[css-d] Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Jackson Araújo
I was wondering, as i started learning my way through web development, if the habit i had of using the so-famous Adblock filters and addons, while surfing the web was something OK. I mean, some of you (hopefully us, in a while) might even have to design advertisement campaigns, etc. So having

Re: [css-d] Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Jackson Araújo wrote: I was wondering, as i started learning my way through web development, if the habit i had of using the so-famous Adblock filters and addons, while surfing the web was something OK. I mean, some of you (hopefully us, in a while) might even

Re: [css-d] Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I use mac mail and there is a warning along with this email. It says 'unable to verify message signature'. I have never seen this before. I don't like it, and it makes me a bit uneasy. Off topic. but my penny's worth. Pop ups are intrusive, so I have 'block pup up windows' turned on.

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 10:01 AM -0200 11/4/10, Jackson Araújo wrote: I was wondering, as i started learning my way through web development, if the habit i had of using the so-famous Adblock filters and addons, while surfing the web was something OK. This is, as has been pointed out, wildly off-topic. Of

Re: [css-d] Blocking css was ADMIN: Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 11/05/2010, at 1:36 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: Of course, we could bring it back on-topic by discussing various ways to employ user stylesheets to block the display of ads while avoiding (as much as possible) the suppression of non-ad content. Actually, that and a comment by another

Re: [css-d] Blocking css was ADMIN: Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Claude Needham
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Kathy Wheeler kat...@home.albury.net.au wrote: On 11/05/2010, at 1:36 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote:  Of course, we could bring it back on-topic by discussing various ways to employ user stylesheets to block the display of ads while avoiding (as much as possible)

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Ada Elgavish
Hello, I am developing a website at: http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/Trial19.html using Dreamweaver in CS4. I have several problems: (1) The horizontal navigation bar at the top. I gave the entire navigation bar the width 780px and each menu button a width of 156px. In spite of that the menu

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dear Ada -- Your page has seven errors [1]. Until you correct these, all behaviours are effectively random. Philip Taylor [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/Trial19.html Ada Elgavish wrote: Hello, I am developing a website at:

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Ada Elgavish
Dear Philip, Thanks again for introducing me to the Validation Service! I corrected all the mistakes detected by the validation service. Still have the problems below... Any help will be appreciated! Thanks. Ada -Original Message- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ada Elgavish wrote: Dear Philip, Thanks again for introducing me to the Validation Service! I corrected all the mistakes detected by the validation service. Still have the problems below… Any help will be appreciated! You're very welcome, Ada, and congratulations on correcting the errors

Re: [css-d] Blocking css was ADMIN: Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 5, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Kathy Wheeler wrote: Actually, that and a comment by another poster re css id names (#advertisement) makes me ask are there names we should avoid using for class and id identifiers if they are likely to trigger some sort of blocking mechanism that might wreck

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Ada Elgavish
I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS Validator mean...; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them...I do understand, though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the vertical navigation spry. Would correcting these errors of syntax

[css-d] On iPhone, fonts look smaller in the footer

2010-11-04 Thread BHomis
I know my code is probably sloppy, but I'm learning. On a site I'm working on, everything looks as planned on all browsers on my computer and mobile devices, except the iPhone iPod Touch. On these two devices, the text in the footer is somehow half the size as it should be. Any ideas?

[css-d] On iPhone, fonts look smaller in the footer

2010-11-04 Thread BHomis
Sorry about the previous email. One of these days I'll learn how to send code. I know my code is probably sloppy, but I'm learning. On a site I'm working on, everything looks as planned on all browsers on my computer and mobile devices, except the iPhone iPod Touch. On these two devices,

[css-d] On iPhone, fonts look smaller in the footer

2010-11-04 Thread BHomis
Sorry about the previous email. One of these days I'll learn how to send code. I know my code is probably sloppy, but I'm learning. On a site I'm working on, everything looks as planned on all browsers on my computer and mobile devices, except the iPhone iPod Touch. On these two

Re: [css-d] On iPhone, fonts look smaller in the footer

2010-11-04 Thread David Laakso
On 11/4/10 8:43 PM, bho...@aol.com wrote: Sorry about the previous email. One of these days I'll learn how to send code. A url to the problem site in question is almost always your best bet. Regards, ~grasshopper -- :: desktop and mobile :: http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 11/05/2010, at 10:53 AM, Ada Elgavish wrote: I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS Validator mean...; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them...I do understand, though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the vertical