Re: [css-d] Using Modernizr html classes

2015-02-04 Thread Barney Carroll
); } ) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 4 February 2015 at 00:10, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Philippe On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:05 PM Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote: Le 4 févr. 2015 à 05:58, Tom Livingston

Re: [css-d] keyframe:hover

2015-01-13 Thread Barney Carroll
/cvys8e4n/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 13 January 2015 at 15:44, Tedd Sperling t...@sperling.com wrote: On Jan 11, 2015, at 5:25 PM, Crest Christopher crestchristop...@gmail.com wrote: I want to create an animated:hover with @keyframe

Re: [css-d] Background-Image overrides background color

2015-01-11 Thread Barney Carroll
I'm amazed it took this long for a link to the W3 validator to creep into the conversation. Maybe if we keep at it the list archives will trump w3schools in search results? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 11 January 2015 at 16:22, Tom

Re: [css-d] Fwd: [Bug 977063] Colors that are part of font family names are not shown as text in DevTools Inspector/Rules

2014-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
The email digest isn't overly intelligible, but from looking at the last posts on the linked threads it seems 1049436 was closed as a duplicate of 977063. Couldn't find your name in either thread from a text search, so I don't know which one is yours…

Re: [css-d] NOT centering text in the center!

2014-12-17 Thread Barney Carroll
Salut Faramineux, You can use display inline-block, left 50% (relative to offset parent) and transform translateX( -50% ) (relative to self) to achieve this effect with variable width: http://jsbin.com/ruwada/1/edit?css,output Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

Re: [css-d] NOT centering text in the center!

2014-12-17 Thread Barney Carroll
to most description. BTW to avoid laborious load copy pasting into validation services, you can get a direct HTTP reference to jsbin markup via http://jsbin.com/{bin#}/{revision#} Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 17 December 2014 at 14:21

Re: [css-d] matrix3D

2014-11-27 Thread Barney Carroll
byte-saving – it's easier for most people to rationalise and express a scale or a translation than it is to mentally model a matrix. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 27 November 2014 at 03:38, Crest Christopher crestchristop...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [css-d] validating CSS when?

2014-11-25 Thread Barney Carroll
://www.npmjs.org/package/gulp-css-validator Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 25 November 2014 at 15:50, MiB digital.disc...@gmail.com wrote: As I often feel inclined to use vendor-prefixes in order to meet business requirements, my CSS

Re: [css-d] validating CSS when?

2014-11-25 Thread Barney Carroll
I only run stylesheets through the validator when: 1) I can not find one of my own disable this declaration markers, 2) I can not manage to debug a problem in browsers locally, and/or 3) I have to share my CSS code with a developer who is paranoid when it comes to validity -- something I am

Re: [css-d] validating CSS when?

2014-11-25 Thread Barney Carroll
On Tuesday, 25 November 2014, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: …HTML 5, but ONLY if new elements such as audio, video or canvas are required. That's an interesting approach. Any particular reason not to use HTML5 at all times? -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com

Re: [css-d] site makeover

2014-10-30 Thread Barney Carroll
collapses to linear, they look like calls to action to indicate nested content (subsections, or something). Might be worth hiding them on the smaller media queries? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 30 October 2014 15:29, David Laakso

Re: [css-d] Why there is a space between two div

2014-10-13 Thread Barney Carroll
Because they are inline-block, they adopt some of the properties of inline text: since there is white space between the divs in the HTML, it's also appearing in the rendered document. You could edit the HTML to remove the space (as seen here: http://jsfiddle.net/barney/d2zh48cy/) or use some of

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
, Karl Sent from losPhone On Oct 6, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: CSS discuss often reminds me of my doctor, to whom I'll often go with queries about an acute injury and come away with advice to stop smoking – wise well

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
Yeah, the impression I get it is that they're not really concerned about CSS validity. They do care about HTML validity, though – they use an automated validation reporter (no more having to open email, scan email for URL, paste URL into validator, copy link into email reply, hit send) for their

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
a sucker for punishment ;) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 7 October 2014 12:48, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: This begs the question: how much should one expound on browsers that one is unfamiliar

Re: [css-d] OT : links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
and business-critical that the client will happily use a specific browser version in order to guarantee expected behaviour. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 7 October 2014 13:53, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: I'm

Re: [css-d] OT : links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-07 Thread Barney Carroll
prefixed properties from the application lifecycle altogether. Thanks for prompting! [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0313.html On 7 Oct 2014 14:52, Ms2ger ms2...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/2014 03:23 PM, Barney Carroll wrote

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-06 Thread Barney Carroll
on `.hover` panels. Remove the `e.preventDefault()` invocation on line 22 and the links are functional. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 6 October 2014 09:44, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Bob Schwartz wrote: I’m going slightly mad

Re: [css-d] links not working smartphone - tablet

2014-10-06 Thread Barney Carroll
losPhone On Oct 6, 2014, at 5:07 AM, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: CSS discuss often reminds me of my doctor, to whom I'll often go with queries about an acute injury and come away with advice to stop smoking – wise well-intentioned, but somewhat

Re: [css-d] Ready for Pre-processors?

2014-04-27 Thread Barney Carroll
. But that's true of anything: pre-processors are definitely not scornful of this attitude; they offer a way to sustematise it. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d

Re: [css-d] Equal-length columns - display: table-cell OK?

2014-04-09 Thread Barney Carroll
x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x; } } Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman

Re: [css-d] Firefox and page inflation

2014-04-07 Thread Barney Carroll
Please forgive the impertinent lurker here, but could somebody weigh in with why relative measures are necessary when the desired outcome is pixel-level accuracy? -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] Centering a group of floated thumbnails (which are in a responsive width design)

2014-03-13 Thread Barney Carroll
Put display: block and text-align: center back on .progress-gallery-images and display: inline-block back on .progress-gallery-image (and removed their float: left), and it just worked! http://jsfiddle.net/barney/Uuw29/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

Re: [css-d] rotate image CSS3?

2014-03-04 Thread Barney Carroll
Take any one of those results. Copy the code that rotates the image (it will have the 'rotate' keyword in it). Leave out the code that animates the rotation (it will have the keywords 'animation' or 'transition' in it). __

Re: [css-d] Will the unsemantic HTML elements B and I be soon phased out?

2014-02-17 Thread Barney Carroll
While bikeshedding around 'how semantic' people feel any given element to be is a great laugh (although definitely off-topic for this list), I would highly recommend the HTML specification for insight into the purpose of any HTML element, especially when confusion arises over the possibility of

Re: [css-d] Will the unsemantic HTML elements B and I be soon phased out?

2014-02-16 Thread Barney Carroll
Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] nth of type issue

2014-01-24 Thread Barney Carroll
Confirmed: /div closing tags aren't optional: http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080601/optional-tags-in-html-4/ Regards, Barney Carroll __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-19 Thread Barney Carroll
tl;dr: David has discovered a bug in Chrome 31 whereby rules featuring concurrent positioning pseudo-classes on the same element are removed from the DOM when the affected element is hovered. In his example, you can see this happen by hovering over the second list item and watching the caret

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-19 Thread Barney Carroll
On 19 November 2013 14:01, MiB digital.disc...@gmail.com wrote: I can't vouch for hover as I don't see this element to begin with in Chrome 31. That's very interesting. This is what I get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyGy47YNHc Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-19 Thread Barney Carroll
, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 19 November 2013 15:40, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/19/13, 6:01 AM, MiB wrote: nov 19 2013 14.55 Barney Carroll: David has discovered a bug in Chrome 31 whereby rules featuring concurrent

Re: [css-d] Chrome for Mac disowns children

2013-11-17 Thread Barney Carroll
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/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] Checking up on buggy behavior in latest Google Chrome versions.

2013-11-15 Thread Barney Carroll
: 999em (or something equally large), then using transitions on that property? Chuck opacity in and you've basically retired jQuery ;) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] RWD Swap content images

2013-10-31 Thread Barney Carroll
/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/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] HTML email question

2013-10-17 Thread Barney Carroll
://www.campaignmonitor.com/guides/mobile/ [2] http://stylecampaign.com/ [3] http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] Start at the bottom! (was Front page breaking in IE8, maybe 9 too)

2013-10-09 Thread Barney Carroll
beginning with variable numbers of '', with hard returns all over the place. Ironically I wasn't all that interested in this thread until it became completely unreadable to me. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] margin-top on footer ineffectual?

2013-09-20 Thread Barney Carroll
it start to take effect. Remove `clear: both` from the footer or `float: left` from the section and the problem is resolved. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 20 September 2013 15:16, John j...@coffeeonmars.com wrote: On the page below

Re: [css-d] Bad web font display in Chrome and Opera?

2013-09-19 Thread Barney Carroll
-- http://www.evolt.org/help_**support_evolt/http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] iOS simulator vs FireFox?

2013-09-03 Thread Barney Carroll
A portrait-oriented iPhone viewport is 320 (CSS) pixels wide, but the view on the right is 480 wide (the same as a landscape-oriented iPhone viewport). I don't know where the 530 came from. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 3 September 2013

Re: [css-d] How can I use position fixed in IE?

2013-08-30 Thread Barney Carroll
to test :P -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

Re: [css-d] CSS3 Animation Top Position Percent problem

2013-08-28 Thread Barney Carroll
that some kind of hack (involving a hidden duplicate with relative positioning above the real content div, then animating its max-height, maybe?) involving max-height might come in handy? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 28 August 2013 08:33

Re: [css-d] Centering wide site on phones

2013-08-13 Thread Barney Carroll
barneycarroll.comwith a web inspector for a live example — and resize your browser a bit to see it in action. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css

Re: [css-d] Problem getting boxes to align

2013-06-25 Thread Barney Carroll
table-cell display: position: relative; _left: 3px; _margin-right: 3px; Hope this helps! [1] Documentation: https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/wiki/Grids; Demo (without IE-specific code): http://jsfiddle.net/barney/7Bd8V/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

Re: [css-d] unfamiliar url reference

2013-06-06 Thread Barney Carroll
The # symbol in a URL indicates content within a resource - it is most often used to jump to content. For example, the following link will take you to the wikipedia page URI_scheme and scroll down to focus on the element with an ID of Generic_syntax:

Re: [css-d] linear-gradient

2013-06-05 Thread Barney Carroll
This is one of those cases where the syntax is so convoluted and forked I can never remember it myself — but when I don't have SASS at my disposal I always go to this tool: www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ It even throws in IE filter and svg data-uri polyfills! On Jun 5, 2013 10:58 PM, Angela

Re: [css-d] Image and background colour changes on hover.

2013-05-13 Thread Barney Carroll
/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 8 May 2013 03:44, Anna Gav agav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all Re: http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/703/sdfdsf.png I need to reproduce the functionality demonstrated in this image. The requirements

Re: [css-d] CSS3 Transitions

2013-05-13 Thread Barney Carroll
://www.apple.com/uk/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 23 April 2013 11:13, Anton Steiner oe2...@yahoo.de wrote: Hello CSS3 transitions are very amazing and i would try it for a search-bar. But the bar shoud expand to left. Is this possible

Re: [css-d] trying to remove outline off of image map areas

2013-03-29 Thread Barney Carroll
Sadly, IE will need Javascript to achieve this, in the form of listening for the `focus` event for each such element and triggering `blur` on it. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Can You Do This?

2013-03-05 Thread Barney Carroll
' is. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 5 March 2013 13:10, David grovesda...@linkhomes2000.co.uk wrote: Hello, Files is here: http://www.linkhomes2000.co.**uk/main/calculators/** linkmortgagecalcstart_005.phphttp://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk

Re: [css-d] Can You Do This?

2013-03-05 Thread Barney Carroll
is to reply to all and not to top-post (as I mistakenly did), and only to include past messages as part of your own unless you're replying inline (like this). Official list policies are here FYI: http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html Barney Carroll Wrote : I'm sure what you're trying to do can be done

Re: [css-d] what is h1 small syntax?

2013-02-22 Thread Barney Carroll
On Feb 22, 2013 8:36 PM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: Apart from the issue whether it is a good ideas to size fonts in pixels, the question arises why one would use fractions of a pixel, in 24.5px, which might get rounded to 24px or 25px (or dealt with in some other way). One

Re: [css-d] desktop ie/9 windows 7

2013-02-13 Thread Barney Carroll
I believe you'd need to use IE's own transformation filters. Because there's a slight difference in implementation as regards assumed transformation point-of-origin, this tool comes in incredibly handy for doing the maths: http://www.useragentman.com/IETransformsTranslator/ Regards, Barney

Re: [css-d] Setting height relative to width

2013-02-11 Thread Barney Carroll
Thierry wrote up an excellent technique for this that is incidentally very useful when scaling embedded media. The linked article frames it in that context, but the principles are the same: a padding property percentage will take relative width as its reference:

Re: [css-d] Setting height relative to width

2013-02-11 Thread Barney Carroll
Ah no. This is the crux of it: you need additional markup for the scaffold. A parent with relativity and containment, a semantically useless child with the padding, and your second child taking advantage of the resulting shape to hold the genuine contents. I was thinking of adding the disclaimer:

Re: [css-d] display: table not working as expected

2013-02-07 Thread Barney Carroll
:47, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote: More colourful demo: http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/bc_table-form.html Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d

Re: [css-d] IE8 stylesheet doesn't work even in the head tag

2012-12-23 Thread Barney Carroll
The CSS needs to be contained in a style element. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [css-d] no space between p tags

2012-12-20 Thread Barney Carroll
-- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] bullets not behaving

2012-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
What do you want them to line up with? It's all relative… __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies --

Re: [css-d] bullets not behaving

2012-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
would allow normal line breaking and restore normal table layout. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 14 December 2012 14:18, Dana B designdeli...@gmail.com wrote: each other... like usual in left-justified text... thanks typos via my

Re: [css-d] bullets not behaving

2012-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
Table layouts are really tough like that. You never know what's going to work! Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 14 December 2012 16:00, Dana B designdeli...@gmail.com wrote: I was mistaken -- Barney was correct. No more problem! Thanks

Re: [css-d] html5 hover support on safari

2012-11-27 Thread Barney Carroll
-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-08 Thread Barney Carroll
don't give two hoots about specification-validity but live and die by the pragmatism of their junk ;), you're looking in the wrong place. You may find what you're looking for here, though: http://csslint.net/ -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Barney Carroll
Nope! The position was relative anyway — a new rule matching a selector does not override all previous rules: it extends them (individual properties will be over-written). The W3C validator takes the sum of all things and statically analyses to see if there’s anything invalid in there at all.

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Barney Carroll
at the bottom. And when it comes to inheriting code that doesn't match my own style, my rule of thumb is to leave it be unless it causes problems and I feel confident I understand and can circumvent the underlying reasons behind it. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

[css-d] The value of zoom WAS: Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Barney Carroll
. Better the devil you know, in any case — at the moment I'm wrestling with buggy Android WebKit box model issues relating to transform, and it's not pretty — neither is it documented. Here again, W3C validity is little comfort. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278

Re: [css-d] transform translate percentages and Android

2012-11-01 Thread Barney Carroll
On 1 November 2012 01:08, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote: If I understand correctly (no Android based device to test over here), Android default browser treats the inner width of .tabs as the total of your 3 ‘columns’ for the purpose of the translate3d transform ? Yes, that's

Re: [css-d] CSS content attribute.

2012-10-21 Thread Barney Carroll
great example of Opera bringing huge unasked-for gifts to the table. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] CSS content attribute.

2012-10-21 Thread Barney Carroll
not mentioned in the afore-linked specification. -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki

Re: [css-d] What's the official/technical name of...

2012-10-17 Thread Barney Carroll
by evolt.org -- -- Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

Re: [css-d] site review

2012-10-15 Thread Barney Carroll
://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-px-hack-new-image-replacement/) — what do you reckon to the HTML5 boilerplate method Snook came up with? (http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/hiding-content-for-accessibility) Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] JavaScript animations and CSS animations in web apps

2012-10-02 Thread Barney Carroll
Hi Gabriele, This question has been much on my mind – I've experimented with a lot of methods and to be perfectly honest I'm still experimenting project by project. Pertinently, an interesting article recently appeared on the Opera development blog about just this subject [1]. Generally what I

Re: [css-d] Firefox Numerical Class Names

2012-10-01 Thread Barney Carroll
to express the numeric character with unicode escaping (rather than simply preceding with an escape character), but otherwise it is likely no! Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css

Re: [css-d] Opposing floats not lining up

2012-09-24 Thread Barney Carroll
://jsfiddle.net/barney/BHWYP/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread Barney Carroll
Felix, this is the reason I subscribe to the list. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer – there's loads here I didn't know. It's amazing how much bizarre standard practice comes from a perceived need for retroactive continuity with a minority of sites that make terrible mistakes. Break the

Re: [css-d] android blackberry emulators

2012-07-03 Thread Barney Carroll
http://ripple.tinyhippos.com/ For Webkit-based Blackberrys, at least, Ripple is officially supported by RIM, who manufacture Blackberries. Which is a good start. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] display:block in Outlook 2007 2010

2012-05-21 Thread Barney Carroll
Hey W, Stylesheets are often unreliable in email clients. For many things, you have to bring the styles inline – img style=display:block src=blah alt=blah / There's a handy guide to various cross-client compatibility over here: http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/ Regards, Barney Carroll

Re: [css-d] question about vendor specific prefix

2012-05-08 Thread Barney Carroll
of the same name, whereas -webkit-border-radius implies partial or buggy support and/or an implementation based on an unfinished specification – so you would want the former to take precedence if available. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] question about vendor specific prefix

2012-05-08 Thread Barney Carroll
to be abreast of latest implementations, I highly recommend http://css3please.com. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css

Re: [css-d] Centering Variable Width Page Items

2012-05-05 Thread Barney Carroll
So effectively, you wish to make #fixed variable? ;) The trick to this is to set a max-width in combination with margin-left and -right set to auto. See barneycarroll.com for a working example: the content is never wider than the viewport, but remains centred on wider screens. Regards, Barney

Re: [css-d] The universal selector

2012-05-02 Thread Barney Carroll
Is this normal behaviour? Yes. The fact that div displays block and span displays inline by default is down to browser stylesheet defaults. head and its contents display none by default. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com

Re: [css-d] Multiple, evenly split, fluid columns inside fixed-width parent container?

2012-04-27 Thread Barney Carroll
Hi Philip, 1) The odd word grouping is down to whitespace rules on links. I've always found it disconcerting reading when links run across a line break, but perhaps I need to take care to keep them short if I'm going to force continuity. 2) The experience is a far longer section than the

Re: [css-d] Multiple, evenly split, fluid columns inside fixed-width parent container?

2012-04-25 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya Micky, I always forget that a reply on this list won't reply to the list. Sorry. As for margins with columns, I think the best idea is to create children wrappers within the columns and give them margins — the parent wrapper has the proportional width relative to the parent, while the child

Re: [css-d] what does !important mean?

2012-04-19 Thread Barney Carroll
Every now and then, when I'm reading other peoples'/companies' css code, i see this !important thing added to the end of some of the lines in css. What does it do/change? Hiya David, The !important flag, when appended to a CSS property, makes the declaration take precedence over all

Re: [css-d] Adblocker and css classes/ids

2012-02-19 Thread Barney Carroll
arbitrary classnames? .guerrilla sounds pretty cool to me. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 19 February 2012 08:45, Graham Hays graham.h...@visualcomputing.co.uk wrote: Hi all Can anyone advise if there is a master list somewhere of id

Re: [css-d] Inappropriate uses of CSS3

2012-02-19 Thread Barney Carroll
and hinders the user. But these are ultimately kill-joy arguments rooted in vague unsubstantiated opinions on minor usability concerns. [1] http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/css-transitions-media-queries/ Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com On 19 February

Re: [css-d] html5shiv problem

2012-02-18 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya Ellen, Google search for html5shiv print revealed this: https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv/blob/master/src/html5shiv-printshiv.js Don't have a printer at hand to test but by all accounts it seems vetted by the experts… Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 On 18 Feb 2012, at 08

[css-d] Hide from keyboard navigation

2012-01-19 Thread Barney Carroll
don't want to continuously add and remove markup. Would the style snippet article{visibility:hidden} article.active{visibility:visible} be effective enough to restrict keyboard access as I've described? Are there any other accessiblity caveats with this method that anyone can think of? Regards, Barney

Re: [css-d] CSS Via Conditional Comments for Safari?

2011-12-24 Thread Barney Carroll
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Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
Secondly, if you guys, who wish to drop IE6, wish to work with APAC customers, that might be a tad problematic to have both wishes granted at the same time. Last week I was able to see what browsers several large Asian companies tend to use. IE6 - IE8. 20% IE6, 20% IE7, 30% IE8, rest - other

Re: [css-d] Puzzling rendering difference

2011-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
That's odd. Confirming Chrome bugs is a bit of a pain because of the incredibly regular silent updates. Getting the particular versions necessary to isolate what the bug affects would be difficult — but on the plus side you can usually wait a week and have it resolve itself ;)

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-17 Thread Barney Carroll
The misleading implication with this news from MS is that users who have been inexplicably stuck on IE6 will all be moved forward by this. The sad fact is a lot of IE6 is intentional lock in. Here in the UK almost all government employees have it as their only browser — and that's a matter of

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-16 Thread Barney Carroll
Does it mean that, after MS takes these steps, we can basically forget about hacking and kudging our sites to work with IE 6? No. Microsoft have yet to explain exactly how these updates will be introduced (particularly for XP users). The idea is that Internet Explorer updates, including whole

Re: [css-d] IE 6 news implications

2011-12-16 Thread Barney Carroll
Sounds from your comments that some/many companies feel that IE6 usage is so insignificant as to make accommodating it to be more costly than any benefit gotten from the accommodation. Is that the feeling? I work for a digital marketing agency that churns out a fairly large number of

Re: [css-d] iframe troubles

2011-12-14 Thread Barney Carroll
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Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Barney Carroll
of the cascade. Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com +44 7429 177278 barneycarroll.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Barney Carroll
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Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Barney Carroll
on alistapart.com. Responsive Web Design and the earlier Fluid Grids articles show a huge experience and massive insight on these matters. Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] the realities of moving and resizing images

2011-11-07 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya John, My tentative answer to that question would be 'yes' ;) Can you be a bit more specific about your particular intentions and concerns? Regards, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.com 07594 506 381 __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] the realities of moving and resizing images

2011-11-07 Thread Barney Carroll
://bostonglobe.com/ Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 On 7 Nov 2011, at 15:34, e...@copywritecolombia.com wrote: Basically don't resize images it is a waste of bandwidth just download the image once in the right size for your design and be done with it --Mensaje original

Re: [css-d] can CSS do flick panning?

2011-10-21 Thread Barney Carroll
Hiya Jon, currently only possible in iOS5 Safari with -webkit-overflow-scrolling: bounce; This needs to be on top of overflow: scroll. Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278 __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] I must be a moron, How to reply to messages

2011-10-19 Thread Barney Carroll
the presence of mind to change it, it prevents the list archives getting bogged down with complaints at other defaults, like all my software's top-posting and my awful sense of humour ;) Regards, Barney Carroll (+44) 742 9177 278

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