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

2016-01-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
I'd have to put my vote with the mailing list not a forum. Every group I've been with that has moved to forums or FaceBook I've just lost interest in. There are very few forums I even bother to go to for help. Forums can be awkward to search and FaceBook is almost impossible. With mailing lists

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

2015-12-23 Thread Kathy Wheeler
LOl yes, 4. Do nothing ... On 12/24/2015, at 10:44 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: > I do hope you > would consider a fourth option of just keeping it up. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailma

Re: [css-d] Font Stacks and Web fonts

2014-03-12 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 03/13/2014, at 6:30 AM, Chris Rockwell wrote: >> 1. In this sort of situation, is the webfont unconditionally downloaded, >> or is it ignored unless/until actually needed? >> > I think it is ignored. According to the spec, the fonts can be > automatically fetched and downloaded _when_neede

Re: [css-d] Image and background colour changes on hover.

2013-05-07 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/08/2013, at 12:44 PM, Anna Gav wrote: > Re: http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/703/sdfdsf.png > Ideally, I'd like to do this using CSS, but to be honest it looks way > too complicated with all the sharp angles. I wish I had time to play with it ... but you should be able to do that with

Re: [css-d] headline moving down page face?

2012-07-09 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 07/10/2012, at 8:41 AM, Greg Wilker wrote: > Can > anyone tell me why the headline item "Announcements > Available" is moving down the page? td.classAd2 { ... deleted stuff ... vertical-align: middle; <== this is why. } KathyW. __

Re: [css-d] DIV won't float: right as intended (resolved)

2012-02-12 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 02/13/2012, at 8:20 AM, Tim Dawson wrote: > Why is it that the moment one posts something to this list the solution dawns > ? Because the very act of explaining a problem to someone else *so that they understand it* often makes the problem and potential solution clearer to the person doing

Re: [css-d] @Fontface Not Working?

2012-01-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 01/05/2012, at 9:53 AM, Joergen W. Lang wrote: > Am 04.01.12 23:26, schrieb Kathy Wheeler: >> On 01/05/2012, at 8:52 AM, Joergen W. Lang wrote: >>> For future projects you might also consider using a web font >>> service such as Fontsquirrel to avoid other

Re: [css-d] @Fontface Not Working?

2012-01-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 01/05/2012, at 8:52 AM, Joergen W. Lang wrote: > For future projects you might also consider using a web font service such as > Fontsquirrel to avoid other web font-related issues. What are the other "web font-related" issues you refer to here? KathyW. __

Re: [css-d] safari, gimp, photoshop and color consistency

2011-08-11 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 08/12/2011, at 8:24 AM, John wrote: > wrangling color issues here. sometimes working in gimp, sometimes in > photoshop. noticing colors aren't matching up tho they be picked by their > number and not by eye. Do you mean the image colorpicker rbg values don't match their css equivalent rende

Re: [css-d] IE9 Question from XP user.

2011-03-15 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 03/16/2011, at 11:53 AM, Al Sparber wrote: > It works for IE8, too. What happened with your client is that he probably was > using IE7. You are using IE8 and could not duplicate the problem until you > went into Compatibility View, which essentially means that your IE8 was > behaving like it

Re: [css-d] IE9 Question from XP user.

2011-03-15 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 03/16/2011, at 8:47 AM, Al Sparber wrote: > The biggest source for issues in IE9 is when users inadvertantly click the > compatibility view icon. To prevent that, we usually recomend using this meta > tag in your page: > > xhtml version: > > > html version: > Does that trick also work fo

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 11/05/2010, at 10:53 AM, Ada Elgavish wrote: > I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS > Validator mean...; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them...I do understand, > though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the > vertical nav

Re: [css-d] Blocking css was ADMIN: Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 11/05/2010, at 1:36 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > Of course, we could bring it back on-topic by discussing various ways to > employ user stylesheets to block the display of ads while avoiding (as much > as possible) the suppression of non-ad content. Actually, that and a comment by another p

Re: [css-d] Colors in PShop vs. browser

2009-07-24 Thread Kathy Wheeler
> Hi, has anyone else experienced seeing colors somewhat differently in > Photoshop vs. a web browser? Everything looks significantly darker in > Photoshop. It certainly adds an unnecessary obstacle to the design > process! > Any tips on why this might be happening, and how to alleviate it? A goo

Re: [css-d] IE 8

2009-05-14 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 15/05/2009, at 4:28 AM, Vincent Pollard wrote: > I used to love using Multiples IES but I have seen several instances > over the past two years where Multiples IEs gave us a different result > from 'real' IE6. I've seen 'real' IE6's on two different machines give different results to each o

Re: [css-d] IE 8

2009-05-05 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 06/05/2009, at 12:42 AM, Reese wrote: > Kathy Wheeler wrote: >> I have asked for documented proofs of this before and so far have >> received none! Not even sample URL's. I would appreciate more details >> on those "20 instances". > > Here's one

Re: [css-d] IE 8

2009-05-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/05/2009, at 5:25 AM, Court Kizer wrote: > I recommend staying away from multiple IE I can think of 20 instances > where it will render different from a machine with the real thing. > Virtualiin is free. I have asked for documented proofs of this before and so far have received none! Not

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 15/04/2009, at 8:10 AM, Brian Hazelton wrote: > When should I use an image and when should i use it as a background > image. If an image is purely decorative, it makes sense to utilise css background techniques and keep it out of the content flow. If on the other hand it's an integral pa

Re: [css-d] css3 selectors

2009-03-26 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 27/03/2009, at 4:26 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: > But there are a few things I wish for that would make even more > semantic sense. A. lists contained in paragraphs, or B. a list > header element (like thead or th) Perhaps a definition list could be styled to achieve what you want? http:/

Re: [css-d] 2 css interfering using conditional comments

2009-03-18 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 19/03/2009, at 6:25 AM, rose red wrote: >> In a sense, yes. IE6 sees all styles, so interference is guaranteed. >> >> 1: reverse the order of the stylesheets. Correct IE6 AFTER the main >> stylesheet. >> >> Having done battle with ie5 vs ie6 vs ie7 this week with JQuery plugins and fallba

Re: [css-d] Image Slices

2009-03-18 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 19/03/2009, at 6:11 AM, Christopher R wrote: > Here is my Image slices problem you'll see on the page > http://www.thecreativesheep.ca/site/imagepage3.html > the slices are not in order on the page and they should be at the > top within the Check your css: http://tinyurl.com/dz4tpy Also im

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-14 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 13/03/2009, at 9:12 PM, david wrote: > And who says that CNN or any other particular site is doing it > "right"? I'm not saying they are "doing it right", personally I think it's too small. What I *am* saying is: 1. that is what Joe Average user is used to seeing; 2. those who have diffic

[css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-12 Thread Kathy Wheeler
I know the mantra: let the user decide, set font-size to 100% but ... Looking at major general news sites, popular public blogging etc sites, they ALL seem to have fonts set much smaller. This being the case surely the visually impaired surfer, being otherwise perfectly normal individuals fr

Re: [css-d] not exactly centred

2009-03-11 Thread Kathy Wheeler
>> I bet I know what the color matching problem is. I just went >> through a >> BIG learning curve because of this issue. I think it's that the >> image >> was saved with a Color Profile attached/embedded. Almost all >> browsers >> ignore color profiles, but Safari pays attention to th

Re: [css-d] other alphabets

2009-02-25 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 26/02/2009, at 1:24 AM, Nicky McCatty wrote: > I want the Greek to appear on a web page. > > Sometimes the characters with diacritical marks change into ascii > junk, and sometimes they don't. I am using fonts that contain a > complete set of Greek characters, but the results are inconsistent.

Re: [css-d] Transparent Rows

2009-02-19 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 19/02/2009, at 1:02 PM, Bill Brown wrote: >background: rgba(153,153,153,0.5); Ooooh ... rgba ... I like it. How well supported is the a (alpha)? KathyW. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss

Re: [css-d] New to List First question.

2009-02-18 Thread Kathy Wheeler
> Michael Adams wrote: >> To bring it back on track - controlling pages using CSS; i use a well >> known technique which makes IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 behave very similar to >> each other. Throw them into quirks mode intentionally, After re-reading this a couple of times ... do you mean you *only*

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-05 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/02/2009, at 11:49 PM, Daniel Kessler wrote: > In another test page, I had changed it out for p tags like you but > that hadn't helped it center. The major difference seemed to be > width:100%. For educational reasons, why did that work? Without the width specified the p tag block will

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/02/2009, at 11:39 AM, Mark Vickers wrote: > FWIW, your solution works perfectly in Opera and Safari on XP Pro > SP3. On > IE, surprise surprise, it breaks: horizontal centring still works, > but the > slideshow is still glued to the top of the black box. Haven't > checked any > browser

Re: [css-d] centering a jquery slideshow

2009-02-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 05/02/2009, at 3:08 AM, Daniel Kessler wrote: > I have a slideshow using jquery: > http://sph.umd.edu/home/test_css2.cfm > > I'd like to center the images within the black box. Looking at the JQuery docs for InnerFade you aren't limited to using ul li constructs. Perhaps replacing the lis

Re: [css-d] CSS3 question redux: How do you select based on whether an element contains a particular child element?

2009-01-28 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 29/01/2009, at 8:28 AM, Dylan Wilbanks wrote: > The rule he wants to set is: > IF an A element does NOT have a child element IMG, THEN apply this > style. You should be able to do it with javascript DOM manipulation, but that's probably outside this list spec. KathyW.

Re: [css-d] button hover

2009-01-21 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 21/01/2009, at 5:42 PM, Michał Zieliński wrote: Lets say that one banner is 5KB * 4 = 20KB With sprites it will take more or less 40KB. It`s a huge difference to achieve such effect, don`t you think? If you use absolute positioning and a small transparent gif with a transparent background

Re: [css-d] Bizarre behavior with id as # anchor target

2008-05-19 Thread Kathy Wheeler
Thanks for the reply Kepler. On 20/05/2008, at 11:37 AM, Kepler Gelotte wrote: > What appears to be happening is that your second section is > scrolling under > your first section. It is not disappearing, just hidden. Agreed. > If you tab around > the bottom half will shift as focus changes.

[css-d] Bizarre behavior with id as # anchor target

2008-05-19 Thread Kathy Wheeler
I am not sure if this is a css issue, html issue or browser rendering issue (leaning towards the latter myself) but it has me stumped. The following (Drupal generated) page validates XHTML 1.0 Strict and with only 2 minor css issues (max-min) I'm prepared to put up with. But when it is loade

Re: [css-d] Could browsers miss CSS declarations?

2008-05-06 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 06/05/2008, at 5:45 PM, Usamah al-Amin wrote: > body { > background: #dedede url(header.jpg) no-repeat top center; > } > > It could very possibly to miss downloading the header image, but could > it possible to miss applying the background color (#dedede) for some > odd reason? Check to

Re: [css-d] menus with uneven placements

2008-03-19 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 20/03/2008, at 12:13 PM, Stuart King wrote: > http://www.adrianavargasdesign.com/indexsk.html Sturt, my first thought was "imagemap" ... so I Googled "css imagemap" to see what the current state-of-play is with the imagemap concept and found this: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/imagem

Re: [css-d] New CSS/html tools?..

2008-03-10 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 11/03/2008, at 12:34 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: > WeBuilder from Bluementals > http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/ WeBuilder is windows only. > -Original Message- > Karl Jacobs > > I'm really ready to dump BBedit, ... BBedit is Mac only. Unless Kar is dumping the Mac as well, WeBui

Re: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for

2008-03-09 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 09/03/2008, at 6:40 AM, Karl Hardisty wrote: > A comparison of usage before and > after is generally a good idea. If a site design changes, and > suddenly a certain type of browser/platform combination drops off > markedly, there's probably a good reason. However it may also pay to check ove

Re: [css-d] Site Check in IE5/Mac

2008-03-06 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 07/03/2008, at 5:48 AM, Kroon.Kurtis wrote: > He should look into iCab: it's been around since system 7, the Mac > "Classic" version was last updated on 1 January *2008*, it runs > quite well on older Macintosh operating systems, and it supports > enough CSS (among Other Things) to pass A

Re: [css-d] Typoantialiasing problem on Mac.

2008-03-05 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 06/03/2008, at 4:43 AM, Mark Slosarek wrote: > Windows and Macs just render fonts differently: http:// > www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000884.html And this one: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html >> I have strange Problem on Firefox (MAC) on some sites i programm. >>

Re: [css-d] form elements in 2 columns using css

2008-02-28 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 28/02/2008, at 10:34 AM, Rob freeman wrote: > Hi thats fine, but i would like the comment title and field to come up > and sit along side the name and email field. i hope this makes sense Ahhh ... now I follow. You've added fieldset(s) and class = left (right) but you've not added the clas

Re: [css-d] form elements in 2 columns using css

2008-02-27 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 28/02/2008, at 9:47 AM, Rob freeman wrote: > Hi everyone, I was wondering how I can create a 2 columns form without > adding extra markup. Here is the link to the form: Add a float:left and a width to your label declaration. For eg: label{ display:block; float: left;

Re: [css-d] Font name

2008-02-25 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 26/02/2008, at 1:21 AM, Mário Gamito wrote: > Does anyone know the font name that is used in this picture ? > > http://www.absinto.org/einstein.010.png > > I'd like to use it in a site, but I can't figure out what it is. To bring things back on topic, here's a site I find very useful for det

Re: [css-d] My first tableless site - Need Advice on css mistakes.

2008-02-14 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 15/02/2008, at 1:24 AM, Big Moxy wrote: > IE runs on Mac. Have you check the MS site or Google'd for a download? > Cynthia Villegas wrote: >> I have no ways of testing this on IE (mac user). ie on the Mac is pretty awful and not a good guide as to how css will render under ie on a pc. Cyn

Re: [css-d] start an ordered list at a number > 1

2008-02-07 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 08/02/2008, at 10:22 AM, Tim White wrote: > You can use (whatever number you need) to start a > list at a > new number. Or, you can use to skip numbering within > a list. > > Both attributes are deprecated, so they are only valid under HTML > 4.01 or > XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I'm kinda

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-16 Thread Kathy Wheeler
>>> -Original Message- >>> David wrote: >>> >>> Javascript is a security threat to visitors' computers. >>> CSS is not. I seem to recall that at one stage certain versions of Netscape/ Mozilla would not render CSS at all if Javascript was disabled. I have no idea whether that is still t

Re: [css-d] CSS Sheet and Links List Do-able?

2007-09-23 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 23/09/2007, at 1:59 PM, Meg Fuller wrote: > Greetings, I Am looking for a way to take and have a links list on > a css that I can just change the css and have our 50 + pages > changed instead of changing each one. [ scratches head ... ] Could you explain it a bit more clearly please Meg

Re: [css-d] Int. Explorer 7 - need help - fixed

2007-06-01 Thread Kathy Wheeler
Hi Trish, On 02/06/2007, at 5:38 AM, Trish Meyer wrote: > In my case it was user error (I hope, waiting on confirmation from an > IE7 user). > http://www.vivagallery.org/exhibits/PSA_2007/index.html Seems to work fine now - ie7, win XP home, under VirtualPC (on my Mac). Would also appreciate he

Re: [css-d] Double space after a period

2006-10-15 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 16/10/2006, at 10:30 AM, michael ensor wrote: > As someone who worked as a proof reader on a morning newspaper in the > hot metal days, I can tell you that the "double space" after a > period was a > function of the typesetting machines, because the full stop slug > and the following > cap