Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-12 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Richard Mason wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand that sentence, but I think you would agree that it > is desirable to state in information sources on this topic that x-height > varies with font size, and a reason why as you have indicated. From there > one could

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Richard Mason wrote: > Speaking of CSS specs I'm always surprised that the spec authors don't get > called out for the nonsense they put in them. A specification should tell an > author (a programmer) what is required. It should not tell them how to do it > or exp

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-12 Thread Richard Mason
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Bruno Fassino wrote Yes, the computation of the aspect ratio gives results depending on the size. But this does not mean that such computations are wrong. I'm not sure I understand that sentence, but I think you would agree that it is desirable to state in information sou

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
>> But you don't have 2 items!!! You have one item with some added line > breaks. That's why Chetan's solution only indents the first line. > (It does work on the first line this end. In which browser are you > failing to see the indent?) > > To get the effect you seek, you absolutely need two ite

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/12/11 11:34 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given how my content is coming in from the CMS

Re: [css-d] Floats followed by paragraphs

2011-01-12 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Del Wegener wrote: Good Day; I frequently float one image right another left and follow that with a paragraph of text. What is the best method for preventing the text from creeping up between the two pictures? See a sample here: http://www.alliedcorrosion.com/products/ma

Re: [css-d] Floats followed by paragraphs

2011-01-12 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
Hello, you have to define "clear: both;" on the p element in order to have it clear the left and the right floated image. Best regards, Christian Kirchhoff Editura GmbH & Co. KG Tempelhofer Damm 2 · 12101 Berlin www.editura.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HRA 43189 B · U

[css-d] Floats followed by paragraphs

2011-01-12 Thread Del Wegener
Good Day; I frequently float one image right another left and follow that with a paragraph of text. What is the best method for preventing the text from creeping up between the two pictures? See a sample here: http://www.alliedcorrosion.com/products/manufacturer_introduction.php Then click on

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-12 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Richard Mason wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote > >> If you want/need to know the aspect ratio of a font, this service can help >> (for fonts installed on your local drives): >> http://fontdeck.com/font-size-adjust.html >> or this page: >> ht

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote: > Sorry, only a limited number of properties can be applied to the > pseudo element :first-line. These do not include positioning > properties. Looks like your only option is to put the text of the > first line within a span and then style it. > >

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Chetan Crasta
Sorry, only a limited number of properties can be applied to the pseudo element :first-line. These do not include positioning properties. Looks like your only option is to put the text of the first line within a span and then style it. ~Chetan __

Re: [css-d] Browsers to Test with (was: Positioning an obj...)

2011-01-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/01/12 19:56 (GMT+0100) Gabriele Romanato composed: Don't get me wrong but ... What is the percentage of use of Seamonkey? ;-) Family trees: 1-IE 2-Gecko [1] SeaMonkey [Mozilla Suite renamed] Firefox [progeny of Mozilla aka Gecko] a bunch of others 3a-KHTML

Re: [css-d] [Test]: Positioning an object element

2011-01-12 Thread Kevin A. Cameron
Dang it, did it again - sent to individual and not the list. What's up with that?! Not sure if the W3 browser stats are accurate, but ignoring chrome (and or > safari) seems to be ignoring a large % of potential users... > > 2010 Internet > Explorer

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Rory Bernstein > wrote: >> Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a >> paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the >> lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given how my conten

Re: [css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: > Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a > paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the > lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given how my content > is

[css-d] line breaks and/or outdenting?

2011-01-12 Thread Rory Bernstein
Hello, I posted here before about a solution for outdenting the lines of a paragraph (first line of text hangs our further to left than the rest of the lines) and got a great solution. But, it turns out that given how my content is coming in from the CMS, I cannot mark up the text in the way tha

Re: [css-d] [Test]: Positioning an object element

2011-01-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Gabriele Romanato wrote: Don't get me wrong but ... What is the percentage of use of Seamonkey? ;-) Philip, as a rule of thumb, you should always test in major league browsers, like IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Of course, it /could/ be something to with the following, and nothing t

Re: [css-d] [Test]: Positioning an object element

2011-01-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Gabriele Romanato wrote: > Don't get me wrong but ... What is the percentage of use of Seamonkey? ;-) No idea, but it's all I ever use. I might, if it were particularly important, test against a recent IE & Firefox, but to be absolutely honest, I don't care what things look like in the last t

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-12 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, rich...@moremagic.com wrote: Quoting "Chris F.A. Johnson" : It's off in other browsers as well. See . What browser is that, by the way? Any browser with a larger minimum font size than yours. The buttons seem off there, but those

Re: [css-d] [Test]: Positioning an object element

2011-01-12 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Don't get me wrong but ... What is the percentage of use of Seamonkey? ;-) Philip, as a rule of thumb, you should always test in major league browsers, like IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. Minority browsers get you mad. I used to have up to 10 browsers on my computer, and once I got ac

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-12 Thread richard
Quoting "Chris F.A. Johnson" : It's off in other browsers as well. See . What browser is that, by the way? The buttons seem off there, but those are a minor concern in relation to the overall form layout, which looks okay to me in your SS. I'm trying t

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-12 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, rich...@moremagic.com wrote: Quoting David Laakso : Post uri to list. Thanks. ~d Whoops, my mind must have been leaving me at the end of the day.. https://www.moremagicpoints.com/mloyalty/browsercompatability is the address where I placed the page. It's off in othe

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-12 Thread richard
Quoting David Laakso : Post uri to list. Thanks. ~d Whoops, my mind must have been leaving me at the end of the day.. https://www.moremagicpoints.com/mloyalty/browsercompatability is the address where I placed the page. As Philip mentioned the certificate is off, I've been nagging the

Re: [css-d] [Test]: Positioning an object element

2011-01-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Gabriele Romanato wrote: Hi. A couple of days ago a user posted here a message about and positioning. I've created a test page and a brief description that I think it may be helpful for future use cases: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/01/css-positioning-object-element.html As you can s

[css-d] [Test]: Positioning an object element

2011-01-12 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Hi. A couple of days ago a user posted here a message about and positioning. I've created a test page and a brief description that I think it may be helpful for future use cases: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/01/css-positioning-object-element.html hope this will help you to get an ide