies are here FYI: http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html > > > Barney Carroll Wrote : I'm sure what you're trying to do can

Re: [css-d] Can You Do This?

2013-03-05 Thread Barney Carroll
x27;t know what the intent of 'into place' is. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 5 March 2013 13:10, David wrote: > Hello, > Files is here: http://www.linkhomes2000.co.**uk/main/calculators/** > linkmortgagecalcstart_0

Re: [css-d] what is h1 small syntax?

2013-02-22 Thread Barney Carroll
On Feb 22, 2013 8:36 PM, "Jukka K. Korpela" wrote: > Apart from the issue whether it is a good ideas to size fonts in pixels, the question arises why one would use fractions of a pixel, in 24.5px, which might get rounded to 24px or 25px (or dealt with in some other way). One outlying possibility

Re: [css-d] desktop ie/9 windows 7

2013-02-13 Thread Barney Carroll
I believe you'd need to use IE's own transformation filters. Because there's a slight difference in implementation as regards assumed transformation point-of-origin, this tool comes in incredibly handy for doing the maths: http://www.useragentman.com/IETransformsTranslator/

Re: [css-d] Setting height relative to width

2013-02-11 Thread Barney Carroll
Ah no. This is the crux of it: you need additional markup for the scaffold. A parent with relativity and containment, a semantically useless child with the padding, and your second child taking advantage of the resulting shape to hold the genuine contents. I was thinking of adding the disclaimer: n

Re: [css-d] Setting height relative to width

2013-02-11 Thread Barney Carroll
Thierry wrote up an excellent technique for this that is incidentally very useful when scaling embedded media. The linked article frames it in that context, but the principles are the same: a padding property percentage will take relative width as its reference: alistapart.com/article/creating-int

Re: [css-d] display: table not working as expected

2013-02-07 Thread Barney Carroll
13 12:47, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > More colourful demo: > http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/bc_table-form.html > Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] IE8 stylesheet doesn't work even in the head tag

2012-12-23 Thread Barney Carroll
The CSS needs to be contained in a

Re: [css-d] no space between p tags

2012-12-20 Thread Barney Carroll
http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Regards

Re: [css-d] bullets not behaving

2012-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
Table layouts are really tough like that. You never know what's going to work! Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 14 December 2012 16:00, Dana B wrote: > I was mistaken -- Barney was correct. No more problem! > > Thanks!!!

Re: [css-d] bullets not behaving

2012-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
would allow normal line breaking and restore normal table layout. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 14 December 2012 14:18, Dana B wrote: > each other... like usual in left-justified text... > > thanks > > typos via my mob

Re: [css-d] bullets not behaving

2012-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
What do you want them to line up with? It's all relative… __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-d

Re: [css-d] html5 hover support on safari

2012-11-27 Thread Barney Carroll
tinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com ___

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-08 Thread Barney Carroll
he silent majority who don't give two hoots about specification-validity but live and die by the pragmatism of their junk ;), you're looking in the wrong place. You may find what you're looking for here, though: http://csslint.net/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.

[css-d] The value of zoom WAS: Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Barney Carroll
it and working with it can be quite rewarding. Better the devil you know, in any case — at the moment I'm wrestling with buggy Android WebKit box model issues relating to transform, and it's not pretty — neither is it documented. Here again, W3C validity is little comfort. -- Regards,

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Barney Carroll
ng a 'W3C CSS valid' sticker at the bottom. And when it comes to inheriting code that doesn't match my own style, my rule of thumb is to leave it be unless it causes problems and I feel confident I understand and can circumvent the underlying reasons behind it. -- Regards, Bar

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Barney Carroll
Nope! The position was relative anyway — a new rule matching a selector does not override all previous rules: it extends them (individual properties will be over-written). The W3C validator takes the sum of all things and statically analyses to see if there’s anything invalid in there at all. It’

Re: [css-d] transform translate percentages and Android

2012-11-01 Thread Barney Carroll
On 1 November 2012 01:08, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > If I understand correctly (no Android based device to test over here), > Android default browser treats the inner width of .tabs as the total of > your 3 ‘columns’ for the purpose of the translate3d transform ? Yes, that's right. Upon DOM

Re: [css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-21 Thread Barney Carroll
pro-active approach to the perceived problem not mentioned in the afore-linked specification. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-21 Thread Barney Carroll
re another great example of Opera bringing huge unasked-for gifts to the table. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-d

Re: [css-d] What's the official/technical name of...

2012-10-17 Thread Barney Carroll
> >__ > >css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css- > >discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > >List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- > ht

Re: [css-d] site review

2012-10-15 Thread Barney Carroll
rformance by computing the render of a huge box (http://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-px-hack-new-image-replacement/) — what do you reckon to the HTML5 boilerplate method Snook came up with? (http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/hiding-content-for-accessibility) Regards, Barn

Re: [css-d] JavaScript animations and CSS animations in web apps

2012-10-02 Thread Barney Carroll
Hi Gabriele, This question has been much on my mind – I've experimented with a lot of methods and to be perfectly honest I'm still experimenting project by project. Pertinently, an interesting article recently appeared on the Opera development blog about just this subject [1]. Generally what I en

Re: [css-d] Firefox & Numerical Class Names

2012-10-01 Thread Barney Carroll
le to express the numeric character with unicode escaping (rather than simply preceding with an escape character), but otherwise it is likely no! Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com _

Re: [css-d] Opposing floats not lining up

2012-09-24 Thread Barney Carroll
://jsfiddle.net/barney/BHWYP/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread Barney Carroll
Felix, this is the reason I subscribe to the list. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer – there's loads here I didn't know. It's amazing how much bizarre standard practice comes from a perceived need for retroactive continuity with a minority of sites that make terrible mistakes. Break the futur

Re: [css-d] android & blackberry emulators

2012-07-03 Thread Barney Carroll
http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/ For Webkit-based Blackberrys, at least, Ripple is officially supported by RIM, who manufacture Blackberries. Which is a good start. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] display:block in Outlook 2007 & 2010

2012-05-21 Thread Barney Carroll
Hey W, Stylesheets are often unreliable in email clients. For many things, you have to bring the styles inline – There's a handy guide to various cross-client compatibility over here: http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 1

Re: [css-d] question about vendor specific prefix

2012-05-08 Thread Barney Carroll
ed in using prefixed properties but want to be abreast of latest implementations, I highly recommend http://css3please.com. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@li

Re: [css-d] question about vendor specific prefix

2012-05-08 Thread Barney Carroll
same name, whereas -webkit-border-radius implies partial or buggy support and/or an implementation based on an unfinished specification – so you would want the former to take precedence if available. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] Centering Variable Width Page Items

2012-05-05 Thread Barney Carroll
So effectively, you wish to make #fixed variable? ;) The trick to this is to set a max-width in combination with margin-left and -right set to auto. See barneycarroll.com for a working example: the content is never wider than the viewport, but remains centred on wider screens. Regards, Barney

Re: [css-d] The universal selector

2012-05-02 Thread Barney Carroll
> Is this normal behaviour? Yes. The fact that displays block and displays inline by default is down to browser stylesheet defaults. and its contents display none by default. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.

Re: [css-d] Multiple, evenly split, fluid columns inside fixed-width parent container?

2012-04-26 Thread Barney Carroll
Hi Philip, 1) The odd word grouping is down to whitespace rules on links. I've always found it disconcerting reading when links run across a line break, but perhaps I need to take care to keep them short if I'm going to force continuity. 2) The experience is a far longer section than the proficie

Re: [css-d] Multiple, evenly split, fluid columns inside fixed-width parent container?

2012-04-25 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya Micky, I always forget that a reply on this list won't reply to the list. Sorry. As for margins with columns, I think the best idea is to create children wrappers within the columns and give them margins — the parent wrapper has the proportional width relative to the parent, while the child h

Re: [css-d] what does "!important" mean?

2012-04-19 Thread Barney Carroll
> > Every now and then, when I'm reading other peoples'/companies' css code, > i see this "!important" thing added to the end of some of the lines in css. > > > > What does it do/change? > Hiya David, The !important flag, when appended to a CSS property, makes the declaration take precedence over

Re: [css-d] Finding fallback fonts (for Calibri)

2012-03-05 Thread Barney Carroll
legal repercussions: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 5 March 2012 11:01, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Hi Barney, > > Thanks for your comments. Did you intend to send it personally

Re: [css-d] Inappropriate uses of CSS3

2012-02-19 Thread Barney Carroll
which distracts and hinders the user. But these are ultimately kill-joy arguments rooted in vague unsubstantiated opinions on minor usability concerns. [1] http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/css-transitions-media-queries/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.c

Re: [css-d] Adblocker and css classes/ids

2012-02-19 Thread Barney Carroll
t just use arbitrary classnames? .guerrilla sounds pretty cool to me. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 19 February 2012 08:45, Graham Hays wrote: > Hi all > > Can anyone advise if there is a master list somewhere of id and class nam

Re: [css-d] html5shiv problem

2012-02-18 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya Ellen, Google search for html5shiv print revealed this: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv/blob/master/src/html5shiv-printshiv.js Don't have a printer at hand to test but by all accounts it seems vetted by the experts… Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 On 18 Feb 2012,

[css-d] Hide from keyboard navigation

2012-01-19 Thread Barney Carroll
he style snippet "article{visibility:hidden} article.active{visibility:visible}" be effective enough to restrict keyboard access as I've described? Are there any other accessiblity caveats with this method that anyone can think of? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmai

Re: [css-d] CSS Via Conditional Comments for Safari?

2011-12-24 Thread Barney Carroll
ke sure their experience of a site has bitmap parity across platforms, decide that the results on both platforms are independently acceptable, and it is not a web developer's job to fix fonts or operating systems. I would describe this as a question of professional philosophy, but then

Re: [css-d] Puzzling rendering difference

2011-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
That's odd. Confirming Chrome bugs is a bit of a pain because of the incredibly regular silent updates. Getting the particular versions necessary to isolate what the bug affects would be difficult — but on the plus side you can usually wait a week and have it resolve itself ;) __

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
> Secondly, if you guys, who wish to drop IE6, wish to work with APAC > customers, that might be a tad problematic to have both wishes granted at > the same time. Last week I was able to see what browsers several large > Asian companies tend to use. IE6 - IE8. 20% IE6, 20% IE7, 30% IE8, rest - > o

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-17 Thread Barney Carroll
The misleading implication with this news from MS is that users who have been inexplicably stuck on IE6 will all be moved forward by this. The sad fact is a lot of IE6 is intentional lock in. Here in the UK almost all government employees have it as their only browser — and that's a matter of go

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-16 Thread Barney Carroll
> Sounds from your comments that some/many companies feel that IE6 usage is so > insignificant as to make accommodating it to be more costly than any benefit > gotten from the accommodation. > > Is that the feeling? I work for a digital marketing agency that churns out a fairly large number of

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-16 Thread Barney Carroll
> Does it mean that, after MS takes these steps, we can basically forget about > hacking and kudging our sites to work with IE 6? No. Microsoft have yet to explain exactly how these updates will be introduced (particularly for XP users). The idea is that Internet Explorer updates, including whol

Re: [css-d] iframe troubles

2011-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
wrapper div positioned as you desire and give the iframe position:absolute, top & left of 0 and height & width of 100%. Note the wrapper must be positioned fixed, absolute or relative for this to work. Set up a prototype on jsfiddle.net with your current work in progress if you need more help

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Barney Carroll
arcotte's writings on the matter on alistapart.com. Responsive Web Design and the earlier Fluid Grids articles show a huge experience and massive insight on these matters. Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 __ css-di

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Barney Carroll
gards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List pol

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Barney Carroll
ted in any of these aspects, use pixels: they're precise, unambiguous, and suffer none of the headaches of the cascade. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-

Re: [css-d] the realities of moving and resizing images

2011-11-07 Thread Barney Carroll
recently relaunched http://bostonglobe.com/ Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 On 7 Nov 2011, at 15:34, e...@copywritecolombia.com wrote: > Basically don't resize images it is a waste of bandwidth just download the > image once in the right size for your design and be done

Re: [css-d] the realities of moving and resizing images

2011-11-07 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya John, My tentative answer to that question would be 'yes' ;) Can you be a bit more specific about your particular intentions and concerns? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com 07594 506 381 __ c

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