Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Freelance Traveller
tps://everythingfonts.com/font-face and click on the "browser compatibility" tab. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://freelancetraveller.downp

Re: [css-d] css for Android only?

2015-09-07 Thread Freelance Traveller
g it up and moving it to your ISP's co-lo facility. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller is a regis

[css-d] Is the em dash really one em?

2014-04-19 Thread Freelance Traveller
points, the second P will still be 9 points, but the SPAN inside the second P will be EIGHT (8) points instead of SIX (6), correct? Now, assuming that my understanding is correct... Are the character entities emsp (em space) and mdash (em dash) truly and reliably one em in width? Or does the

Re: [css-d] Media Queries: How many pixels make an em ?

2014-04-18 Thread Freelance Traveller
size on the HTML or BODY element, and (b) as long as you don't set the font size with !important, a user who desires text to be a different size (perhaps because of vision problems) can apply user-defined style(s) (in some browsers) and get his preferred size, without committing violence on th

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

2014-04-09 Thread Freelance Traveller
Currently, my website (Freelance Traveller, http://www.freelancetraveller.com) has slightly messy CSS to give the following appearance (view fixed font): ++ |Header | ++---+ |Nav |Content| |Menu

[css-d] Choosing Fonts: Best practice?

2014-03-23 Thread Freelance Traveller
fonts secondary in a font stack that only looks to general characteristics, thus keeping the 'weight' of the page down? -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://w

[css-d] Font Stacks and Web fonts

2014-03-12 Thread Freelance Traveller
ot;? -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2014. Use o

Re: [css-d] Bootstrap CSS...

2014-02-25 Thread Freelance Traveller
(which is mine, mine, all mine) and umborrow [sic]/modify the stuff relevant to .nav -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://come.to/freelancetraveller ht

Re: [css-d] Change formatting based on browser capability?

2014-02-17 Thread Freelance Traveller
Then, you either let the "marketplace" fight it out for the "correct" interpretation, or you appeal to the Working Group and say "The Specification is unclear in this way; here are alternative reasonable interpretations; which is correct?" and get a 'ruling

[css-d] Change formatting based on browser capability?

2014-02-17 Thread Freelance Traveller
an work out), and (b) HOW DO I DETECT whether display: run-in is supported so as to make the application of the appropriate CSS conditional on the support? I have full control over the HTML, so adding classes or IDs to DLs, DTs, or DDs isn't an issue. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelanc

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

2014-02-15 Thread Freelance Traveller
ted by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ >> > > > >-- >/* Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh >--oO0> */ >______ >css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] >http://w

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

2013-09-21 Thread Freelance Traveller
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:24:33 -0700, John wrote: >On 9/21/13 2:44 PM, Freelance Traveller wrote: >> I'd just tend to write >> to the standard, >And what would that standard be? It's almost as though there are two: >the w3c-compliant world, and the IE world. Les

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

2013-09-21 Thread Freelance Traveller
cific support at all. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://come.to/freelancetraveller http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller is a registe

[css-d] Support for display: run-in

2013-09-20 Thread Freelance Traveller
also solve the problem I posed in the April 2010 thread: dt { display: run-in; ... } would appear to answer the question as posed. However, using the dfn tag as suggested is arguably correct as well.) -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Travell

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

2013-01-29 Thread Freelance Traveller
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[css-d] TwoQuestions: min/max-width, change layout with width

2012-01-23 Thread Freelance Traveller
will explain how best to do so? -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com http://come.to/freelancetraveller http://freelancetraveller.downport.com/ ®Traveller

Re: [css-d] trouble using attribute select to display document file type icon on link

2011-08-12 Thread Freelance Traveller
round: a[href$='pdf']:after { content: url(http://168.156.9.250:8080/imgs/layout/icon_pdf.gif); } ***NOTE: A very cursory google didn't tell me whether it should be a:after[href$='pdf'] or the way I have it here. I don't have a lot of confidence in my memory of

[css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread Freelance Traveller
hich ones - and which versions? Is it a useful feature at all, or is it a "don't even bother" feature? Are there any special considerations to take into account when using it? Are there any good references that discuss this feature in depth? -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Tr

Re: [css-d] styling table to have blank rows?

2011-02-20 Thread Freelance Traveller
to give additional space-after. Your DL would look roughly like Table Heading Site name Site URL Site name Site URL Site name Site URL ... and your CSS roughly like .sitelist DD { margin-bottom: 1em; } -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan

Re: [css-d] ::first-word pseudo-element (and other pseudo-ideas)

2010-12-11 Thread Freelance Traveller
Thai is unique in that respect; the same may be true of many Southeast Asian, East Asian, and *nesian languages that have not adopted western or Indian scripts. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetr

Re: [css-d] How opposite floats work

2010-09-12 Thread Freelance Traveller
S work - at the "single layer" level. I would have been more interested if Gabriele's article had dug into what happens when floats are nested - I seem to recall that I had a lot of problems with objects overlapping unexpectedly when I floated them; if you look at the screen.cs

Re: [css-d] Print Stylesheets: Two-column, newspaper/book style - How?

2010-06-16 Thread Freelance Traveller
hich I would find ... unsatisfactory. I'll experiment with this, though, and see how well it works in Gecko and Webkit. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com htt

Re: [css-d] Alternative format for definitions?

2010-04-27 Thread Freelance Traveller
quot; is used to style the DTs I'd say it may be a good idea to >use them to clear too. >And to be safe, applying overflow:hidden;zoom:1 (or your favorite block >formatting context/hasLayout trigger) on the DL would also prevent potential >issues related to thes

Re: [css-d] Alternative format for definitions?

2010-04-26 Thread Freelance Traveller
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:35:31 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela" wrote: >Freelance Traveller wrote: >> I have found that many of the documents that I am converting from Word >> to web contain definitions, but in a format that doesn't work well >> with the default form

[css-d] Alternative format for definitions?

2010-04-26 Thread Freelance Traveller
cians are those individuals who perform... CSS: .inline-definition DT { ...? } .inline-definition DD { ...? } -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Fanzine and Resource edi...@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com

Re: [css-d] "Transcendant" web design and CSS3

2010-03-07 Thread Freelance Traveller
#x27;d like to know that the support is there and relatively >> stable before attempting to use it. > >This is a great resource: >http://a.deveria.com/caniuse/ Thank you; this does indeed appear to be quite useful - and tells me that CSS3 is not ready for prime time, and probably sho