Re: [css-d] Spheres with box-shadow and background gradient

link goes to a page that lists Firefox above safari on your "Honor Roll" (presumably for CSS compliance). Why is that? Firefox is my preferred browser, but my understanding is that WebKit (Safari and Chrome) has had better standards compliance than Firefox by pretty much any measure

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS animated 3D Super Mario Icon

d hoped that Gecko's CSS support had improved enough to make at least some progress on how this page displays. -- Erik Harris http://www.eHarrisHome.com - AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - "Weary the path that does not

Re: [css-d] Lists, margins, padding in IE

adhere to the standards. I found two "Firebug IE bookmarklets," but couldn't get either to work (one does nothing, another opens a blank console box at the bottom of the window). -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngF

[css-d] Lists, margins, padding in IE

splays as expected in both browsers), but I don't see what I'm doing differently on this list. -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-I

[css-d] Absolute blocks overflow containing blocks - any way to avoid it?

m/wp/ , which I've asked a few questions about before here. -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Marti

[css-d] declaration specificity - less-specific line overrides more-specific line?

king is incorrect, and why CSS is interpreting it this way? I tried replacing all of my "#pages" lines in my CSS file with "#sidebar #pages" but that seemed to break a lot of things, so I changed it back. -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarris

Re: [css-d] More than one background image to ?

ging from the message date and the Firefox release history, this was Gecko 1.6, and Firefox 0.8 that had the problem. I kept an alternate CSS file around and verified that a couple later versions had the same problem, but I stopped checking shortly after that. -- Erik Harris

Re: [css-d] More than one background image to ?

On 10/1/2008 7:45 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Erik Harris wrote: >> Yes, but not specifically on the element. I actually just >> asked a question troubleshooting this very application. You can see >> the fixed (thanks to Georg) version on my work-in-progress site at

Re: [css-d] More than one background image to ?

numbers of one tiled image. Having learned that lesson then, I've continued to apply it whether or not it's still necessary. For a 103-byte GIF file, it's not worth worrying about whether it'd be slightly more efficient if I made it 7x1 instead of 7x16. -- Erik Harris

Re: [css-d] More than one background image to ?

wise, it could've been 7x1). -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu-silat.com ___

Re: [css-d] More than one background image to ?

d in current versions of Gecko, but enough people use outdated browsers that I wouldn't use it, since the same thing can be easily done with and a . -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172

[css-d] CSS-based drop-shadow images - troubleshooting help?

ception: Timed out", so I don't know if I've got any typos that have resulted in bad CSS syntax. I also haven't gone through to delete CSS code that I'm not using, so there's a lot of superfluous stuff. -- Erik Harrishttp://w

Re: [css-d] Creating a forum

opied/pasted the appropriate parts into a basic WP theme, and made some semi-minor changes to the CSS file. A forum is a bit more structured, but the same principles should apply, I'd think. -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yah

Re: [css-d] Two background images on the {body}

homa, sans-serif; color: #000; margin: 0em; height: 100% } div.secondbackground { background: transparent url(pics/TigerBack.gif) repeat-y 99% 0%; margin: 0em; min-height: 100% } -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: ku

Re: [css-d] How to make one DIV appear at the bottom of another?

On 5/1/2008 8:40 PM, Mark Henderson wrote: > Erik Harris wrote: >> <http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_8d.html> >> Interesting. This one doesn't work at all in IE6 (at least not in >> IE6-Standalone), despite supposedly being a way to make fixed >> positioning

Re: [css-d] How to make one DIV appear at the bottom of another?

On 4/29/2008 5:26 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Erik Harris wrote: >> I'm setting up a small site with WordPress, and am having trouble >> getting my footer to the bottom of its containing DIV. >> >> http://www.vantagehoa.org/wordpress/regional-info/ >> 1 - How d

[css-d] How to make one DIV appear at the bottom of another?

ng good in FF (all on WinXP). I appreciate any help you guys can offer. -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu-silat.com _

[css-d] Problems with a footer sitting too high

t;). FWIW, I'm testing primarily in Firefox 3.0B5, but also periodically in IE 7 and IE6 (all on WinXP). I appreciate any help you guys can offer. -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kung

[css-d] IE6 truncating DIVs

edesigning the site? Thanks, -- Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu

Re: [css-d] How will firefox 3 affect web developers?

users to need to mask their user agent frequently, either. That's why I figure users who use Opera and mask their user agent have only themselves to blame for no one taking Opera seriously based on visitor stats. Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.co

Re: [css-d] How will firefox 3 affect web developers?

ot;other" on the various lists. Yeah, I know Opera includes a built-in user agent switcher that could deflate its stats, but if it's own users won't even stand up and be counted, I'm not going to bother trying to guess how many of them there might be. :) Erik Harris

Re: [css-d] How will firefox 3 affect web developers?

compliance that I wouldn't expect anything I'd be doing would break it. As a Windows user, Safari wasn't even a possibility until recently). Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 -

Re: [css-d] How will firefox 3 affect web developers?

the same manner for various reasons (viewport size, browser version, user preferences, etc), but that's not what designing to the "lowest common denominator" means. It's about designing so that the page looks acceptable on the "lowest common denominator" (which, depen

Re: [css-d] How will firefox 3 affect web developers?

is really nice, but since we're talking about a browser that has, depending on who you ask, 5-15% of the browser market share, it really doesn't mean much to a web developer that isn't willing to spite everyone who uses inferior rendering engines. :) Erik Harris

[css-d] Safari Mac site check?

site's main page). I've been testing in Firefox 2, IE6, and IE7, and aside from IE6's ignorance of the min-width value (which should be a problem for very, very few users), it seems to be displaying as expected in all three. Erik Harrishttp://

Re: [css-d] IE6 - Background color ignored

At 11:15 PM 10/3/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Erik Harris wrote: >>Can someone please glance at www.harriswholehealth.com and see if you >> can figure out why the header background displays as plain white in >> Internet Explorer 6 (when the window is expanded to greater

[css-d] IE6 - Background color ignored

position: relative; background: #9EBADA; } #header img { display: block; } Thanks, Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://

Re: [css-d] Font shorthand "broken"

hand >actually says that you have to specify a font when using the font short- >hand property (a font-family, to be precise). Ah, thanks Bjoern! I was sure I was missing something obvious. Sure enough, I was. :) Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -

[css-d] Font shorthand "broken"

e is as good as the other (i.e. the one that works), but it seems that, according to the spec, both should be equivalent. Given that it fails to work in both Firefox and IE7, I'm sure _I'm_ doing something wrong; I just don't know what. Erik Harris

[css-d] max-height and containers...

height dynamically determined by the amount of text in it? Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts C

[css-d] Unwanted underlines in image links (Firefox)

ith no luck. Nothing seems to turn off the rather unsightly underline in Firefox. Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club

Re: [css-d] LI width - explicit definition?

;s no alpha channel, I didn't think IE (6 or 7) would have any issues with it. Guess I overestimated Microsoft's competence. :) Your point about HTML/CSS not being "exactly the same" from user to user is absolutely true, but the same argument does not follow for raster

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

who has update notification turned on will be prompted to install it automatically, so it should have pretty wide usage among WinXP users who haven't seen the light and downloaded Firefox or Opera. :) Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJ

[css-d] LI width - explicit definition?

nd it's not a CSS issue - why does IE7 render my horizontal striped background PNG darker than Firefox? I switch between the two windows and see a distinct difference in hue between the two, and it's most noticeable in the background image (I haven't done a color-picker comparison of th

Re: [css-d] CSS-based calendars?

mplementation issues, or limitations in my skill level. This will probably be no different. :-) Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial

[css-d] CSS-based calendars?

of month, the dates would display on the correct days, in the correct places on a generically defined calendar), but I know that creating a basically-tabular layout with CSS is often a big challenge. Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe -

[css-d] CSS-ifying YouTube embedded videos

of the "Back to Menu" buttons? Do I have to shorten the hidden text in the link (although it's a big no-no in general, I don't have any real qualms about making _this_ part of the site unfriendly to text browsers, since the very idea of a web interface for watchin

Re: [css-d] CSS/JS dropdowns over Flash in Safari -- flickering

down menus _don't_ appear behind Flash elements. Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu-silat.com __

Re: [css-d] centering an absolutely positioned DIV

nserts into any HTML files uploaded, and doesn't affect other file types. Thanks for pointing this out! I'd have never noticed it if someone who set their browser up to allow all of that crap didn't point it out for me, since I do my cross-browser testing locally. ;-) Erik H

[css-d] centering an absolutely positioned DIV

help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu

Re: [css-d] absolute positioning within a DIV

At 05:41 PM 2/25/2006, Erik Harris wrote: >The work-in-progress page is here: > >http://www.fileh.com/kungfujoe/WebDVD/index.html >[...] >specify offsets with respect to the box's containing block." Isn't a DIV a >containing block? More specifically, how do I ma

[css-d] absolute positioning within a DIV

orner of the portal window, and not of the parent DIV. Unfortunately, the example given on A List Apart forces its menu to the upper-left corner of the portal window (a convenient "fix" for my problem), but I really want to have mine centered. I'm not quite sure what I

Re: [css-d] Image Boundaries in Firefox?

the specs recently enough to remember that "none" was the default border-style. I had thought that "solid" was the default border style, which is why I didn't bother specifying it. Problem solved. Thanks for the quick response (to both you and Schalk) Erik Harris

[css-d] Image Boundaries in Firefox?

much up anyhow). Thanks Erik Harrishttp://www.eHarrisHome.com -AIM: KngFuJoe - Yahoo IM: kungfujoe7 - ICQ: 2610172- Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club http://www.kungfu-silat.com ___

Re: [css-d] Re: setting a background image with firefox.

ages/ then "./images" means "www.woogle.com/pages/images" and "../images" means "www.woogle.com/images" It's not a hack - it's just knowing where your images reside. :) Erik Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: K