[css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Keith Purtell
I've removed most of the ugly blankness of my splash page, but two technical problems remain. 1-The horizontal positioning of the navigation and the text/pic content only work on a 1024x768 screen. I set the first at 25 percent width and the second at 75 percent width thinking they would adapt to

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Chetan Crasta
I have made many changes to your code to fix the problems you mentioned, see: http://roughtech.com/t/tft.html . Also, make sure you check your code with the w3.org css validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ and html validator http://validator.w3.org/ Regards, Chetan Crasta

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread David Laakso
On 8/15/11 2:17 AM, Keith Purtell wrote: I've removed most of the ugly blankness of my splash page, but two technical problems remain. - Keith Purtell aside It was not ugly because it was blank-- it was just a little morbid and did not go with anything else in your site as you now have

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Keith Purtell wrote: I've removed most of the ugly blankness of my splash page, but two technical problems remain. ... http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/ Keith, do you have any idea why the T is so badly (over)kerned in CONTACT ? It is very tight in OTHER and AUTHORS, but just gets away

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
For those wondering how Keith is intended to know about what I am talking, there was a screenshot attachment that has quietly been jettisoned by the list server with no warning to replace it ... What Part 1.2 (--000605080503080102090309 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
15.8.2011 15:13, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/ Keith, do you have any idea why the T is so badly (over)kerned in CONTACT ? This is rather odd. It happens on Firefox 5 but not Internet Explorer 9. On Firefox, it happens even if I add *

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Keith Purtell
On 8/15/2011 7:13 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Keith Purtell wrote: I've removed most of the ugly blankness of my splash page, but two technical problems remain. ... http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/ Keith, do you have any idea why the T is so badly (over)kerned in

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Keith Purtell
On 8/15/2011 3:22 AM, Chetan Crasta wrote: I have made many changes to your code to fix the problems you mentioned, see: http://roughtech.com/t/tft.html . Also, make sure you check your code with the w3.org http://w3.org css validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ and html validator

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
16.8.2011 3:58, Keith Purtell wrote: I was under the impression that reasonable kerning was built into most typefaces. Well, most good typefaces at least. But web browsers haven't traditionally applied kerning. Firefox now applies some kerning in some situations. By default, it does so