Re: [css-d] Firefox & the new pixel density ??

2013-07-09 Thread Rob Crowther
On 09/07/2013 02:20, Janet Lynn Ford wrote: 1. Is there a way to target this with media queries (I read that now one can target dpi, but I am curious if any one is doing so, what the problems and/or negative effects of doing so will be. I think this is part of the response to the issue that med

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-08-02 Thread Rob Crowther
On 02/08/12 20:50, Philip TAYLOR wrote: How things are defined the HTML 5 Draft specification is relevant only to HTML 5; since we are discussing documents that specify a DTD in their DOCTYPE directive, that clearly rules out documents coded to the HTML 5 Draft specification. No, it defines ho

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-08-02 Thread Rob Crowther
On 02/08/12 19:40, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Exactly as you meant it in your earlier message : I meant it as defined in the HTML5 specification. You're apparently disallowing that, so I wanted to know what your definition was. The specification for the parsing process for HTML 4.01 is directly

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-08-02 Thread Rob Crowther
On 02/08/12 18:49, Philip TAYLOR wrote: that if a page validates against the DTD given in the DOCTYPE directive, then it is more likely to be parsed and rendered correctly than if it does not. OK, then define "parsed and rendered correctly". Or, put another way: where is the parsing process f

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-08-02 Thread Rob Crowther
On 02/08/2012 17:02, Philip TAYLOR wrote: I think that is an over-simplification, and one that is misleading if it gets into the wrong hands. Not really, otherwise tricks like having a DOCTYPE without a DTD wouldn't work. The problem is that different browsers (or even different versions o

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-08-02 Thread Rob Crowther
On 02/08/2012 04:39, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: First is that while browsers may not actually use the referenced DTD (the http... clause), they do parse the HTML based on the DOCTYPE html PUBLIC... clause and treat the HTML differently based on what you declare. No, they don't. It is used purel

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-08-02 Thread Rob Crowther
On 02/08/2012 10:31, Hakan Kirkan wrote: Using breaks Canvas in IE8 IE8 doesn't support canvas. Rob __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-d

Re: [css-d] android & blackberry emulators

2012-07-04 Thread Rob Crowther
On 04/07/2012 03:25, David Laakso wrote:> I've no idea about that site, but the official Android SDK includes an > > If accuracy is your bag in the end you'll want to break down and > purchase a mobile device and save the receipt for your business > accountant. I think in the end you'll want s

Re: [css-d] android & blackberry emulators

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Crowther
On 03/07/12 13:20, Sandy wrote: http://android-emulator.org/ is this a reasonably accurate emulator? I've no idea about that site, but the official Android SDK includes an emulator: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/emulator.html Rob ___

Re: [css-d] Will on-page css override same selector in external style sheet?

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Crowther
On 20/03/11 20:29, Keith Purtell wrote: Or do I need to instead have my conditional comment be an "if or" that calls up the main style sheet for the majority of visitors and a variant of the main style sheet with the alternate paragraph style? If the selectors are the same, the last rule wins:

Re: [css-d] @fontface

2011-01-06 Thread Rob Crowther
On 06/01/11 14:44, David Laakso wrote Drag the page to a 400px window and the styles will "kick-in." ~d What happens if you take the @font-face rule out of the media query? I wonder if Gecko doesn't like that being nested? Rob _

Re: [css-d] @fontface

2011-01-06 Thread Rob Crowther
Chetan Crasta wrote: On my computer (ubuntu), there was absolutely no styling of any element on the page. I get the same thing, no styles: Windows XP + Firefox 4. Rob __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.cs

Re: [css-d] Vendor prefixes and validation

2010-12-21 Thread Rob Crowther
Alan Gresley wrote: I should add that the CSS WG current work page is out of date often. The current work with the latest drafts are found here. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/ It's not the release of a new editor's draft that's significant, it's the spec moving to Candidate Recommendation which sho

Re: [css-d] Vendor prefixes and validation

2010-12-20 Thread Rob Crowther
On 21/12/10 00:07, Alan Gresley wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: Currently IE9 beta supports most of CSS3 without any vender prefixes. All of which do no need a -ms- prefix. That's 16 properties, all in one spec. Even if you me

Re: [css-d] Vendor prefixes and validation

2010-12-20 Thread Rob Crowther
G.Sørtun wrote: > > So if no vendor is "foolish" enough to implement them we won't get > those W3C CSS standards anywhere. > I'm not suggesting they'd be foolish to implement them at all, I'm saying they'd be foolish to implement them without vendor prefixes. Rob _

Re: [css-d] Vendor prefixes and validation

2010-12-20 Thread Rob Crowther
Alan Gresley wrote: On 21/12/2010 1:10 AM, "G.Sørtun" wrote: Currently IE9 beta supports most of CSS3 without any vender prefixes. No it doesn't and, since only two of the CSS3 specs are currently even at PR state, let alone CR, it would be foolish of them to do so. Rob __

Re: [css-d] CSS method for larger "lead-in" text?

2010-11-24 Thread Rob Crowther
On 24/11/10 17:05, Rory Bernstein wrote: Is there a way to use CSS to make the first X words of a paragraph be larger? Not really, the closest thing to it is the :first-line pseudo element, but that selects everything to the end of the line, not a particular number of words. http://www.w3.or

Re: [css-d] Border radius for nested image: works in chrome but not firefox

2010-10-10 Thread Rob Crowther
On 10/10/10 12:36, Karl Bedingfield wrote: I am creating a logo to work with chrome and firefox browsers but am running into a little problem with firefox. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459144 Fixed in Firefox 4. If you can make the image a background instead of inline then it

Re: [css-d] Overlay you can click through

2010-10-08 Thread Rob Crowther
On 08/10/10 18:08, Chris Hardie wrote: > Can anyone think about how to get the result I want? > You could try this: http://www.vinylfox.com/forwarding-mouse-events-through-layers/ If you don't have to support IE then you can also achieve the same thing with a CSS property: https://developer.m

Re: [css-d] -moz-box-shadow

2010-01-25 Thread Rob Crowther
Tim Climis wrote: > I've got a question about box-shadow. If you have a shadow on an element with > 100% width (an unfloated div, say), and give it a box-shadow, in firefox > (with > -moz-box-shadow) you get horizontal scroll, If you offset the x shadow against the blur then you get rid of the

Re: [css-d] rounded image corners

2009-09-09 Thread Rob Crowther
Daniel Gerep wrote: > My client will upload images and I'd like to put rounded corners on it...is > there a way to do so? > Using CSS you would use the border-radius property, currently implemented as -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius in Firefox and Safari/Chrome respectively but it's

Re: [css-d] RFC: printing backgrounds by default

2007-08-09 Thread Rob Crowther
Jason Crosse wrote: > What I have done in the past is to have a print stylesheet to make > printed text darker than its on-screen equivalent. This relies on > the backgrounds not printing. > I've also done this in the past - assumed the background wouldn't print, but since it's an option in the br

Re: [css-d] printing background images

2007-08-01 Thread Rob Crowther
Paul Seale wrote: > Ive ran into a slight problem regarding printing content (text) with the > background showing up. Is it possible to do so, It's a browser configuration - in Firefox: File -> Page Setup... I'm sure there used to be a similar option in IE6 but I can't find it in IE7. > or do

Re: [css-d] IE Print Defect

2007-02-22 Thread Rob Crowther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone noticed IE not printing out all the text from a web page > before? It is doing that to me now. Most of the words are there but > a few that should be at the end of a line before it wraps to the > next line have disappeared. > I've seen it when the text was i

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed

2007-02-21 Thread Rob Crowther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Problems: > Firefox: > 1. The content (beginning with the "item_title" "Saturday Long Run") > is not at the top of its div. It should be even with the top of the > "Coach's Tip" box. As jeffrey said, you have a white h2 element on a white background forcing ever

Re: [css-d] Weird IE7 Problem

2007-01-09 Thread Rob Crowther
Ingo Chao wrote: > > Again, a rule of thumb is: whenever a relatively positioned block has to > contain a layout-block, be sure that the relatively positioned block has > layout, or funny things like disappearance will happen. > It's strange that it's triggered by an event in the browser chrome r

[css-d] Weird IE7 Problem

2007-01-09 Thread Rob Crowther
Hi I'm working on the following page (sorry for long URL): http://www.serviceworksglobal.com/demo/pages/case_studies_testimonials/computacenter.html I've encountered a weird problem with IE7. If I right click on one of the images and select 'Properties' then the content gets cut off just belo