Re: [css-d] proper way to kill text decoration on link?

2011-11-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
John wrote: I have this for my basic links: a { color: #111311; border-bottom: 1px dotted #000; margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: none; } a:hover, a:focus, a:active { color: #8c; } and I want to keep it, but I also

Re: [css-d] Text Size Smaller Than CSS Indicates?

2011-10-31 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
PL wrote: My client has a number of property pages. I have just added flash slide shows to the banner area. I did not change anything in the CSS to do this and the CSS remains the same for all property pages as before. However, on one page, the text appears to have changed to a smaller font

[css-d] Fit to width

2011-10-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
I am looking for a technique that will allow me to generate a DIV, the width of which is the width of its widest non-shrinkable immediate child element; the DIV will always be floated. For example, consider the following : DIV style=float: ... IMG src=... alt=...

Re: [css-d] My website doesn't display in IE

2011-10-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Karl Bedingfield wrote: Now it may be that I have spent too many hours at the laptop but for some reason my new Tumblr theme design just does not show in IE. All I get is the background and no content. My site displays just fine in Chrome and Firefox. Can anyone see what might be causing

Re: [css-d] My website doesn't display in IE

2011-10-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Karl Bedingfield wrote: Well I cleaned up the validation a little. As far as I can see the other code is auto-generated and beyond my control. I still think there is a CSS issue I am missing. Just don't know what. Well, that's quite possible : W3C CSS Validator results for

[css-d] [Off-topic] Pointer to analogous list sought (event handling)

2011-10-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Could some kind soul suggest to which list questions concerning event handling are best directed (in the context of web pages, image maps, and onmouseover/out) ? Many thanks in advance : Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

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

2011-10-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Felix Miata wrote: Linux distros are free to package extensions or not as they see fit. Apparently David's doesn't and yours does, or David's using neither Linux nor an extension that provides it. Is there any evidence to suggest that Reply to list functionality is offered only via an

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of space between background images that are repeating vertically

2011-10-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
URL or URI ? Angela French wrote: I have a background image that repeats vertically. The weird thing is though, that it is rendering with a small space between each one. Can someone tell me what property I might try to get rid of that? Or why it is doing that? Angela French Internet

Re: [css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Have you tested this in anything beside a Gecko browser ? To be honest, no. I develop using solely Seamonkey, and only when the site renders successfully in that do I look to see how it might render in other browsers. See

Re: [css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Since you already have markup like Mspan class=Keyphraseany of us/span it would seem natural to put the initial letter in a classed span, making it trivial to refer to it in CSS. Assuming, of course, that you can affect the markup. Yes, I can indeed; I was just

[css-d] Query on P:First-letter

2011-09-27 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Could anyone explain why the leading M of the following paragraph : p style=margin-top: 2.3em!-- #BeginLibraryItem /Library/Ugandan infant in a laundry basket.lbi --img id=Infant-Uganda-001 src=Resources/Images/Photographs/Web/Scaled/240/Infant-Uganda.001.jpg

Re: [css-d] Drop Down Menu On Hover Testing Please - IE 7

2011-09-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Elli Vizcaino wrote: Hello, I am unable to test functional behavior cross browser because I have to rely on browser shot services to do my testing. I would greatly appreciate it, if a number of you would take a look at this site http://e7flux.com/dfd/ and hover on the word About in

Re: [css-d] Drop Down Menu On Hover Testing Please - IE 7

2011-09-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Elli Vizcaino wrote: Seamonkey? Umm that doesn't sound like a very popular browser. What machine/OS do you have? Pentium 4-based PC running Windows/XP Professional; SP3. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Drop Down Menu On Hover Testing Please - IE 7

2011-09-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Elli Vizcaino wrote: No one is giving me any insights into this sub menu hanging issue I got feedback on. Or has it magically corrected itself after I made the other adjustments. Another look would be greatly appreciated :) No comments on this, since I can't see it, but there is one

Re: [css-d] Mysterious Div

2011-09-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tom Livingston wrote: Link? Nancy Timper wrote: DUH. http://www.datecreekranch.com thanks __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-09-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tomasz Borek wrote: What actually puzzles me is why would that site creator have different classes (char1, char2, ...) for characters in each letter in Cowpoke's. Including the '. The only styling he uses is margin-right, like: h1 .char2 { /* try also char5 and char8 */

Re: [css-d] CSS Organization

2011-08-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
mem wrote: Let's suppose that by looking to those wireframes, I can say that all my h2 will have a padding-bottom of 10px. However, if later on, I create a rule telling that the ul will have a margin top of 5px... (because almost all may have that attribute) if I place the h2 on top of

[css-d] Off-topic : was IE6 (was can style sheets be too long?)

2011-08-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: My current employer - and the previous employer - use IE6 as their official corporate browser. The reason the current employer uses it? High end mission critical enterprise web apps that work only with IE6. Replacing the apps would cost millions of dollars or more,

[css-d] Off-topic : h1 replacement -- which one is recommended?

2011-08-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Scott Hamm wrote: I've been looking all over websites -- a lot of good h1 replacement suggestions. But which one is more practical, validated in all aspects i.e. bobby approved, html5, etc? H1 is HTML, not CSS, but that said, why might anyone want to replace it ? Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] stretch one div vertically in three column layout

2011-08-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Laakso wrote: For those among us who suffer from short-term-memory-loss and/or don't have time to look it up: --what is your url? --what versions of IE do you need to hit? I can confirm that http://adif.sk/testversion/index.html, viewed in Internet Explorer V7 on Windows/XP, looks

Re: [css-d] Hidden HRs

2011-08-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chetan Crasta wrote: Using Firebug, this is what I found: The two lines is actually a bottom border on the h1. The p element is relatively positioned to overlap the bottom part of the h1. A background color is set on the p to prevent the border from being seen over the letters. Clever !

Re: [css-d] Seeking Selector Functioning Like a Backwards Adjacent Sibling Selector

2011-08-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 18.8.2011 8:40, Rick Gordon wrote: I'm just wondering how I might approach addressing a tag that appears just before another tag, lick the p tag that would immediately precede an h1. The adjacent sibling selector p h1 would give me access to the attributes of

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Keith Purtell wrote: I've removed most of the ugly blankness of my splash page, but two technical problems remain. ... http://www.keithpurtell.com/kthings/ Keith, do you have any idea why the T is so badly (over)kerned in CONTACT ? It is very tight in OTHER and AUTHORS, but just gets away

Re: [css-d] DIVs referring to each other, and absolute positioning

2011-08-15 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline) is intended to convey I have no idea -- it did not come from this end. Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Keith Purtell wrote: I've removed most of the ugly blankness of my splash page, but two technical problems remain

Re: [css-d] parse error on *html

2011-07-29 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tom Livingston wrote: Though I'm rusty on *HTML hacks- havent used one in years - the validator is a tool, not law. If you know that is correct and need it for a fix, then it's fine. With respect, the validator is more likely to know if something is correct than a mere human; I would be

Re: [css-d] [OT] Why no HTML

2011-07-20 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
FWIW, I think that Ghodmode has every right to ask why HTML e-mails are prohibited on this list, even though I personally rejoice that they are. I also appreciate the non-confrontational way in which he has presented his views and responded to the view of others. However. In my e-mail client

Re: [css-d] Logo in a div

2011-07-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Brian M. Curran wrote: Why does www.seobook.com put his logo in a div? It seems like its' only purpose is to hold the code class=logo. Wouldn't it have been easier to put the class=logo in the img tag like how I did on my site: www.draftingservices.com ? Well, clearly I don't /know/ why

Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

2011-06-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Felix Miata wrote: I don't remember being able to notice any differences between Lucida Grande and Lucida Sans Unicode on any machine I had both installed on, though I've not checked in a while. OTOH, you probably won't find Grande on any system that doesn't have Safari installed unless

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: Keith, By default. block-level elements occupy the full available width, thus any following block-level elements can only appear directly below. I am unconvinced of this explanation. At http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/tests/Block-level-elements/DIVs.html

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: It is really do with block flow direction. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-flow | The block flow direction is the direction in which | block-level boxes stack and the direction in which | line boxes stack within a block container. The |

Re: [css-d] @font-face and IE browsers....

2011-05-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
karla porter wrote: correct me if I'm wrong - but Google web fonts don't require the @font-face code. I've never had to insert that. Only the following code needs to be placed at the beginning of the/headelement... link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=WHATEVER FONT YOU USE'

[css-d] OT : The Readable Web

2011-05-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: The Readable Web blog is almost my single point of reference for the latest on font-face. If it's supposed to be The Readable Web, why does it eschew both accepted conventions [1] for indicating the start of a new paragraph, and rely solely on the last line of the

Re: [css-d] OT : The Readable Web

2011-05-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Discussion taken off-list. __ 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 -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html

Re: [css-d] Z-index demo

2011-05-06 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On May 6, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: My mouse was over the lower central image, which resolutely refused to come to the foreground until I moved my mouse away from all three images. When I move from the rightmost to the central

Re: [css-d] Z-index demo

2011-05-05 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Does not work for me, Gabriele : Seamonkey 2.0.14, Win/XP;SP3. https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5603311437556736210 My mouse was over the lower central image, which resolutely refused to come to the foreground until I moved my mouse away

Re: [css-d] Using CSS to control width of page.

2011-04-24 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
John D wrote: You will only succeed in wasting your time because it is not useful anymore. Delphi will be more useful if you want to learn something new. Responded to off-list. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Using CSS to control width of page.

2011-04-23 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Lesley Lutomski wrote: You've missed the semi-colon after width: 800px - I don't know if that might be causing problems in whichever browser you're using. It's not missing, it is omitted; as in Algol-68, semi-colon is a separator in CSS, not a terminator. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Reflection effect

2011-04-16 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ingo Chao wrote: Some hate the effect [1], therefore, it is decoration. Some hate coz, gonna and 'fess up, but they are still (sadly) only too often a part of the content :-( Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] CSS Problems in IE 9?

2011-04-14 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Laakso wrote: Long-shot: write and upload an .htaccess file Isn't .htaccess Apache-specific ? From the original message : On 4/13/11 7:20 PM, Richard Wendrock Forum wrote: http://www.PineMillRanch.com/Index.asp I would expect the use of IIS. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Side-Header Image Problem in IE 6, 7 - Solved

2011-04-12 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Andrew C. Johnston wrote: Thanks Philip once again, pulling out thebase href=[(site_name)]/base solved the problem, in combination with your earlier advice about the comment code. Really appreciate your assistance, I could never have figured it out by myself. You're very welcome, Andrew.

Re: [css-d] Side-Header Image Problem in IE 6, 7

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Andrew C. Johnston wrote: When the site was converted, I hacked out one piece of code, which served to allow the header image to effectively span the entire width of the browser, improving the look tremendously in my view, but causing errors in ie: !-- body { margin-top: 0px;

Re: [css-d] Side-Header Image Problem in IE 6, 7

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Andrew C. Johnston wrote: New link here: http://www.rayxi.com/index.php?id=197 But, it still seems to have the same problem is ie. Are these, in combination, not likely to be the source of the problem ? base href=Rayxi Consulting/base link href=assets/templates/andrew/css/cncss.css

Re: [css-d] Experiment: CSS post it note

2011-04-07 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
What has happened to some of the text on the yellow Post-it (R), Gabriele ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/tests/css/Fullscreen capture 07-Apr-2011 183056.jpg Philip Taylor Gabriele Romanato wrote: I've often asked myself: 'ok, we can rotate boxes with CSS3, but what

Re: [css-d] Centering Horizonal Navigation with Drop Downs

2011-04-07 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
John D wrote: Have you seen this article before: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/centered-dropdown-menus Let us know if this is what you were looking for. The drop-down for the fourth element is very strangely positioned :

Re: [css-d] Experiment: CSS post it note

2011-04-07 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: Beware of trying to fit text into a fixed-size container: http://t.cfaj.ca/postit.jpg For an example that works with any font size, see http://twd2.cfaj.ca/. (I have just started to redo my site, so there not much there besides the first page.) I don't know how

Re: [css-d] Erratum

2011-03-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: With this statement, the inability of browser vendors to comply with W3C specifications. I can assure that the total reverse is true. The greatest change regarding CSS is the extensive work in re-writing various parts of the CSS2.1 specs to match current browser

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: The answer is no. Isn't the css2.1 spec clear enough ? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#characters This is not correct. You can begin ID and class selectors with numbers. The only thing is that they must be encoded properly with characters escapes (the above spec

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: It will take me some time to decide by looking at the formal parts of the specification whether Alan is correct in his assertion; perhaps others more familiar with the formal syntax can save time by answering and/or pointing us at the rule(s

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Markus Ernst wrote: I could imagine a hypothetic Web application that generates class names from any other information, which may start with a digit. Thus class names may not even be known at coding time. In that case, escaping all digits might be a valuable alternative. Far simpler would

Re: [css-d] Esoteric IE6 filter-related issues

2011-03-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: I realise these are highly esoteric bugs that aren't part of the CSS canon, and not being able to show the broken stuff (NDAs, sorry) doesn't help Since, almost by definition, you don't need the real content during your development phase, can you not replace all copy

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: Hiya Elli, On 30 March 2011 15:49, Elli Vizcainoelli...@yahoo.com wrote: I forget what the rules are for naming classes and IDs This question was answered very succinctly on stackoverflow:

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: The line between philosophy politics blurs! If it works, I'll do it. If it doesn't I won't. The question is ideological and we could debate it for yonks. Ultimately, I believe posters come here for practical advice. If they were looking for the spec, a bot could do a

Re: [css-d] Erratum

2011-03-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
HallMarc Websites wrote: Vive la difference! First, I must disagree in the usage of inability; I don't believe that is the reason they produce the product in the manner they do. I believe it is, more likely, due to their vision and how they want the product to interpret what we write. For

Re: [css-d] new IE display question

2011-03-27 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Doesn't just happen in IE. In Seamonkey at my preferred settings, only the first seven fit. Ctrl + and Ctrl - wreak further havoc. Philip Taylor Rory Bernstein wrote: http://motherloadshow.com/ I'm back with another question about this same page. The main nav bar: I am just using a

Re: [css-d] ie display problem

2011-03-23 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
IE7 : Problems with this web page might prevent it from being displayed properly or functioning properly. Line 64, Char 9, Error : Object required. Line 9, Char 3894, Error : 'null' is null or not an object. Corkboard, and corresponding verso blank : displaced vertically downwards by their full

Re: [css-d] Ignore white-space between inline and/or inline-block elements in WebKit

2011-03-19 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Jarek Foksa wrote: Is there a CSS vendor extension in WebKit that would allow me to explicitely specify whether whitespace between elements should be preserved or not? This may seem an odd question, but why would you want a solution that will work in only one family of browsers ? Philip

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Charles Miller wrote: I did : I was just too shocked to comment, given that you had suggested it was overkerned. Remember, please, Goudy's aphorism. Might that be: First do no harm.:-) I'll look earlier in the thread for the actual aphorism. Look no further : A man who would

Re: [css-d] forcing the same height for neighbouring divs

2011-02-17 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Gergely Buday wrote: Hi there, I would like to have the same height of background for two neighbouring divs at http://www.math.bme.hu/~gergoe/ For the upper part I was able to set explicit height but for the lower this is not possible as the text can be variable size. On irc I got

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: If the code is not valid, you cannot predict how the page will be displayed. Fixing it may solve your problem. Quite correct. Invalid HTML may *be* the issue. You cannot know until you have fixed it. Also correct. The number of error shown may be misleading.

Re: [css-d] browser check

2011-02-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Matthew P. Johnson wrote: Oh man what browser/os is this? It does not look right at all. Any browser that supports minimum font size, I would imagine. Philip Taylor -- Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackberry, Blueberry, or any such similar poseurs' toy, none of which would I be seen

Re: [css-d] Positioning a float

2011-01-27 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Bobby Jack wrote: I'm working on a layout that requires text to wrap around a positioned image. In my case, I need an image in the bottom-right of a box, with text inside the box. So I need the in-flow, wrapping properties of a float combined with the positioning properties of an

Re: [css-d] Drop-down navigation without javascript

2011-01-27 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Laakso wrote: I think TJK's drop-down may meet your requirement... Script-free modern browsers / keyboard-friendly http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/default.asp Bearing in mind that the title of the thread is ... /without javascript/, I am somewhat

Re: [css-d] CSS validators

2011-01-25 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Isn't that : More options / Profile / CSS level 3 ? Philip Taylor Nancy Seeger wrote: Hi All, Maybe I'm being premature here but I really enjoy using some of the CSS3 techniques, of course making sure things degrade gracefully. Mostly using RGBA with a backup hex, shadow boxes,

[css-d] Fwd: Re: Vendor-specific extensions: warnings, not errors

2011-01-25 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
This is possibly relevant to Nancy's more recent query : Philip and David, If it were a snake... fantastic, I didn't know that had been added. So in checking this out - what limits does it have? Are vendor prefixes supported like Webkit etc? Thanks, Nancy Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Re: Vendor-specific extensions: warnings, not errors

2011-01-25 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Sorry, attached message was lost in transit. Repeated below. Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: This is possibly relevant to Nancy's more recent query : Philip and David, If it were a snake... fantastic, I didn't know that had been added. So in checking this out - what limits does

Re: [css-d] br { content: '\A'; white-space: pre; } in Webkit

2011-01-19 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ingo Chao wrote: HTML5:Rendering:Punctuation and decorations says br { content: '\A'; white-space: pre; } But this doesn't seem to work in Safari and Chrome: http://www.satzansatz.de/w3/break.html Who is wrong? Neither ? HTML 5 was, the last time I looked, simply work in progress;

[css-d] HTML5 and CSS3

2011-01-19 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: Philip, there is no reason at all to adopt it [HTML5] Stop being so cynical. Cynical, Barney ? No, just realistic. What about these awesome badges/t-shirts? http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ No comment needed. ? And the fact that CSS3 is now part of HTML5? What does

Re: [css-d] HTML5 and CSS3

2011-01-19 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: [long snip] So while I sympathise with your reticence as to the shallow-minded, naive, obscurantist hype surrounding 'HTML5', the HTML5 spec has given me all sorts of wonderful stuff I'm not about to dismiss… Fine, all understood, end of thread-digression :-) ** Phil.

Re: [css-d] HTML5 and CSS3

2011-01-19 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: I guess this HTML5 movement will just sit well with the current movement of poor coding practices. I guess I show some of the cynicism of Philip (Ret.). :-) Welcome aboard, Alan :-) -- Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackberry, Blueberry, or any such similar poseurs'

Re: [css-d] Check of family tree layout

2011-01-18 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Overshoots visible at intersection of up and right lines in Seamonkey V2.0.11 @ 1152 x 864 dpi; screen- shot available on request. Philip Taylor Alan Gresley wrote: Hello, After quite a few years with working with this family tree layout, I believe I have accidentally added the

Re: [css-d] [test]: CSS and the HTML5 video element

2011-01-15 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Gabriele Romanato wrote: It took a little bit to find a good converter from FLV to OGV, but finally I did it! The video is 27 mb in size, so you have to be a little bit patient :-) Results are encouraging, especially for future CSS3 enhancements: Seamonkey 2.0.11 under Win/XP PRO;SP3

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

2011-01-13 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ulrike Eikermann wrote: Here is another Firefox Addon (Font Finder), which lets you click on elements and tells you the font being rendered. Also it allows you disable font families, which is useful when testing font stacks. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4415/ What happens

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

2011-01-13 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: And even if you wrap them inside an inner span element, Font Finder reports ASCII as being in use for the inner element, even though the element contains no character representable in the font. Argh : a potentially useful tool, perhaps, but by no means a perfect

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 object 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

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

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

2011-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Rory Bernstein wrote: When I have a series of fonts being called in a font-family rule, how do I know which one is the one being chosen? You don't, unless JavaScript can tell you (see below). On this page: http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ The font should be the Titillium for the

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

2011-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Rich M wrote: Hi, I've revamped some forms in my application, but the display is unexpected in IE8 / Windows 7 for me. I assume it's equally weird on other OS and probably IE versions. Would that be : https://www.moremagicpoints.com/ ? If so, Seamonkey doesn't like its

Re: [css-d] Helping css-d members to get their best from CSS

2011-01-06 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Gabriele Romanato wrote: Hi all. After my last post and all the responses that came after that, I first decided to unsubscribe from css-d, but later I'm back again. Very emotional, very Italian! Welcome back, Gabriele :-) And to add to your list of essentials, please do not forget

Re: [css-d] @fontface

2011-01-06 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Did both you and Rob reduce the window width to 400px as suggested ? Strange things happen when you do that in Seamonkey 2.0.11 under Win/XP;SP3 @ 1152 x 864 Philip Taylor Chetan Crasta wrote: On my computer (ubuntu), there was absolutely no styling of any element on the page. It

Re: [css-d] HTML, CSS, JavaScript: Model-View-Controller

2011-01-05 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Kevin A. Cameron wrote: To be honest this 'discussion' on the merits of this post was a far greater waste of time than the post in question! :P With respect, I disagree. Whilst Gabriele's weblog citations were initially interesting, of late they have been coming so frequently that I was

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

2011-01-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
smallvoiceshout...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, titillium in those two instances. Wouldn't expect it to be different but checked in Safari (win), Chrome, Opera, IE 7,8 and it's present in all. Bill -- Hi, I downloaded and installed Seamonkey 2.02 (Windows). Why not? :) One reason would be because

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

2011-01-03 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Rory Bernstein wrote: Ah. I see the light. OK, I just uploaded the OTF files. Can I now assume that this font will show for most users? Thank you so much for this help, Rory Trailer looks really horrible in Seamonkey 2.0.11 under Windows/XP;SP3 at 1152 x 864, and 3 in page numbers looks

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

2011-01-02 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chetan Crasta wrote: The issues described by Phillip are due to Windows' horrible rendering of @font-face embedded fonts. Windows XP, Vista and 7 do not correctly apply font smoothing to embedded fonts. The issue affects all browsers on the windows platform. Do you have a citation for this,

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

2011-01-02 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: In general, the fonts I've used did/do look pretty good on all Windows OS Do have you have some sample pages that I can compare with the Newton offering, Philippe ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Thierry Koblentz wrote: Imho, using element#id to increase the weight of a rule makes sense, but not when it is used as a hint to help us read and understand rules. I'd think /*comments*/ are better suited for that. I'm afraid I can't agree with that, Thierry : comments indicate only the

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Thierry Koblentz wrote: Well-written css code means *lean* selectors so a well written styles sheet should need more comments than a badly written one, isn't?. With respect, I disagree : you are choosing to interpret well-written as efficient; I interpret well-written as transparent,

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Thierry Koblentz wrote: #mainmenu ul li#last #donations {font-size:1.24em;} What is immediately clear to you in that rule? That within an element of ID mainmenu will occur a UL; within that, there will occur an LI of ID last; and somewhere within that will occur an element of ID donations,

[css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
I don't know if it is just a case of excessive nostalgia, but am I alone in thinking that the W3C CSS service is not what it once was (in terms of Q.A., that is) ? I ask because I have recently thrown a number of putatively CSS documents at it, the most recent being :

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: What do you inspect to happen with embed font? The validator sees your CSS as junk. Why don't you try to validate as CSS3. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flettershop.ehclients.com%2Fcss%2Fall.cssprofile=css3usermedium=allwarning=1lang=en

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: What the validator sees it as is not my point; what I was expecting was a meaningful diagnostic, such as 2 Value Error : font-family Property font-family doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 but exists in CSS level 3 Firstly it treats this as valid CSS2.1. (snip) OK, but

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Before providing feedback, David, I am trying to establish whether there is a real problem or whether there is an error of perception. Which is why it would be nice to try and achieve consensus on this list as to whether or not the validator is behaving aberrantly before raising it with the W3C

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: Property src doesn't exist : url('../fonts/TitilliumText22L005-webfont.eot') url('../fonts/TitilliumText22L005-webfont.eot') Which is almost the same as you were seeking. No it's not : it's totally different. What I am seeking is a mention of this property src that does

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
So : I have simplified Rory's all.css down to the shortest fragment than can generate a diagnostic from the validator : @font-face { font-family:foo; } Here is what the validator says : Property font-family doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 but exists in : foo foo Would other CSS-D

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS Validation Service

2010-12-31 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: Then this is what feedback you can give. Take this string. svg {opacity:0.5} The report back is. Property opacity doesn't exist in CSS level 2.1 but exists in : 0.5 0.5 A little over a week ago, it did say but exists in CSS level 3 Fine, so we agree : the validator

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

2010-12-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Not convinced you are doing your client any favours by using that : I have to zoom in by a factor of four before the glyphs stop breaking up :-( Seamonkey 2.0.11, Win/XP;SP3 @ 1152 x 864. Philip Taylor Rory Bernstein wrote: Hi, I am using a google-hosted embedded web font called

Re: [css-d] google hosted font question

2010-12-30 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Rory Bernstein wrote: Thanks for the screenshots, Phillip. You're very welcome. What I find most disturbing is that the other font (the sans serif one) is not even showing up for you; it is rendering in some other font. (I'm talking about the grey, all caps items in the nav bar). How

Re: [css-d] Three col faq

2010-12-28 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tim Climis wrote: #left { float: left; width: 30%; } #right { float: right; width: 25%; } #center { margin-left: 30%; margin-right: 25%; min-height: 12em; /* min-height does not work in IE6 */ } The problem is surely in the

Re: [css-d] [html4all-conf] hgroup alternativ: h1 abbr=shortlong/h1

2010-12-28 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: When you say 'two or more unrelated effects', then I think we should discuss whether it *is* two unrelated effects. I don't really see that it is. OK, let me try to explain, based on your web page in which you raise this idea, and with some real TOCs to demonstrate

Re: [css-d] Hanging drop cap

2010-12-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Not run-in (see http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/Gabriele/SS-1.jpg); was this intended ? Philip Taylor Gabriele Romanato wrote: I don't know what vacations are: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/12/css-hanging-drop-cap.html

Re: [css-d] Vendor prefixes and validation

2010-12-21 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: It's time now to drop the prefixes. Now if you wish to debate this, then please feel most welcome to subscribe to the CSS WG list. Not that you will stop anything. How are those not involved in the current discussion intended to interpret that last sentence, Alan ? Are

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