Re: [css-d] PNG IE 6

2011-07-08 Thread T. R. Valentine
is still showing over 10% of browsers are IE6, probably related to the fact that over 50% of the OSes are WinXP and a lot of those people (1) don't know how to install a browser, and/or (2) don't run (for whatever reason) Windows Updates. And some of that over 10% is undoubtedly due

[css-d] Divitus?

2010-04-01 Thread T. R. Valentine
(the background adjusts to the amount of text lengthwise and widthwise, but is never shorter than a bit past the bookmark image). Any help/suggestions appreciated. -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and i

Re: [css-d] shorthand elements

2009-09-28 Thread T. R. Valentine
2009/9/28 Martin Möller : > I like the "TROUBLE" mnemonic =>  TRBL I like it! :-D Thanks -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don't care. 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy foo

[css-d] shorthand elements

2009-09-28 Thread T. R. Valentine
When using shorthand elements such as 'margin' or 'padding', the order is (IIRC) 2 values (top & bottom) (left & right) 4 values (top) (right) (bottom) (left) What about three values? Also, does anyone have a mnemonic to remember the order? -- T. R. Valentine Your

[css-d] Presentation vs content issue for interlinear text

2008-01-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
ately below (centring the text in every cell to maintain alignment). But this would make searching for phrases (in either language) impossible. Can anyone here with a more creative mind think of another means of presentation? -- T. R. Valentine Your friends will argue with you. Your enemies don&#

Re: [css-d] white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread T. R. Valentine
; For example: > > background-color: white; /* if used, my menu won't work in IE 6 */ > background-color: #FF; /* if used, my menu will work in IE 6 */ Will background-color:#FFF; work? -- T.

Re: [css-d] Web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe colours

2007-01-23 Thread T. R. Valentine
resources/colours/websmart1.htm (and other sites) Personally, I like it because it matches my (lazy?) preference for setting all colours with three characters only. -- T. R. Valentine Does YOUR browser pass the Acid2 test? http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html _

Re: [css-d] CSS Menu does not display in IE7beta2 // ALA Holy Grail fails in IE7b2

2006-02-06 Thread T. R. Valentine
s/holygrail that is supposed to be for IE6. I tried adding the fix, but it did not fix the problem. I went to http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_1.html with IE7b2 and found the left column is also missing. So at least there is consistency in the problem. I know there will be other probl

[css-d] CSS Menu does not display in IE7beta2

2006-02-06 Thread T. R. Valentine
Although still in early stages, I am stumped as to why the left-side menu is completely missing from the display in IE7beta2 (WinXPsp2). The menu displays fine in FF 1.5 and Opera 8. page: http://plano.lib.il.us/testing/new/test3.html Any one run into this problem or have an answer? -- T. R

Re: [css-d] Netscape not showing what it should

2005-11-26 Thread T. R. Valentine
to a web page. I shudder to think what lies underneath the rest of the site. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [css-d] Many requirements

2005-09-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
way? I'd also like to see suggestions that would eliminate the need for the span tag. The tag hasn't (AFAIK) been deprecated which seems to indicate an awareness of its necessity. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it

Re: [css-d] Site check: Onlinetools.org redesign

2005-09-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
pendantic, but in the About section, the third paragraph begins: 'Under no circumstances you are allowed to change...' -- I think you need to reverse the 'you' and the 'are'. :-) -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the p

Re: [css-d] Why doesn't this page work?

2005-09-23 Thread T. R. Valentine
rst makes it easy. Gradually add more functions. I would also suggest, don't even consider doing s and positioning until you are comfortable with styling with CSS. My 2 cents. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE

Re: [css-d] At what point does it become more beneficial to use CSS?

2005-09-16 Thread T. R. Valentine
y that significant? Sorry, but there are a LOT of people still using dial-up -- some happy to get 14.4 -- it is a mistake to *assume* everybody is broadband. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla,

[css-d] Absolutely position a div within a relatively positioned div?

2005-09-16 Thread T. R. Valentine
would make it possible? TIA. -- T. R. Valentine Use a decent browser: Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera (Avoid IE like the plague it is) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

Re: [css-d] site check

2005-08-09 Thread T. R. Valentine
, under Firefox 1.0.6/Win2k, no grey background appears. The grey-to-maroon colour change on hover works fine on both. hth -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason,

Re: [css-d] hacks in IE7 ?

2005-08-04 Thread T. R. Valentine
'd guess if we don't want to exclude a significant portion of users from our web pages, we will have to support IE5 for at least two more years and IE6 for at least four to five more years. (Trying to be realistic) Nick is right: don't throw away your IE hacks yet. -- T. R. Valentin

[css-d] UAs which allow user to select alternate style sheets?

2005-07-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
d settle for any kind of listing that includes the main browsers for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Any one know of something like that? -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse) __

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
y messing code, IMO. It just makes more sense to me to begin with the less buggy UAs. -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (or testing) (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). __ css-discuss [EM

Re: [css-d] conditional import to css?

2005-07-12 Thread T. R. Valentine
don't want the IE hacks default stylesheet (print) javascript (I was hoping to use the cascade to my advantage). Is this what you are suggesting? It didn't work. :-( -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). ___

[css-d] conditional import to css?

2005-07-12 Thread T. R. Valentine
, is there a better technique? TIA. -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [css-d] How to add Unicode chars with CSS 'content' property?

2005-07-08 Thread T. R. Valentine
o work - until I looked on a Mac! Use the **hex** code for css generated 'content'. For ’ you should use: {content: "\2019"; } hth -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). _

Re: [css-d] Footnotes

2005-07-08 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 08/07/05, Christian Heilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would you do the auto numbering in css2? css3, maybe, but css2? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#counter In Windoze, only Opera (AFAIK) supports counters. IE, Firefox, Mozilla do not. -- T. R. Valentine The on

Re: [css-d] CSS and Typography

2005-07-02 Thread T. R. Valentine
harder to locate with the eye. And the quotation marks sticking out into the margin area -- I have *never* seen that in the thousands of books, magazines, newspapers, etc. that I've read over more than a couple of decades! I wonder where he got his poop from? -- cause it stinks! IMO, CSS

Re: [css-d] [Printing problems with DL/DT/DD for numbered paragr aphs] rides again...

2005-06-28 Thread T. R. Valentine
t following the number with the left edge of the other lines. hth, T. R. Valentine __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/

Re: [css-d] Opera problems: background images, pure CSS menu

2005-06-26 Thread T. R. Valentine
bizarre bug! A thousand thanks to Bruno (and also to 'Holly 'n John' for finding the bug). The z-index did fix the problem. Thanks again. -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (stupidity is a reason, _not_ an excuse). ___

Re: [css-d] Opera problems: background images, pure CSS menu

2005-06-25 Thread T. R. Valentine
but I really want it in a fixed position which works fine in Firefox. It has me quite perplexed. A bug in Opera, perhaps? XHTML: http://plano.lib.il.us/testing/work.html (includes link to CSS file) CSS: http://plano.lib.il.us/testing/test.css -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is

[css-d] Opera problems: background images, pure CSS menu

2005-06-23 Thread T. R. Valentine
BOTH Firefox/Linux behaves as Firefox/Win; Opera/Linux behaves as Opera/Win. I haven't even begun to hack for IE. That's for later. I'd appreciate any help/suggestions/advice. -- T. R. Valentine The only excuse for using IE is ignorance (stu

[css-d] Re: Unclickable links in Safari

2005-06-15 Thread T. R. Valentine
t work in CAMINO, SAFARI or FIREFOX, > either. They do, however, actually work in OmniWeb and Internet Explorer > for Mac OS X. > > Odd...very odd. Yes, very odd: the links work in Firefox (w2k & linux), Mozilla (w2k) and IE6 (w2k); the links do not work

[css-d] Re: Firefox positioning bug

2005-06-11 Thread T. R, Valentine
> check out http://www.walmartfreenyc.com/new/test One of my pet peeves: a site that uses invalid characters (according to Unicode) and doesn't bother to make a charset declaration. Argh! T.R. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

[css-d] Re: Paste plain text to clean HTML

2005-06-10 Thread T. R, Valentine
On 6/10/05, Gustavo Caetano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since it may be an off topic, I apologize myself in precedence. > > The fact came up today as I was working on a writer's website. He sent me > many of his stuff, all in doc. > > So, I hade to copy and past the plain text and insert each