If I end up resorting to this -- at least temporarily, while I figure out a better solution -- is there a way I can specify that it be in effect only on Chrome and Safari?
-Bob On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Bob Passaro <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> css-discuss [[email protected]] >>> http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d >>> List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >>> List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html >>> Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ >>> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
