[css-d] Browser Load order

2006-06-30 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Does anyone know what the load order for a browser is? 1 HTML 2 CSS 3 IMAGES 4 JS 5 ??? Thanks, Nick --- Nick Morgan | Web Developer | New City Media P: 540.552.1320 x204 F: 540.552.5493 C: 540.921.7835 __

Re: [css-d] dilemma

2006-06-22 Thread Nicholas Morgan
The special characters are from characters in your code that need to be converted to html entities. Like say " needs to be “ I get that a lot when I cut and past content from word into TextMate. If your clients are doing that then start there for the special characters. What are you tryin

Re: [css-d] Is this unsolvable?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Thx for pointing that out. yeah probably need to set the min-height of the main-nav. But I think I am going to start from square one and refactor the code. I've being tweaking it too much getting it to work right, and its a little heavy. Anyways thanks for the help fellas. Nick On Jun 2

Re: [css-d] Is this unsolvable?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Thx Ingo. That was indeed the problem. I couldn't get away with parent nodes not having layout so I went for the positioning route. Works all except for shadows on the right and left of the page-area. Oh well.. can't seem to win that battle. Works in the same in every browser just missing

Re: [css-d] Is this unsolvable?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Thanks for your reply Ian. Here is a link to what I am talking about http://rochoet.newcitymedia.com/layout_behavior.gif I drew it out. All I want is for the Navigation which is static and the content area which is floated to act independently of each other. Since the page wrapper contains

[css-d] Is this unsolvable?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicholas Morgan
I even considered, since I could seem to find a div solution, a tabular solution *oh no this guy is sick in the head* but even the test cases I run on that are not favorable in IE. The idea is that the background expands and contracts bases on the nav's height. Since the float is supposed t

[css-d] float problem... eh

2006-06-20 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Well I was trying to be slick using floats the way they were meant to be used and well of course IE doesn't cooperate. I tried setting the heights of the containing wrappers to 1% for IE only and setting the line height. Any other suggestions? Here is the url for the page: http://rochoet.new

Re: [css-d] Fonts

2006-05-31 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Thanks for your post Richard. I get what you are saying about font licenses and I fully understand. The point of having a font accessible by the web would be that it wouldn't have to be installed natively on the machine ( gets rid of that performance hit) and of course you can't download

Re: [css-d] Fonts

2006-05-28 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Sorry for the delay in this post, I'm sure you thought I gave up but Chris thanks for your post but here's my counter. >If you create a movie that only works on 16x9 or needs colour you >cannot stop people from watching it on a TV in 4x3 or black and white. Does this mean that we don't

Re: [css-d] Fonts

2006-05-22 Thread Nicholas Morgan
mages with > custom fonts. This would be a real hack. -Bob > > Nicholas Morgan wrote: >> David, >> >> That's great and all but you didn't answer my question. To me this >> is the same problem that we had without CSS. We used tables and >> other

Re: [css-d] Fonts

2006-05-21 Thread Nicholas Morgan
s to make arial look different but in the end it is still arial. Nick On May 21, 2006, at 2:25 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Nicholas Morgan wrote: >> Alright. >> >> Issue: >> No way for use to use more than non-standard fonts. >> > The current state of CSS, an

[css-d] Fonts

2006-05-21 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Alright. Issue: No way for use to use more than non-standard fonts. "Solutions": Image replacement, auto generate them with scripting, flash.. ewww... None of these are solutions. They are all work-arounds for the problem. I have read through css 2 standard and the font parts of css 3 and t