Re: [css-d] OT: What to do now Webdesign-l is gone

2017-08-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 17 Aug 2017, at 17:50, Felix Miata wrote: Maybe list-mom Eric would accept an expansion of this list's role, given the low traffic level it's had for quite some time? This is an interesting question. css-d has been moderately more active than WD-L, but the traffic level is

Re: [css-d] td:nth-child(2) negation?

2017-08-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
27;td' that's a child of another 'td' and I don't think that's a thing. Could you provide some markup samples to illustrate cases where you do and don't want selection to occur? -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __

Re: [css-d] CSS Grid Question

2017-07-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
r grid.. so, yes, you can have grids in your grid to grid a grid over a grid. I swear that made sense when I typed it. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-di

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS variables (no preprocessors)

2017-05-18 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 18 May 2017, at 19:26, Reese wrote: Wow, the formatting on that got clobbered. Will probably get clobbered on this email also. How long has that been happening? Hard to say. What formatting got clobbered? You initial post didn't look mangled to me. -- Eric A. Meyer -

Re: [css-d] vw and vh units -- how does one learn of developments in the CSS spec. such as these ?

2017-04-05 Thread Eric A. Meyer
w way more than me: <http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2012/05/15/defining-ch/> -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/F

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, for anyone viewing source. My memory of things from that far back is regrettably splintered. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d L

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 17 Mar 2017, at 21:33, Crest Christopher wrote: Eric, the curtain was all CSS ? Mine was, yes. The original, the one I was imitating, used PNGs. If so how did you create the taper effect on the curtains ? Not sure exactly what you mean by a "taper effect", but here&

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 17 Mar 2017, at 15:04, John Beales wrote: @Eric: That's exactly it. I was also able to turn up the similar part of your Colors, Backgrounds, & Gradients book from 2015, (maybe it's a pre-release section of your upcoming book?). As a matter of fact, it is! Do you remembe

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ookmarks will help. You might be thinking of http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/circadients.html (almost five years old now!). __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
memory and/or > bookmarks will help. You might be thinking of http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/circadients.html (almost five years old now!). __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/lis

Re: [css-d] align 4 divs horizontally

2016-03-30 Thread Eric A. Meyer
t flexbox would handle extremely well. Something as simple as this might work: div.col-xs-10 {display: flex; align-items: center;} It's possible you might have to unset a lot of Bootstrap CSS to prevent interference, but hopefully not. -- Eric A. Meyer -

Re: [css-d] Flexbox Fallback to Justify Nav Items with Equal Spacing

2015-12-31 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ny guidance. The centered fallback is OK, but I'd really prefer an equally spaced, fully justified look. ___ RICK GORDON [http://www.theshelterblog.com](http://www.theshelterblog.co

[css-d] [ADMIN] Hello, my friends, hello

2015-12-23 Thread Eric A. Meyer
If anyone has strong feelings that it should be one of the other two options, or a fourth option I didn't list, feel free to let me know off-list. I may not be able to respond to every message, but I will read them all. I expect to make a final decision on or before January 10, 2016. Wh

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Automatic Reply: Re: css-d Digest, Vol 147, Issue 2

2015-02-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
those inboxes. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.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 policies -- http://

Re: [css-d] Rotating along Z

2014-11-28 Thread Eric
Check this one out, it helped me understand how it works... http://thewebrocks.com/demos/3D-css-tester/ > On November 28, 2014 at 1:40 AM Crest Christopher > wrote: > > > I need some help, why this doesn't > rotate along the Z, I know it's flat but instead it's ro

Re: [css-d] Numbered lists with unique numbers per line

2014-11-28 Thread Eric
Have you tried CSS counters...might just work for you. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Counters http://caniuse.com/#search=counter > On November 28, 2014 at 11:06 AM Øyvind Teig wrote: > > > Hi! > > I'd like this list http://www.teigfam.net/oyvind/home/technology/ to lo

Re: [css-d] Responsive Images

2014-11-06 Thread Eric
That's right David. If you have: img {max-width: 100%; The image will not exceed the width of its parent. Eric > On November 6, 2014 at 11:42 AM David Hucklesby wrote: > > > On 11/5/14, 9:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Crest Christopher composed on 2014-11-05 23:45 (U

Re: [css-d] Why is child wider than parent?

2014-11-06 Thread Eric
"Darn box model!" Well, the box model isn't set in stone you know. > On November 6, 2014 at 5:43 PM Angela French wrote: > > > Darn box model! > > Thanks. > > -Original Message- > From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org > [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Georg

Re: [css-d] Styling a menu

2014-10-16 Thread Eric
Just my US$0.02 worth Eric > On October 15, 2014 at 1:04 PM Peredur wrote: > > > I imagine that this will turn out to be a very simple question, but > never one to avoid displaying my own ignorance, here goes... > > I'm trying to create a layout for a website that is

Re: [css-d] Flex box help

2014-10-09 Thread Eric
lot more if you need them. Just keep practicing, it'll click with you soon. Eric > On October 9, 2014 at 1:10 PM Darren Brierton > wrote: > > > Thanks for replying Chris. My answers are below: > > On 9 Oct 2014, at 18:59, Chris Rockwell wrote: > > > >> (D

[css-d] ADMIN: erroneous subscription

2014-10-08 Thread Eric A. Meyer
se contact me for removal from the list if the "unsubscribe" link (see below) does not work for you. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/m

Re: [css-d] custom fonts not working in Chrome

2014-10-07 Thread Eric
Arno, You need to load more than just .TTF files. Take a look at this page from CSS Tricks it's more up to date. Eric http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/using-font-face/ > On October 7, 2014 at 7:28 AM "Stuff @ arnoenzerink.com" > wrote: > > > Hi list, >

Re: [css-d] rem units and %

2014-09-16 Thread Eric
Did you read on this list that the REM unit is only for type? - It's a relative unit like any other relative unit. I use it for everything except element widths (they get %s) and line-height that should be unitless. There are some strange "rules of thumb" floating around out thereTake a look a

Re: [css-d] SVG background-image with fallback

2014-08-10 Thread Eric
Hope they've seen the MS press release about EOLing IE 8 in about 18 months ;-) Eric http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-drop-support-for-older-versions-of-internet-explorer-732437/?s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f > On August 7, 2014 at 7:00 PM Tom Livingston wrote: &

Re: [css-d] SVG background-image with fallback

2014-08-07 Thread Eric
drop int he bucket of users. Eric > On August 5, 2014 at 9:00 AM Tom Livingston wrote: > > > List, > > I was having a discussion in the comments of an article about using > svg as a background-image in CSS, and using a png as fallback. I was > writing it like this: > &g

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Eric
Yep this is what I have done for a long time. The support for the REM unit is now pretty much universal in modern UAs, except for bugs (one of which I found and reported on pre-IE11). And, in that case the REM unit was only being ignored for font-size. If you have to support ancient UAs than use

Re: [css-d] W3C errors. in application....

2014-07-09 Thread Eric
Technically the error was thrown correctly: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/sections.html#the-section-element http://html5doctor.com/the-section-element/ Eric > On July 9, 2014 at 8:32 AM Nancy Johnson wrote: > > > I do application development and the W3C throws an

Re: [css-d] font-variant:small-caps;

2014-06-12 Thread Eric
Is that first letter more 'bold' or is it actually a bit larger? Is that first letter a cap in the HTML? If so this is normal...Since there is no Arial SC the UA is transforming the lowercase letters to uppercase and then shrinking them a bit. HTH > On June 12, 2014 at 5:42 PM Richard Wendrock F

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: The notorious email

2014-05-03 Thread Eric A. Meyer
to look at any evidence people can glean regarding the source of the messages, because I'd like to stop them too. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.

Re: [css-d] IE 10 issue

2014-04-28 Thread Eric
Sorry something got cropped It should have read - While my message may be a bit off-topic it was a sincere effort to keep everyone here safe. And, by the way I'm a big fan of IE11. > On April 28, 2014 at 6:14 PM Eric wrote: > > > While my message mI am a big fan of IE11ay be a

Re: [css-d] IE 10 issue

2014-04-28 Thread Eric
While my message mI am a big fan of IE11ay be a bit off-topic it was a sincere effort to keep everyone here safe. And, by the way I'm a big fan of IE11. I would be happy to take a look at Russ' code but I won't be testing it for now. Eric > On April 28, 2014 at 3:26 PM MiB

Re: [css-d] IE 10 issue

2014-04-28 Thread Eric
ok&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow> Eric > On April 28, 2014 at 2:01 PM Russ Peters wrote: > > > > Have an issue with the fieldset not expanding to contain the radgrid. It is > working as expected in Chrome, but I need it to work in IE. Any suggestions?

Re: [css-d] Pre-processor discussion

2014-04-28 Thread Eric
Andrew, I'm not following what you mean by this - "Why can't there be a code for all browsers, to do something like transparency or rounded corners." Are you talking about something outside of CSS? Something else maybe? Eric > On April 28, 2014 at 3:52 AM "

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

2014-04-24 Thread Eric
be a thick layer of static on this list. Just my US$0.02 worth. Eric > On April 24, 2014 at 11:46 AM "Andrew C. Johnston" > wrote: > > > Hello All: > > I have been a bit busy and haven't been keeping up, how does the list feel > about discussions involving L

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Eric
Opps, forgot to add this: Yes, if you use REM the value will stay consistent with the value of font-size set on root element. If you use a percentage for the root element's font-size your other font-sizes will vary depending on the browser's default font size setting...Some have no problem with th

Re: [css-d] Font-Sizes - Golden Rule ?

2014-04-09 Thread Eric
Not not correct - The value of a REM is taken from the font-size of the root element...thus the HTML element, not the BODY element. > On April 9, 2014 at 12:05 PM Shari wrote: > > > If you use rem's it stays consistent from the body tag... correct? > > Shari > ___

Re: [css-d] Firefox and page inflation

2014-04-07 Thread Eric
Mickey, I've tested on Win8 and reported my findings. I'll test later on Win7, but I seriously doubt there will be a diff. Especially on my standard density 1920x1080 screen. Eric > On April 7, 2014 at 8:59 PM Micky Hulse wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Davi

Re: [css-d] Firefox and page inflation

2014-04-07 Thread Eric
higher density monitor which I don't have access to (unless I try it on my wife's iPad...when she's not playing WwF that is). However, keep in mind that high density displays are still a tiny fraction of what's being used in the wild. For a little while that is...until 4K takes o

Re: [css-d] Firefox and page inflation

2014-04-07 Thread Eric
in on FF). The diffs I did see between Nightly and Chrome are minor and appear to be due to the usual diffs in UA font rendering engines. Eric > On April 7, 2014 at 10:41 AM Tom Livingston wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Davies, Elizabeth > wrote: > > I've no

Re: [css-d] Firefox and page inflation

2014-04-04 Thread Eric
Could you please post a URL to an example? Thanks > On April 4, 2014 at 6:01 PM "Davies, Elizabeth" > wrote: > > > Looking for insight into (and potential correction to) the latest Firefox > browsers inflating the overall size/resolution of webpages. We use a mobile > first responsive upwards, an

Re: [css-d] Google font use

2014-03-27 Thread Eric
nts and the Critical Path" <http://ianfeather.co.uk/web-fonts-and-the-critical-path/> Hope this helps a git, Eric > On March 27, 2014 at 3:23 PM David Hucklesby wrote: > > > On 3/27/14, 9:34 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: > > I was doing this simple test with google fonts

Re: [css-d] Google font use

2014-03-27 Thread Eric
Yes, I realize that. I was just checking to see if a different CSS approach might be used. > On March 27, 2014 at 2:53 PM Philip Taylor wrote: > > > > > Eric wrote: > > > You're not using the strong tag for styling are you? > > I very much suspect that the

Re: [css-d] Google font use

2014-03-27 Thread Eric
Tom, You're not using the strong tag for styling are you? > On March 27, 2014 at 12:34 PM Tom Livingston wrote: > > > I was doing this simple test with google fonts (via @import method). > > body{ > font-family: $roboto; > } > > .bold{ > font-weight: 500; > } > > Hi there bolded text > I'm bold

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Chrome Extension to PSD

2014-03-12 Thread Eric A. Meyer
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Re: [css-d] child width exceeding parents' ?!

2014-03-10 Thread Eric
of all my stylesheets and off I go - * { -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; } A few years ago I read some place that the W3C box model came down to a decision by a single member. I don't know if that's true or not but I'd like to get some history on the topic. Er

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

2014-02-15 Thread Eric
I agree with Colin...I don't like them either. But, they do remain in HTML5 <http://html5doctor.com/i-b-em-strong-element/> Eric > On February 15, 2014 at 5:47 PM Ezequiel Garzón > wrote: > > > Greetings to all, > > I know this is highly subjective question, bu

Re: [css-d] Background image on body appears to be in viewport or HTML

2014-02-09 Thread Eric
Interesting Chris. I'v always styled the with margins, positioning, sometimes padding...etc and it always has an effect. Rachel, Tim will need to give his element a position of absolute, relative (and maybe fixed but I'm sure about that one) for z-index to kick in. Eric > On Feb

Re: [css-d] IE issue!

2014-01-22 Thread Eric
Ed, I'm surprised that IE11 would be the source of your problem, the last I read it's the most standards compliant UA in the wild. I've had less problems with it than Mozilla or Chrome UAs. Anyway, could provide a link to the page in question so it can be looked at? Eric Miner

Re: [css-d] Interesting read

2014-01-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
;https://twitter.com/vlh/status/423088470781726722>. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: [OT] CSS/HTML Work Needed

2014-01-04 Thread Eric A. Meyer
our patience with my sometimes tardy admin posts. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incuti

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

2013-10-28 Thread Eric
sr=1-1> The HTML Pocket Guide <http://www.amazon.com/The-HTML-Pocket-Guide-Peachpit/dp/0321699742> Around the first of they year Eric Meyer's publisher was offering three huge chapters from his upcoming edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide for free. They're offering them f

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Start at the bottom!

2013-10-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
mming are what they are, I will try to be better about reminding people offline to trim wasteful overage, and Holy Wars are still always off-topic. If necessary, I will go add this to the official list of Holy Wars on the wiki, but I hope it won't be necessary. -- Eric A. Meyer -  Co-fo

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

2013-10-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, and we've always striven to avoid such "Holy Wars" on this list because they're inevitably more noise than signal. All I ask is that, whatever your reply style, you trim the quoted material to include only that which is relevant and absolutely necessary to yo

Re: [css-d] Two classes, two conflicting rules, which wins ?

2013-10-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
l that, two rules are still in conflict, THEN the order they're written in matters. There's a little bit more to the story, once you take into account inheritance and the lack of a notion of element proximity in the document tre

Re: [css-d] Two classes, two conflicting rules, which wins ?

2013-10-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ght, OR specificity, then the order they're listed in the CSS is irrelevant.) -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FA

Re: [css-d] Font-size affecting line-height?

2013-10-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
pixel of height and I can't track down how or why. Believe it or not, this is expected behavior. It arises from the interaction of 'vertical-align' and 'line-height'. I created some images to illustrate what's happening: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/discuss/ex

Re: [css-d] Where do you cut-off your browser support?

2013-09-23 Thread Eric
odern UAs available right now. Webkit requires far too many prefixes and Moz is playing catchup is some areas and is not addressing non-support in others. Chrome also fell behind but has recently begun to catch up too. All of this is just 'IMHO' stuff. Eric __

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Gggfcnjsheyl beggigpk. Nnkkknkkkn.

2013-09-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
to attempt some level of visual consistency, I decided to refrain. This time. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

Re: [css-d] Site check please IE9/10

2013-09-04 Thread Eric
Albert, I'm not seeing your problem. Have your fixed it? > On September 3, 2013 at 8:20 AM Albert van der Veen > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'm working on a new site and just found out it looks (and works, as you > can't even click any link) awful in IE8/9 and good in IE10. Can anyone > see whethe

Re: [css-d] Site check please IE9/10

2013-09-04 Thread Eric
David, I really don't see how the three HTML errors would case his problem. And, you might want to check the CSS before running a validation. He's using CSS3 that validation does not appear to have been run under CSS3 but rather CSS2.1 making the error irrelevant. And, even if they were the only t

Re: [css-d] IE10 Compatibility mode

2013-09-04 Thread Eric
I do have a here. With IE7 having a 0.6% share right nowwhy bother with it at all? Many of the big name pros in the Web Design/Dev industry no long check for UA versions. Most don't even support the ancient UAs at all. Just wondering. > On September 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM Tom Livingston wrote:

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

2013-08-30 Thread Eric
MarieAnge, When I ran your CSS on IE 10 and 11 I applied to markup that was very large and in both cases the fixed element stayed where I told it to while the other elements scrolled. I agree could you point us to a URL example? Eric > On August 30, 2013 at 5:50 AM marie-ange.demeulem

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

2013-08-29 Thread Eric
Hello Again, It works in IE10 also. Eric > On August 29, 2013 at 10:43 AM marie-ange.demeulemees...@bnpparibasfortis.com > wrote: > > > > Hi, > How can I use position fixed in IE 8+ without changing the doctype: html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

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

2013-08-29 Thread Eric
Hi Marie-Ange; Your CSS works fine in IE11, I don't currently have access to an earlier version, but I'll try it on another box soon. > On August 29, 2013 at 10:43 AM marie-ange.demeulemees...@bnpparibasfortis.com > wrote: > > > > Hi, > How can I use position fixed in IE 8+ without changing the

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

2013-08-27 Thread Eric
d loads of note by senior engineers stating why they should support (one saying that it's embarrassing for FF to be the only UA not to support) it's still sitting there unassigned over 15yrs later. That's just how engineering teams work. I would suggest that you don't use percentage

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

2013-08-26 Thread Eric
I forgot to mention thisthe -moz- prefixes for animation are no longer necessary, haven't been for a couple of versions. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/F

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

2013-08-26 Thread Eric
They must have been playing around in that module today. Eric > On August 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM Chris Rockwell wrote: > > > This is a webkit thing, check it in Firefox and it should work. I'll need > to do more research to find out why. > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at

Re: [css-d] Implementing Responsive Design

2013-08-22 Thread Eric
ok published? I thought most mobile UAs supported MQ's by nowI could be wrong. As for me I work from the desktop down, it just makes more sense for me. Eric > On August 22, 2013 at 9:10 PM "Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh" > wrote: > > > Been reading Implementing Resp

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: automated response

2013-08-13 Thread Eric A. Meyer
Folks, please let John's mistake serve as a reminder that when you set an email autoresponder, you should exempt any mailing lists to which you belong, lest you run afoul of a list's community policies and suffer the consequences. The More You Know™! -- Eric A. Meyer - http://me

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Just testing

2013-08-12 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 12 Aug 2013, at 10:52, Eric A. Meyer wrote: Normally I frown heavily on people posting test messages to the list, but given that I've had reports of bounces, seen some odd behaviors in related services, and no traffic in a couple of weeks, I felt I should test the list. If this

[css-d] ADMIN: Just testing

2013-08-12 Thread Eric A. Meyer
lease ignore it entirely, and accept my apologies for the unfortunate noise. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] what should go in html{ } ?

2013-06-28 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 20:33 +0300 6/28/13, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2013-06-28 19:34, Eric A. Meyer wrote: In CSS terms, the user agent applies a style of 'a:link {color: blue;}'. (Where 'blue' really means $USER_PREFERENCE but CSS doesn't have variables. Yet. We'll stick w

Re: [css-d] what should go in html{ } ?

2013-06-28 Thread Eric A. Meyer
user agent styles even when the author style has a lower specificity. (Assuming they are both of normal weight, anyway. If not, things get a touch ambiguous under CSS2 and a touch funky under the latest draft of the relevant CSS3 module.) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), L

Re: [css-d] what should go in html{ } ?

2013-06-27 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, the reader, or the user agent (browser). Inherited values have no specificity-- not zero, none at all. Assigned values always have some level of specificity. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously.&quo

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Zach Byrd

2013-06-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ring the hammer down. Meantime, if anyone works out a way to send airhorn blasts to any user via TCP/IP, let me know. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martin

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: from michael ray enjoy!

2013-06-10 Thread Eric A. Meyer
st members with Yahoo addresses... but tomorrow is another day. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff

Re: [css-d] linear-gradient

2013-06-06 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ully makes it a little more clear: <http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2012/04/26/lineargradient-keywords/>. (Note that it's from April 2012, so some of the "this is how browsers behave right now" bits may no longer be accurate.) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eri

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Join me on Fancy

2013-05-26 Thread Eric A. Meyer
rself forcibly unsubscribed from said mailing lists. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) _

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: ★ Css D, Mark left a message for you

2013-05-26 Thread Eric A. Meyer
lso also that Badoo, whatever that is, should be denounced and shunned by all right-thinking citizens of the world. Carry on, everyone, and sorry for the noise. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken ser

Re: [css-d] font-sizing bug in generated content in IE 10 ?

2013-05-08 Thread Eric
g the full stack. Interestingly, IE will use the REM unit to size elements (as I do regularly). I battled with their bug reporting system for months, it kept closing the bug with 'as designed' and I had to keep reactivating it. Finally I contacted out Fearless and Famous Leader, Mr. CSS Wiza

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: (no subject)

2013-05-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ship rolls) and move on with life. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css

Re: [css-d] Drop down menu pushing content down

2013-03-19 Thread Eric
Mike, I took a look at your site in FF 19.0.2 and Chrome 25.0.1364.172 m both on Win7 and they look identical to me. Could be more specific about where the problem is? Thanks, Eric Miner __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: link

2013-03-18 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ount to be held for approval. No, I'm not going to do that. But I've been tempted. Anyway, sorry once more for the noise. Carry on. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martin

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Stephen Davis

2013-03-03 Thread Eric A. Meyer
her way, I hope I can find a way to deal with it soon. As usual, I'm open to any suggestions-- feel free to send them to me offlist, especially if you have expertise with Mailman. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and ele

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Ram

2013-02-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
...and another spammer is booted from the list. Sorry for the noise. I may need to look into advanced Mailman filtering. Anyone have a pointer to a good primer? -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seri

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Hey!

2013-02-05 Thread Eric A. Meyer
mpromised. Sorry for the noise, folks. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css-d

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS linear gradient in Android tablet not extending to bottom of page

2013-01-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ded of my error and (with luck) learn from it. -- Eric A. Meyer (e...@meyerweb.com) http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS linear gradient in Android tablet not extending to bottom of page

2013-01-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 10:36 -0500 1/29/13, Kim Fernandez wrote: EricYou obviously are a rude individual with no respect. Perhaps so, but I'm also the person in charge of the list and enforcing its rules on those who rudely disrespect them. If you wish to act in accordance with the list'

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS linear gradient in Android tablet not extending to bottom of page

2013-01-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
adients is interesting, and I hope it gets an informative answer. I'd investigate it myself if I had an Android tablet handy. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kos

Re: [css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-25 Thread Eric
Philippe, > It comes down to the value set by the UA stylesheet (in case of font-size, > usually the value set in the browser preferences, or the system preferences). I knew I had read that somewhere. Thanks for clarifying it. Thanks, Eric On January 25, 2013 at 8:07 PM Philippe Witte

[css-d] My apologies to the List

2013-01-25 Thread Eric
I'm not usually a 'hot headed' type and my recent messages are not my usual tone and will not be my tone going forward. I apologize to all if I lowered the standards here. I hope I can provide useful information to anyone who wants/needs it in the futur

Re: [css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-25 Thread Eric
hat use a mix of fixed and relative units... it most often works however. Eric On January 25, 2013 at 12:37 AM Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > Le 25 janv. 2013 à 14:04, Eric a écrit : > > > What does that have to do with developing an understanding of relative units > &g

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
rning happens to be the eleventh anniversary of css-discuss. Party hats all 'round!) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff

Re: [css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-24 Thread Eric
xample I posted?! Well, I'll keep posting information to help folks learn and understand CSS. Feel free to run that info through the validator and a spell-checker if you want. Eric On January 24, 2013 at 2:22 PM Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Eric wrote: > > > I would assume the A

Re: [css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-24 Thread Eric
hen using EMs because they're relative to the parent element. Not sure if you've ever run across these issues, but I have and it's a major pain. And, those issues are exactly why the REM unit was developed. So shall we go into more detail on the REM and other relative units or mov

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-24 Thread Eric A. Meyer
estate the purpose of the list in case it helps with focus (if help is needed; I'm still trying to figure that out): "Practical discussions of CSS and its use". That is, how to use CSS in the real world, with awareness of one's real-world users and the limitations we

Re: [css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-24 Thread Eric
night when I sent that message. Eric On January 24, 2013 at 8:25 AM David Laakso wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Eric wrote: > > > Since I'm still in the process of getting to 'Pro" level I can point you to > > a tree Pro's site if you're intere

Re: [css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-23 Thread Eric
ques and to learn. One way I've learned in the past is to ask questions and listen to people who know more than I do...it sounds like this list may be just for posting URLs to code samples. Sorry, but I really did think that the info I posted was fairly clear. Eric. On January 23, 201

[css-d] New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-19 Thread Eric
ally from the EM unit. But just in case others don't let's take a look at a few paragraphs from Eric Meyer's new CSS booklet titled "Values, Units and Colors" <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920027621.do> On page 12 under the heading "Relative Length Units"

Re: [css-d] Media queries and em's (Philip TAYLOR)

2013-01-14 Thread Eric
ve to the font-size of the root element and is not subject to any other unit. html {font-size: 16px;} Then all REMs on the page will be 16px no matter what eles. When using EM's you can run into problems when the font-size or an element's parent has a

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