Re: [css-d] [OT] how hard would it be...

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 11 April 2012 00:23, Christian Hanvey wrote: [snip] I could not find anything in the spec referring as to why we only use the American spelling rather than International spelling. Cheers! Completely OT for this list IIUC. The W3C has mailing lists too. The original authors of HTML

Re: [css-d] Adblocker and css classes/ids

2012-02-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 20 February 2012 07:08, Graham Hays wrote: Hi Barney (ad anyone else) Personally I'm not a lover of random classnames (or filenames) - if a class does something then I call it that. The problem I had was that this wasn't an advert as such - on our site we had used the folder name

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 12 November 2011 01:52, mem wrote: On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:51 , David Laakso wrote: I'd suggest that you simply put a full and complete rough layout /on your server/ that reflects your intended final goal. Allow it to speak for itself. No novella to accompany it is needed.

Re: [css-d] PNG IE 6

2011-07-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 09 July 2011 04:49, david wrote: And we've been through this before. My employer uses IE6 for its 1600+ employees. We do this because some of our mission-critical corporate web apps don't work in anything except IE6 (including newer versions of IE). And for solutions to *YOUR*

Re: [css-d] problem with overflow: visible under IE8 resizing the containing node

2011-04-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 16 April 2011 16:19, David Hucklesby wrote: [snip] Without a DOCTYPE, browsers are in quirks mode. Real browsers still obey CSS rules except for a couple of things like box sizing. All versions of IE will behave like IE 5.5 though. If you want to keep browsers in quirks mode,

Re: [css-d] [OT] :: ie/7.0 ::

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 07 October 2010 12:12, David Laakso wrote: Why does this page [1] crash IE/7.0 ? I'm wondering - does anyone else drop all posts/threads from repeat OT posters? I'm considering it here. I have seen some repeatedly being told this is not the appropriate forum for their questions

Re: [css-d] [OT] Ignored (was - Embedding an .mov file: embed src)

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 15 September 2010 06:35, Lalena wrote: Hi everyone, You are being generally ignored because your question has nothing to do with CSS and is therefore considered off topic [OT]. http://css-discuss.org/about.html Try the webdesign list here: http://webdesign-L.com/ HTH --

Re: [css-d] Type sizes?

2010-09-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 10 September 2010 00:18, tedd wrote: [snip] You can also use em's, such as: body { font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; } and then base everything else upon that, such as: That isn't a good idea. If you specify the body font

Re: [css-d] Artifact on CSS dropdown menu

2010-09-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 03 September 2010 17:42, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Michael Adams wrote: I see a different problem: http://cfajohnson.com/testing/quickconvert.jpg I dont see the menu wrap as an issue (i dont have a designers bone in my body). I intend to extend

Re: [css-d] Artifact on CSS dropdown menu

2010-09-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Friday 03 September 2010 20:12, Alan Gresley wrote: The artifact is the border here. .horizontalmenu ul li ul { left: -999em; top: 2em; border-top: 1px solid #222; /* delete */ position: absolute; display: block; z-index: 100; } And add the below to your

[css-d] Artifact on CSS dropdown menu

2010-09-02 Thread Michael Adams
This is a concept website that i am working on. The main issue i am having with it is a line which extends of to the left when the ul:hover is activated in various browsers. There is a gap of a couple of pixels between the parent li and the first child li which seems to get exagerated on

Re: [css-d] [OT] Out of the stone age

2010-08-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 26 August 2010 06:07, Lineberger, Scott wrote: [snip] There has to be a way to streamline this. Due to the age of this server and the legacy app, it seems my options are limited. checkboxes / tickboxes -- Michael

Re: [css-d] ID vs. Class [solved]

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 15:37, Chris Blake wrote: I like to treat class and id semantically -- or at least according to my understanding of what that means. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME! But there is nothing really wrong with a combination of both:- code div id=this1 class=content Content /div

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs Unicode

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 20:57, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: If I have a page such as the following : !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; html head meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=utf-8

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs Unicode

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 23:02, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: I think that there is a great deal of unintentional racism in the US-English-centric web that we use today, but the last time a group of us tried to raise this as a serious issue within the CSS working group, one of the

Re: [css-d] IE hacks - css conditions

2010-06-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 26 June 2010 20:31, Alan Gresley wrote: Michael Adams wrote: A few years back i dropped conditional comments in favour of the CSS IE @import hack[1][2][3]. Now i find myself in a position where i want to send one thing to ie7 ie8 and another to all other browsers. What i

[css-d] IE hacks - css conditions

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Adams
A few years back i dropped conditional comments in favour of the CSS IE @import hack[1][2][3]. Now i find myself in a position where i want to send one thing to ie7 ie8 and another to all other browsers. What i want to do is give CSS rounded corners and opacity to all browsers that support

Re: [css-d] character encoding?

2010-06-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 03:50, r...@catjuggling.com wrote: I apologize if this is considered off-topic, but it's here that I find people talking most about validating pages. I am trying to find out why my documents are validated as Tentatively checked as HTML 4.01 Strict with warnings about

Re: [css-d] tiny font in Safari and Chrome

2010-05-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 29 May 2010 08:50, Angela French wrote: I'm building a new site and I just discovered that Safari and Chrome render the font very small. My css looks like this: body { font-size:100%; } p {font-size: .8em;} Read this before continuing: http://informationarchitects.jp/100E2R/

Re: [css-d] tiny font in Safari and Chrome

2010-05-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 29 May 2010 11:58, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Have you had a look at your page with the WebKit Inspector ? It would immediately tell you that WebKit based browsers (Safari, Chrome) load a stylesheet '/Styles/safari.css' with only one rule: body { font-size: 10px; }

Re: [css-d] CSS3 Please code and Explorer support

2010-03-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 29 March 2010 17:14, David Hucklesby wrote: On 3/28/10 8:59 PM, Dave M G wrote: CSS-d, I got some code from the CSS3 Please web site: http://css3please.com/ For the box-shadow effect, it indicates that it can be used in IE 6, 7, and 8. However, when I look at it with my

Re: [css-d] alpha opacity filter in FF

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 11:42, Supita wrote: Hello to all: I'm working on some panels. We need that, when the text doesn't fit in one line, the text be cutted at the end of the line, and it looks like it is fading. I can do that effect using filter:

Re: [css-d] validating CSS

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:57:36 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by jeffrey morin to my mailbox: I was discussing some CSS techniques the other day and someone brought up a point of a certain fix that I use not validating in the CSS validator. I have never really been overly concerned with

Re: [css-d] Where do I make a suggestion for the Policies page?

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:28:49 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Theresa Mesa to my mailbox: Having refreshed my memory by reading the policies - so I don't continually get my hands slapped - I have a suggestion for a snippet of text to be added so that no one is surprised that the CSS

Re: [css-d] Removing the Blank Line/Space between Paragraphs

2009-07-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:22:59 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Bob Rosenberg to my mailbox: At 16:13 +0900 on 07/26/2009, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote about Re: [css-d] Removing the Blank Line/Space between Paragraph: On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Bob Rosenberg wrote: I use the

Re: [css-d] An easier way?

2009-07-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:24:59 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by David McGlone to my mailbox: Hi everyone, I know everyone here prefers that when a question is asked, that the poster upload an example on the web. Well is there any other way this could be accomplished? In order for me

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

2009-07-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:34:04 -0500 Came this utterance formulated by Lalena to my mailbox: 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

Re: [css-d] [OT] SEO links

2009-07-20 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:09:07 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Bob Rosenberg to my mailbox: At 20:47 -0500 on 07/18/2009, Reese wrote about Re: [css-d] Problem with all Mac browsers according to Brow: It isn't asnSEO-friendly as text links and SEO-friendliness is important. So

Re: [css-d] Number click Photo Gallery

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:52:44 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Brian Curran to my mailbox: Hi All, I'm a beginner at web design, so What I'd like to do on one web page is to display a portfolio of pictures of buildings. I envision: On the left hand side of the page to have a list of

Re: [css-d] Posting 101 [OT]

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:31:21 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Brian Curran to my mailbox: Can someone give me the Posting 101 on why my post was one long run-on line of text? I use Outlook, if that impacts anything??? This is way off topic for this list. General discussions of this

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:11:32 +0300 Came this utterance formulated by Jon Wickström to my mailbox: And yet you have a fake XML declaration in line 9 which does nothing that i can see. Still would validate though. It's a HTML-comment. I can't see what difference it would make. It was

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:44:27 +0300 Came this utterance formulated by Jon Wickström to my mailbox: Fix the errors in your xhtml first. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ekebodagis. fi%2Fekebo%2Ftest.htmlcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doct ype=Inlinegroup=0 Now my

Re: [css-d] OFF TOPIC (webpage size)

2009-04-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:01:24 -0600 Came this utterance formulated by Brian Hazelton to my mailbox: Just out of curiosity, if i had a page with a width of 768px total, and the rest is a subtle bg, would that be too small of a width? For a phone that can view 400px wide or a 2400px wide

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:44:04 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Divya Manian to my mailbox: On 4/9/09 1:37 PM, Michael Adams linux_m...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Divya - I disagree. IE7 handles the XML declaration fine in standards mode[1]. Although i see it on line 8 when it should

Re: [css-d] page-break-inside:avoid; not working

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:43:27 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Yvan Daneault to my mailbox: I am a web-design teacher who's in the process of putting his documentation online, but I also want my students to occasionnally print the pages. The situation is as follows: I do not want

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:16:29 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Divya Manian to my mailbox: On 4/2/09 6:30 AM, Jon Wickström jon.wickst...@arrak.fi wrote: The look I'm after is a double border with the inner border the same color as the parent bg, and the outer the element bg. This I

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:30:07 +0300 Came this utterance formulated by Jon Wickström to my mailbox: Hi, I'm trying to style a horizontal menu with double borders on the active LI menu item. There is some use of nested floating, as I want to use blocks for the LI to get them an even width. IE

Re: [css-d] [OT] EMs vs. PERCENTs

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:03:15 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Kenny Leu to my mailbox: D'oh! I should've read that link above before posting... To redeem myself: EM: - always relative to font size - fonts affect absolute widths of things set with EM! (e.g. could cause horizontal

Re: [css-d] [OT] EMs vs. PERCENTs

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:28:08 + (GMT) Came this utterance formulated by Bobby Jack to my mailbox: --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Michael Stevens bigm...@bigmikes.org wrote: So, is it uncommon, or bad practice, to use both in this situation? {height: 7.2em; width: 20%;} More and more, I

Re: [css-d] EMs vs. PERCENTs

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Adams
Ignoring later posts and replying inline. On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:52:22 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Theophan Dort to my mailbox: i generally supply a fixed width on the wrapper div, in a seperate style sheet which works for 800px screens How do you serve different CSS to

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:19:42 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Felix Miata to my mailbox: On 2009/03/16 14:41 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: Felix Miata wrote: I haven't figured out where Vrinda came from, other than it's a M$ font NAICT originally from mid-2004.

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:42:06 -1000 Came this utterance formulated by david to my mailbox: Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Michael Stevens wrote: Calibri I have but do not have installed all the time and use it maybe a couple times a month. And I've never heard of Vrinda. I picked up Vrinda

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:12:39 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Gunlaug Sørtun to my mailbox: Ib Jensen wrote: That means roughly, that a developer should have at least three screens with different resolutions and X number of browsers installed, on different systems, to in fact

Re: [css-d] [OT] Opera causing images...

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:54:38 -0500 Came this utterance formulated by David McGlone to my mailbox: [snip] Thank you Georg, You hard coded every image, but I stuck with the php. :-) I wasn't about to hard code every picture for that page because, there could be hundreds more in the future. LOL

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

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:58:25 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Ryan Little @ Gusto to my mailbox: Not really sure how relevant browser statistic are regarding the practical application of CSS. Nevertheless, there was a very long thread last month, on somewhat related matters,

Re: [css-d] can apply style inline but not in style sheet

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:40:56 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Angela French to my mailbox: Angela French wrote: Benjamin - I am trying your approach to just style my h2 with a background color. It is definitely get there, but it makes the height of the color block too tall,

Re: [css-d] IE 6 strikes again .....

2008-11-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:07:03 -0800 Came this utterance fomulated by Ambient Glow to my mailbox: I had a number of CSS issues with IE on this draft page, but, thanks to Gunlaug's help, most of them are worked out. The page is displaying fine for in IE7, but client says it is splitting in two

Re: [css-d] http://validator.w3.org can not validate a page

2008-11-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:23:39 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Paul Jung to my mailbox: Hello there, I used http://validator.w3.org to check a page: http://www.europeeurope.net/index.php but it returned with such erroe: Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on

Re: [css-d] Centre an image

2008-11-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:08:50 + Came this utterance fomulated by Peter Bradley to my mailbox: Ysgrifennodd Estelle Weyl: Give the parent a width of 100%, then give the image a display of block and margin auto. Doesn't seem to work for me. But adding 'text-align: center to the

Re: [css-d] Default % values - newbie question.

2008-11-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:44:08 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Gunlaug Sørtun to my mailbox: [snip] Line-height defaults differ slightly, so it often makes sense to level them with a mid-range value that makes reading easy, and that helps with styling of other in-text elements we may

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of scroll bar?

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:01:19 -0600 Came this utterance fomulated by Peter Hyde-Smith to my mailbox: [snip] IMO, you've got a ton of CSS; maybe want to more distinctly separate basic layout CSS from fiddley-bits. Also, recommend setting font-size in % instead of fixed pixels, for browser

Re: [css-d] The 1 px terror - Help.

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:36:46 + Came this utterance fomulated by MEM to my mailbox: Gunlaug Sørtun Wrote: When you don't declare font-size and/or line-height, all browsers will use their own default values. I see... so it's default BUT we have to give him same values so he can'tdefault

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of scroll bar?

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:31 -0600 Came this utterance fomulated by Peter Hyde-Smith to my mailbox: - Original Message - From: Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] how to get rid of scroll

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:53:15 -0700 Came this utterance fomulated by liketo findoutwhy to my mailbox: to simply add two quote images around some text. seems quite simple at first but turns out all the obvious solutions are not as desirable as a perfect solution: please see

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:32:45 +0900 Came this utterance fomulated by Philippe Wittenbergh to my mailbox: Thanks for your worthwhile reply. On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Michael Adams wrote: I have grown so fond of this technique that i have thought of extending both it and @media

[css-d] Apologies - OT

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
Sorry folks, just read the Off Topic page David Laakso referred Hedley Finger to and saw the following. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic * Some topics are off-topic for css-d, for example:- * mark-up questions * the future direction of CSS * comments on and

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:52:43 +1300 Came this utterance fomulated by Michael Adams to my mailbox: [snip] Sorry folks, just read the Off Topic page David Laakso referred Hedley Finger to and saw the following. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic * Some topics are off-topic

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:46:10 +0200 Came this utterance fomulated by Ingo Chao to my mailbox: Thanks for your useful reply The debate about hacking is mostly about hacking IE lte 7. We have sufficient methods to hack IE, though. Because of its market share, we have the knowledge about the

[css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Adams
I am currently using the @import browser hack for IE that i first read about here: http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/10/ie-import-hack I have grown so fond of this technique that i have thought of extending both it and @media in a new direction. If browsers were seen as a type of media you could

Re: [css-d] block box alignment

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:31:31 +0800 Came this utterance fomulated by ray to my mailbox: Hi, If I set a width for a block box within a containing block, for example 30%, the block box will be aligned with the left edge of the containing block. Is it possible to align it with the right edge of

Re: [css-d] Safari Page Break below header

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:46:36 +1200 Karl Hardisty increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: Does anyone else have the page break below the header, and dance from left to right in Safari when reloading? Something I've not seen

Re: [css-d] [Slightly OT] Font sizes

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:13:45 -0400 Felix Miata increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: On 2008/09/12 08:41 (GMT+1200) Michael Adams composed: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:12:01 -0400 David Laakso increased personal carbon footprint

Re: [css-d] [Slightly OT] Font sizes

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:12:01 -0400 David Laakso increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: Michael Adams wrote: Does anyone have a good article, and/or a reference to WCAG, that i can use to support the idea that default text size

Re: [css-d] [Slightly OT] Font sizes

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:12:01 -0400 David Laakso increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: Michael Adams wrote: Does anyone have a good article, and/or a reference to WCAG, that i can use to support the idea that default text size

[css-d] [Slightly OT] Font sizes

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Adams
Does anyone have a good article, and/or a reference to WCAG, that i can use to support the idea that default text size should not be less than the browser default. An article that at the same time discusses font units would be acceptable but less desirable. This is to present to artists, for

Re: [css-d] Lightweight HTTP server for beginner's http://localhost/ ?

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:58:49 -0400 Jerod Venema increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words: I'd also recommend checking out some from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_web_servers Lighty http://www.lighttpd.net/ and nginx

[css-d] layout robustness

2008-08-09 Thread Michael Adams
Using negative margins and fluid layout in a CMS template and just wondering how others handle robustness issues. If one of the authors places a large image in content which looks good on their browser, but it is to big for 800x600 how do you handle the overflow. At present if i use overflow:

Re: [css-d] layout robustness

2008-08-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:34:48 -0400 David Laakso wrote: Michael Adams wrote: Using negative margins and fluid layout in a CMS template and just wondering how others handle robustness issues. If one of the authors places a large image in content which looks good on their browser

Re: [css-d] layout robustness

2008-08-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:26:34 -0700 Thierry Koblentz wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Michael Adams Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 12:28 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] layout robustness

Re: [css-d] Site check please...

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Raven Gildea wrote: Hi all, May I request a site check please? It all looks okay on my own Mac and PC browsers, but I'd like to hear of any weirdness you might see that I don't: http://www.sweetlorrainebakeshop.com/ Thanks very much!

Re: [css-d] Abstracting CSS from HTML for Reusable UI Components

2008-05-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 03 May 2008 15:01:39 -0400 Michael B Allen wrote: Hi, I'm exploring the idea of using modules of code to emitting reusable HTML UI elements like postal addresses, login forms, linked images and in turn more sophisticated elements such as invoices, forum posts, etc. Because these

Re: [css-d] Abstracting CSS from HTML for Reusable UI Components

2008-05-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 04 May 2008 12:48:57 +1200 Michael Adams wrote: Errata inline On Sat, 03 May 2008 15:01:39 -0400 Michael B Allen wrote: Hi, I'm exploring the idea of using modules of code to emitting reusable HTML UI elements like postal addresses, login forms, linked images and in turn

Re: [css-d] Abstracting CSS from HTML for Reusable UI Components

2008-05-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 03 May 2008 21:07:53 -0400 Michael B Allen wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the same code is much cleaner without the table Ahh, I knew that was coming. I've tried creating forms without tables but I could never get the data

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

2008-04-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:27:20 +0200 Manfred Staudinger wrote: On 15/04/2008, Bill Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use this syntax to target all NON-MSIE browsers: !--[if !IE] -- style type=text/css@import url(css/fix/non_msie.css);/style !-- ![endif]-- Thats definitely an

Re: [css-d] Font Sizes

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:43:14 -0500 Alan Gutierrez wrote: I'm noticing that when I specify font sizes using em, they are slightly smaller in Firefox than in Safari. This becomes a problem when the font sizes get smaller. In Safari they are the right size, but in Firefox they are almost

Re: [css-d] Help with the C in CSS

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:21:26 +0200 Ingo Chao wrote: Michael Adams wrote: ... Then you have four factors involved which should be taken into account in the following order: weight, origin, specificity, sort order. But you didn't ask about them CSS 2.1:6.4.1 -4 says: if two

Re: [css-d] Most popular fonts for browsers

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:09:51 +0200 Cristian Palmas wrote: Hi All, I'm creating a CSS layout for my personal website, divided into six subdomains, that each has its own layout. In literature section I want to use a banner with a particular typeface that reminds the act of writing (Mistral,

Re: [css-d] IE bug with background images on multi-line inline links

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Adi Palazova wrote: I know that many people don_t like justified text on web sites. I will be very grateful for more opinions about this. It spoils readability. If you are reading late at night and read the same line of text three times you know you are

Re: [css-d] IE bug with background images on multi-line inline links

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:20:55 +1200 Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Adi Palazova wrote: I know that many people don_t like justified text on web sites. I will be very grateful for more opinions about this. It spoils readability. If you are reading late

Re: [css-d] Help with the C in CSS

2008-04-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:13:52 -0700 John wrote: I have been using CSS for a couple years now, but most of what I've done is emulate code I've seen and bang it into the form I need it to be. Any suggestions on a spot on line with a good explanation of the cascading relationship(s)? A

Re: [css-d] Bullet list without paragraph break

2008-04-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:33:49 +0100 Andrew Doades wrote: remove the ul from start and end! This will give you just the bullet points! [snip] But will not be valid code. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342

Re: [css-d] hr / styling

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:49:26 +0100 Alan K Baker wrote: [snip] Without me looking up specifications, if color has no meaning, then how do you propose to change the color of a horizontal rule? It is not a border, neither is it a background, so how else would you style its color

Re: [css-d] header not at the top

2008-03-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:41:08 +0100 martin f krafft wrote: also sprach David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.03.22.2121 +0100]: Pardon me if I am being obtuse, but why would you want to place the header anywhere other than at the head of the document? Well, isn't it still the case that

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:49:17 -0400 David Laakso wrote: Phoebe Taylor wrote: re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ Sure, I'd be up for it. :) Just let me know what the challenge is... Phoebe OK. Some random CSS suggestions. First off, you have done

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:50:06 + Alex Robinson wrote: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not

[css-d] [OT] IE8 Beta released to developers.

2008-03-06 Thread Michael Adams
Doesn't look very complete yet. And they have gone to best compliance is standard, you wont have to put the Meta tag in to get standards compliance. Beware the urls will probably wrap. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-for-developers-now-available.aspx

Re: [css-d] Quickly Removing Formatting from an Element

2008-03-04 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:10:57 -0600 Jack Timmons wrote: Jukka, I had a spelling error in borders; it is incorrect, but is just an example. And simply put, she wanted an easy method for saying I don't want this button to have any of the previous global formatting applied to it. Using

Re: [css-d] Pre-Loaders in CSS

2008-02-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:57:50 -0500 Christopher wrote: Anyone know in CSS if you can do a pre-loader effect ? Also can you do transitions as done by MooTools ? in CSS and if not does anyone know how you blend in MooTools into your HTML ? Not really AFAIK, but there are a couple of hacks i

Re: [css-d] give a solution for font family and size

2008-02-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:29:26 -1000 david wrote: Rob Emenecker wrote: No, it is not correct at all. There is no such requirement anywhere. Being correct does not mean there must exist a requirement, as your argument implies. If there is no requirement one way or the other, then having

Re: [css-d] Request for Comments on this CSS Stylesheet Approach

2008-02-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:36:11 -0600 Jake Churchill wrote: I'd set an ID in the body tag for each individual page and divide up your CSS based on that. body id=index, body id=common, etc. Then you've got #index ... { } #common ... { } I do a lot of work with a product called

Re: [css-d] IE vs FF Textarea Font Size Inconsistent

2008-02-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:38:14 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: On 2008/02/10 11:35 (GMT+1300) Michael Adams apparently typed: In addition Microsoft released the Core font set to the public and though discontinued by Microsoft free distribution was allowed under the original licence. These font

Re: [css-d] IE vs FF Textarea Font Size Inconsistent

2008-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:49:27 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: On 2008/02/08 23:49 (GMT+1300) Michael Adams apparently typed: If you add helvetica to that font family that caters to most Mac and Linux users as well. font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif Helvetica, while very nice

Re: [css-d] IE vs FF Textarea Font Size Inconsistent

2008-02-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:06:56 +0100 Mihai M__nu wrote: Hi Michael, Your problem is typographic. The font used for text area is smaller than the font used for inputs (default fonts are sans-serif for input select, and fixed for text area - on Linux those fonts are configured system

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

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:50:56 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Is there a way to start an ordered list at anything other than 1? I'm having a problem with QA type of page that numbers the questions, but it also needs some blubs between the questions. Kind of like below: ol

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

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:44:01 -0500 Tim White wrote: On Feb 7, 2008 7:57 PM, Jim Nannery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So much for going off list. *doh* wrong button. Mea culpa. No, you replied to my post. And to prevent replies off list (This email address is one way = no spam) i

Re: [css-d] IE vs FF Textarea Font Size Inconsistent

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:43:00 -0500 Michael B Allen wrote: The font size in textarea elements on Firefox (on Linux at least) is about 70% the size of other input and select elements in the same form whereas in IE the font size is roughly the same across all form elements. I suspect this has

Re: [css-d] Using CSS to control PDF for print

2008-02-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:46:35 +1100 Chang Huang wrote: Hi all, I've been reading about how to use CSS to control the layout of a web for print, I wonder is there's a optimum way to style a web-generated PDF for print. I've been googling it for a while but with no success. Can anyone point

Re: [css-d] Noob with float/div problems

2008-02-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:11:15 -0800 Ken Davies wrote: Hello and thanks for letting me join your group, although it's very intimidating for a novice.I am definitely not a hand coder, but I sure have changed a lot of code by hand. I built a table oriented image heavy website no CSS. I struggle

Re: [css-d] XHTML 1.0 Transitional and IE6

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:19:37 +0100 Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Michael Adams wrote: Using a two column negative margin layout, only IE5, IE5.5 and IE6 all show the sidebar below the main content, though everything looks offset correctly in the x direction. First time i've tried working

Re: [css-d] a couple of questions: dif style sheets and min height??

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:47:13 + Rob freeman wrote: Hello again everyone.. Just a couple of questions... I have built a little site which uses png's. These images sit slightly off the wrapper div. The image have a drop shadow which all works in the latest browsers. Now, if I want to

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