Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: > It seems that the letter spacing results I am getting on Safari 5.0.3 on the > Mac are different from what I'm seeing on FF 3.6.14 I see the same in my work, using the latest Firefox beta 4 on my Mac. My trial & errors suggest that increasin

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:16 AM, G.Sørtun wrote: > no-one has ever managed to control font-size or letter-spacing or anything > related to text reliable at pixel-level with HTML and CSS Thanks, Georg Clear. But just a trifle disappointing. :) My naiveté thought CSS could do anything! But I also re

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:27 AM, David Laakso wrote: > On 3/3/11 11:24 AM, Charles Miller wrote: >> >> http://abcaudiology.com (the home page only) specifies something like >> 0.65ems of letter-spacing. I might like a little less space, but since older >> viewers will

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 4, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > In general, setting any kind of letter-spacing on body text is a poor idea - > and font designers do know their job, in general (yes, I know, there are > crappy fonts out there). That may be sound advice. And, thanks to you and others,

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:24 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Charles Miller wrote: > >> But the letterfit (there's that word again) of body text in the WordPress >> site I inherited and am reworking, is with no letter-spacing simply too >> tigh

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > But that shews no evidence at all of overtight letter fit > (in my browser, at my preferred settings, at least). Can > you send a screenshot of how it appears at your end, so > we can see where you are getting the feel that it

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 4, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > Here is how I see it, by the way : > > > https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5580238912279306258 > > ** P. My fervent hope to get out of this house has been briefly thwart

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

On Mar 4, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > So the problem would have been had you thought it was "windy." > > I did : I was just too shocked to comment, given that you had > suggested it was overkerned. Remember, please, Goudy's aphorism. Might that be: First do n

Re: [css-d] Experiment: CSS post it note

On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator wrote: > *Can't even begin to count the number of sites that had some snippet of > useful text just begging to be copied into my research notes only to > discover the text is a graphic. Guilty. Flat out guilty. Not

Re: [css-d] Reflection effect

On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:16 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Fwiw, some captures... > > ~d Am I right that none of them look like a true reflection would look? That the bottom image is in no cases a vertical flip of the top image? It "challenges"

Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:46 AM, Gabriele Romanato wrote: > As always, if you notice anything strange In my Mac's Safari (latest version) and Firefox (latest version), I noticed a small detail I've noticed on sites I'm working on. The letter-spacing for text is IMHO a bit too tight. Reading on

Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

On Jun 4, 2011, at 9:42 AM, David Laakso wrote: > Personal Opinion: > > Play at being a web designer rather than being a type designer. Do not > letterspace text for desktop. Sometimes when used with discretion and > depending on the font letterspacing of a heading /may/ be appropriate. This

Re: [css-d] Popout box

On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Nazish wrote: > I'd like to create a popout box... Project 7 has a product called Tooltip Magic that quite impresses me. http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/tooltips/index.htm Chuck M __

Re: [css-d] Banners

On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:10 AM, John wrote: >> Can anyone recommend some good tutorials on how to make web banners using >> CSS? As a Sitepoint "customer" I just got an email with this: > As a SitePoint customer, you're invited to join tens of thousands > of students learning PHP, JavaScript, jQ

Re: [css-d] 'letter-spacing' - pixels only?

On Oct 27, 2011, at 8:34 PM, ChrisIzatt wrote: > So you don't agree that letter-spacing should be able to be adjusted on text > that isn't large? Why? When I tried it a year ago, using small amounts on text-size type, it would have no affect as I increased the amount. And then one additional i

Re: [css-d] Recommended css font settings

On Feb 23, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: > Check out this article: > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/20/typographic-design-survey-best-practices-from-the-best-blogs/, > it has a lot of useful info. There are also some good articles on the IA > website on typography. I

Re: [css-d] "Responsive Design" resources

Sorry to Tom for first sending this to him, not the list. On May 20, 2013, at 10:52 AM, "Tom Livingston" wrote: > I recommend "Mobile First" and "Responsive Web Design" from abookapart.com I'd recommend a book with the same title but with Jump Start at the beginning: Jump Start Res

Re: [css-d] "Responsive Design" resources

On Jun 1, 2013, at 4:58 AM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > Don't know if you've found a solution, but I cam across this and thought I'd > share. > Just in case you or anyone else may find it useful for responsive web design. > Haven't worked with it myself, but looks like it is worth a try, and it's

Re: [css-d] Good HTML / CSS3 books

On Oct 28, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Jon Reece wrote: > HTML5 > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/HTML5 > > CSS (all versions) > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS This impresses me. I saved the pages for offline viewing on my tablet, but suspect that most of the

Re: [css-d] Good HTML / CSS3 books

Quick notes: The mention of this list’s moderator prompted my eternally-hibernating memory to suggest that the Eric Meyer I mentioned may be The Moderator hereabouts. I gave mixed comments on his Pocket Reference, from my perhaps idiosyncratic perspective, without any thot that I might be push

Re: [css-d] Visual styling vs. source order

Bet I can make some dearly-departed conscientious types roll over in their graves by mentioning: 1. Begin with an H1 which states the subject matter as directly and plainly as possible -- and which is white on white or placed off the page with negative X margin. Whatever works, if

[css-d] Struggling with an OL

Good morning - My business client donates a website for the Flag Day Parade here in Appleton, WI, USA. Each year the site lists all the participants. I’ve normally done that by converting a docx file to an html table. But with my limited import experience and my limited code skills, that alway

[css-d] My nomination for hero of the moment...

I needed a link in the tfoot part of a table to be white, while links in the body were black. So I defined a rule for tfoot a:link. That did it in Dreamweaver. But Safari showed the link in default blue. Blue on red is a mess. Intermediate practitioner that I am, I spent two hours trying to

[css-d] Amazing CSS

On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Shawn Lawler wrote: > I think this what you're looking for mate: > http://www.scottjehl.com/v7/index.php/process/html_text_drop_shadows The Matas text comes off to my eye with much more finesse. Don't think it's just white vs dark blue. The example on the Jehl sit

[css-d] hello this is my first post i just can get this to look right in IE-any

(this was initially sent to the individual, not the list. sorry.) Begin forwarded message: > From: Charles Miller > Date: October 31, 2009 9:23:46 AM CDT > To: David Dorward > Subject: Re: [css-d] hello this is my first post i just can get this > to look right in IE-any > &

Re: [css-d] Books for webdesign

On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy wrote: > Could somebody suggest me resources (sites,books as well) for > web design?? If you use Dreamweaver, I personally can warmly recommend "Dreamweaver CS4, The Missing Manual" by David Sawyer McFarland. It doesn't just pr

Re: [css-d] Die focus, die!

I have two questions about protocol, or whatever it might be called. 1. Is it considered "proper" to put the reply after the quote? I personally much prefer the reply first. If I'm reading a thread, I have the quote already in mind, and like it when I don't have to manually scroll down to see

[css-d] Fwd: Send a new message to the list (was: Die focus, die!)

That's the other thing I need to wrap my brain around. Reply going to OP. Begin forwarded message: > On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Brian Funk wrote: > >> So, what happens when you click on the list's email address which is the >> first item in every list signature at the bottom of each email? >

Re: [css-d] how to make a password-protected page?

On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:01 PM, John wrote: > I would like to create a page or section of my website which requires > a password for the user to gain access to. For 8 years a client and I have been using a simple chunk of code for password access to half of his website. It's worked fine, with ze

[css-d] Re the non-secure login code...

Three good people have now requested and received copies of the code we're using for a simple login page. I have no problem sharing it, but if, bottom line, I am being helpful or if I'm "luring" folks into flawed practice. If one of the sage veterans on this list would care to review what we're

Re: [css-d] Re the non-secure login code...

On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Reese wrote: > I'd be happy to take a look, I'm always on the lookout for good > login scripts and I'd be happy to provide any feedback I can. Here's what I've been sending out. > After making the offer, it occurred that it's been so long since I started > usin

Re: [css-d] Hello to the Group

On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:01 AM, David and Vince wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >>I would just like to say that I am new here... > > Welcome to the list! I offer an outlier's welcome. I post here seldom and softly - since the list has requirements that aren't congenial for me. I'll try to list the

Re: [css-d] Graphic background issue

On Jan 24, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: > http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/ Thanks a useful link to an interesting article. It appears that Fireworks PNG-8s made with alpha transparency eliminate the need for code hacks, work as intended for variable t