No, my widths seem to add up properly.

The kludge-y fix might be:

Set a fixed paragraph width on these pages, say, 10px narrower than it
should be.

Set overflow to "visible"

That's a really ugly hack, though.

-Bob

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Bob Passaro
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks, Philippe. I'm still getting it with Verdana and Times. At first I
> didn't notice any, though, and I thought, that's it! Then I would notice
> one. It's a bit like trying to prove there's no such thing as UFOs. Just
> because you don't see one at the moment, doesn't mean there not out there.
>
> I had hopes for the hyphenation idea, but couldn't get that to help.
>
> It just occurs to me to me now check go back and check all the widths.
> Since this is a fixed width site that went through several incarnations, I
> wonder if I set any fixed px widths for various divs that now aren't adding
> up properly.
>
> Thanks, everyone, for thoughts on this.
>
> -Bob
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2012, at 8:32 AM, David Hucklesby wrote:
>>
>> > Re: <http://nwbooklovers.org/2012/06/01/nw-book-lovers-chapter-two/>
>> >
>> > Me too! I'm as perplexed as you.
>> >
>> > Removing the float declaration from the image has no effect this end in
>> > Safari. It's as if the negative margin somehow pulls the whole first
>> > line with it, which then re-flows as a longer line length. As Tim noted,
>> > the overflow is hidden - but of course there should be no overflow! :\
>> >
>> > As you say, only happening in Webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari).
>> > Checked in IE 7 and 8 on Win xp, and Chrome, Safari, and Firefox in
>> > Windows and on Mac OS X "Lion".
>> >
>> > I wish I had a solution for you. :(
>>
>> I have no real clue either; the negative margin somehow breaks the normal
>> flow of text as David notes.
>> But if I change the font used for the text (from Georgia to 'something
>> else' [*]), then the clipping does not occur (tested on both OSX Lion and
>> Snow Leopard) - everything flows correctly over the whole page.
>>
>> Come to think of it, and I have't tested, but it _might_ help resolve the
>> problem: enable hyphenation for webkit, gecko browsers:
>>
>> e.g.
>> p { -webkit-hyphens: auto; -gecko-hyphens: auto; }
>>
>>  [*] tried 10 different  commonly installed fonts, at different
>> font-sizes through the Webkit inspector
>>
>> Philippe
>> --
>> Philippe Wittenbergh
>> http://l-c-n.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
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