Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/02/07 20:49 (GMT-0500) Reese composed: > I don't see what the > difference would be at different dpi values, which was the brunt of > the argument against the practice in the links Felix posted. You apparently missed the main point of http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Clagnut/bbcnSS.html entirely. I

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread David Laakso
Reese wrote: > On 07-Feb-10 20:58, David Laakso wrote: > > >> For starters neither of the above is valid CSS. >> > > Right, I got in a hurry when stripping out unrelated stuph. > How about this? > > * {font-size: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0;} > body {font: 0.84em/1.333 Arial, sans-serif;} >

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Reese
On 07-Feb-10 20:58, David Laakso wrote: > > For starters neither of the above is valid CSS. Right, I got in a hurry when stripping out unrelated stuph. How about this? * {font-size: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0;} body {font: 0.84em/1.333 Arial, sans-serif;} * {font-size: 84%; padding: 0; margin

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread David Laakso
Reese wrote: > On 07-Feb-10 20:31, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > > >>> I'm at a bit of a loss, to see the difference between >>> >>> * {font-size: 100%;} >>> body {font: 0.84em;} >>> >>> and >>> >>> * {font-size: 84%;} >>> body {font: 1em;} >>> >> I'm at a bit of a loss to see why you would

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Reese
On 07-Feb-10 20:31, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >> I'm at a bit of a loss, to see the difference between >> >> * {font-size: 100%;} >> body {font: 0.84em;} >> >> and >> >> * {font-size: 84%;} >> body {font: 1em;} > > I'm at a bit of a loss to see why you would consider using either of them. I'm no

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Reese wrote: > On 07-Feb-10 03:50, Felix Miata wrote: > > On 2010/02/07 01:09 (GMT-0500) Kym Costanzo composed: > > > >> Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I > >> am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over >

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Reese
On 07-Feb-10 03:50, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/02/07 01:09 (GMT-0500) Kym Costanzo composed: > >> Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I >> am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over and >> over that the "right" way to size fonts

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/02/07 03:50 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata composed: > Resolution is irrelevant to anything unless right along with it is known the > size of the display. Combined they result is what is variously called PPI or > DPI, which is a measure of screen pixel density. The higher the DPI, the more > pixel

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/02/07 01:09 (GMT-0500) Kym Costanzo composed: > Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I > am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over and > over that the "right" way to size fonts is to set the page font size to > 62.5% and th

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Kym Costanzo
> -Original Message- > From: Chris F.A. Johnson [mailto:ch...@cfajohnson.com] >There were 12 errors at validator.w3.org. > I conceded that - when I posted my initial question, I ~did~ state there were validation errors. But if you'd looked at all 12 of them, every one of them was rela

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-07 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Kym Costanzo wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Kym Costanzo wrote: > Could you be more specific about the HTML errors? I did validate the HTML, > but the only errors I got were regarding the drop-down menu that I am asking > for help with. I can't fix those, as I don't know what

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Kym Costanzo wrote: > >>> >>> Here's the site: http://americandancewheels.webscapersites.com/ >>> > > > > As I learned CSS, I read over and > over that the "right" way to size fonts is to set the page font size to > 62.5% and then increase using ems. > Kym > > > So be it. On th

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 2/6/2010 10:09 PM, Kym Costanzo wrote: >Could you be more specific about the HTML errors? I did validate the HTML, >but the only errors I got were regarding the drop-down menu that I am asking >for help with. I can't fix those, as I don't know what I can do differently >with that menu. The valid

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Kym Costanzo wrote: > I've got a train wreck in IE6, so bad that my attempts to fix this are only > making it worse. The site is great in IE7, IE8, Chrome, FF3. I really wish > IE6 would just die already. > > > > > Here's the site: http://americandancewheels.webscapersites.com/ > > > > Kym > >

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread Kym Costanzo
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Kym Costanzo wrote: > > > I've got a train wreck in IE6, so bad that my attempts to fix this are only > > making it worse. The site is great in IE7, IE8, Chrome, FF3. I really wish > > IE6 would just die already. > > > > > > > > Here's the site: http://americandancewheels.web

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Kym Costanzo wrote: > I've got a train wreck in IE6, so bad that my attempts to fix this are only > making it worse. The site is great in IE7, IE8, Chrome, FF3. I really wish > IE6 would just die already. > > > > I know some of the issues are stemming from the CSS navigati

[css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread Kym Costanzo
I've got a train wreck in IE6, so bad that my attempts to fix this are only making it worse. The site is great in IE7, IE8, Chrome, FF3. I really wish IE6 would just die already. I know some of the issues are stemming from the CSS navigation menu I got from a CSS menu site (haven't been able t