Re: [css-d] General question

2010-08-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
__ > css-discuss [cs...@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 > Supported by ev

Re: [css-d] Changes how (some) browsers handle the a:visited pseudo-class

2010-04-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
the same. I don't see losing the ability to shrink visited links to a microscopic font or replace their backgrounds with biohazard warnings to be any big loss. Certainly not a big enough loss to warrant knowingly choosing a default behavior which is known to put users

Re: [css-d] Password Protection

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
thorization levels (even just "guest" vs. "logged in"), or simply having an application in the first place does require server-side programming, though, like you said. Good point on the SSL also. Sending passwords across the net in plaintext isn't exactly the hei

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
ixels and find the idea of trying to size things on-screen based on inches or any other physical measurement to be silly, at best. For someone coming from a background in print design, I can certainly understand why there would be a tendency to think in te

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
unit, so em-sizing should work regardless of whether the DPI setting is accurate or not. -- Dave Sherohman __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- htt

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
screen are the same size regardless - remember that their size is purely a factor of the physical screen size and the active display resolution, not of the DPI setting - so the (supposedly) 1" line becomes 24 pixels longer when you change from 96DPI to 120DPI. (And note that 24 is 25% of 9

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
Add some headers and metadata, and 399.3k sounds about right as a final uncompressed file size. "Save for Web and Devices" applied jpeg compression to the image, producing a file size smaller than the actual uncompressed image size, b

Re: [css-d] Percentage width for input type=file

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
aps making the type=text inputs 100% width and letting them be 725px wide is a bad idea in the first place, but that's a design discussion and I asked a technical question, not a design question.) -- Dave Sherohman __ css-

[css-d] Percentage width for input type=file

2009-06-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
pt dependency - if the user has javascript disabled and selects a file, it will look like nothing happened, which is not my idea of graceful degradation. Are there any other options for creating the equivalent of ""? -- Dave Sherohman

Re: [css-d] What's your preference -- fluid, elastic, or fixed?

2009-06-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
browser window to constrain the content to a more usable width. -- Dave Sherohman __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Lis

Re: [css-d] What's your preference -- fluid, elastic, or fixed?

2009-06-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
som stylesheets to override your CSS, use a screen reader, etc. - so any "control over the ultimate appearance" that a fixed width may provide is little more than an illusion anyhow. -- Dave Sherohman __ css-discuss [cs...

Re: [css-d] Flowing block elements around floated elements

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
ow:hidden; } > would probably 'fix' the issue. Indeed it did. Thanks! -- Dave Sherohman __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-d

Re: [css-d] Flowing block elements around floated elements

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
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Re: [css-d] Flowing block elements around floated elements

2009-04-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
and only if any portion of it is beside the image and a right margin of 10px if it is not beside the image. e.g. (b = blockquote, t = non-blockquote text, i = image): tt iii iii ttt tt b

[css-d] Flowing block elements around floated elements

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
on of text adjacent to the image results in the extending right for the full width of the container, going behind the image. What can be done to get the to size itself such that it does not overlap the image? -- Dave Sherohman _

Re: [css-d] Pixel-perfect vertical alignment of horizontal

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:50:38PM +0200, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > May be a bit difficult to comprehend, but 'background-position : 0 50%;' > will "automagically" place the image's vertical center exactly at the > link's vertical center, and that will show. Interesting... I was sure that it set th

Re: [css-d] Pixel-perfect vertical alignment of horizontal

2008-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:33:11PM +0200, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > http://kuno.sherohman.org/~esper/nomadnetinc.com/ > > > The navigation menu is, however, proving problematic. > > > Is it possible to get that to line up properly in all

[css-d] Pixel-perfect vertical alignment of horizontal

2008-09-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
I am in the process of converting http://kuno.sherohman.org/~esper/nomadnetinc.com/ from its original nested-table-hell formatting so something css-based and a bit cleaner. The navigation menu is, however, proving problematic. I have successfully managed to get the background to highlight with an

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:53:11AM +0900, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Step 1: wrap all the content of the page in a div > Step 2: style that div as follows > div {float:left;} > > don't specify a width on that div. OK, that worked. Thanks! Now for the bonus question... *Why* did that work?

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:41:15PM -0400, Larry Tait wrote: > I would sugguest getting rid of tables and using proper css styling, Tables are proper when used to display tabular data, such as game schedules or team standings. When there are 20 columns (say, if you're showing the game times on 20

[css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
I am working on a (partial) CSS conversion of an existing site and have run into an issue with pages where the content is wider than the window in which it is viewed. The page is set up with a banner graphic, which is defined as a div background (so it will cut itself off based on page width), and

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:03:57PM -0400, David Laakso wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > The test page I've been using to work this out is at > > http://kuno.sherohman.org/~esper/linktree/menutest.html > > > > What do I need to do to get this to render properly in

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Ingo Chao wrote: > >> The generic approach to fix that problem is to set position:relative on > >> li:hover only. By doing this, the subsequent will not be placed > >> above the hovered in question, because only this li is positioined > >> and gets a h

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
(Sorry about the double copy, Ingo. I accidentally replied to sender the first time instead of to list.) On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:07:57PM +0200, Ingo Chao wrote: > All subsequent will be placed above the submenu, since these > are coming later in the source. Indeed. > The generic approach

[css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm currently in the midst of reinventing the CSS cascading popup menu (with just a hint of javascript to do the show/hide, thanks to IE6's lack of li:hover) and have got it pretty well worked out in Firefox and Safari, but IE6 is killing me with its insistence on hiding bits of the popup behind th

Re: [css-d] 2 more 2 columnish questions

2008-02-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 08:52:27AM -0500, David Laakso wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >Both questions relate to my site at http://seethefnews.com/ and can be > >seen on the page http://seethefnews.com/index.cgi?action=topwords > > > >1) Is there a way to get column si

[css-d] 2 more 2 columnish questions

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
Both questions relate to my site at http://seethefnews.com/ and can be seen on the page http://seethefnews.com/index.cgi?action=topwords 1) Is there a way to get column sizing in pixels and percents to play nice together? My base layout is set up with two columns in divs .main and .nav, defined