Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-22 Thread John Guchemand
Hello all, It is a pleasure to be a newcomer to this group. It appears to be a great (live) resource for web designers/developers, and I am so glad that I found out about this. Well, nice to meet you. OK, on with my question. In IE6 the text on this page (http://www.csszengarden.com)

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-22 Thread John Guchemand
Thank you all for your help. Next time, I will start a new thread. Cheers, John __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by

RE: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-22 Thread CJ Larson
FireFox gives the user the ability to resize text regardless of what the designer specified as units in their CSS code. IE, on the other hand, doesn't resize the text if the CSS specifies the font in px/pt, which is what the default template for zengarden does: body { font: 9pt/17pt georgia; }

RE: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-22 Thread Oliver Hodgson
-Original Message- From: Oliver Hodgson This is because Internet Explorer cannot resize text whose size is set in pixels, but can size text set in other measurement details. Huh? Read that as other units of measurement. I'm up to my eyeballs in decongestant, so thinking isn't my

RE: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-21 Thread Shane Porter
Hi there Joanne, Does anyone have any experience with either of these or can you suggest another book/site to learn about designing sites without tables? I'm sure you'll get a good number of replies for this one :) Look out for books by Eric Meyer: Eric Meyer on CSS:

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-21 Thread Tim Zappe
Joanne- My experience with Sitepoint is that I bought and read DHTML Utopia. I don't recomend that book because it did not focus on XHTML, but rather HTML 4.0which is something I'd rather not write in. I recomend that you focus on learning XHTML in conjugction with CSS. I don't know how HTML

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-21 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:54:21PM -0600, Tim Zappe wrote: My experience with Sitepoint is that I bought and read DHTML Utopia. I don't recomend that book because it did not focus on XHTML, but rather HTML 4.0which is something I'd rather not write in. Um ... the two are virtually identical.

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

2005-09-21 Thread David Laakso
Tim Zappe wrote: Joanne- My experience with Sitepoint is that I bought and read DHTML Utopia. I don't recomend that book because it did not focus on XHTML, but rather HTML 4.0which is something I'd rather not write in. I recomend that you focus on learning XHTML in conjugction with CSS. What