Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-07 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:23:48 -0400, Benjamin Rossen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I stand corrected. Thanks. Benjamin Rossen. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-07 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata wrote: > body {font-family: Geneva, 'nimbus sans', 'luxi sans', Arial, sans serif;} Can't believe I did that. The reason I replied in the first place was to fix the fallback by including the required hyphen: body {font-family: Geneva, 'nimbus sans', 'luxi sans', Arial, sans-serif;} -

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 7 Oct 2005, at 10:52 am, Felix Miata wrote: NAICT, Mac users generally prefer Geneva to Helvetica, so better would be: body {font-family: Geneva, 'nimbus sans', 'luxi sans', Arial, sans serif;} If you care about Mac OS X users, you might want to use body {'lucida grande', 'nimbus sans', '

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Rossen
> Benjamin Rossen wrote: > >> Tom Livingston wrote: > >>> body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} > >> As far as I have been able to tell, all Linux systems have >> an Open TT font named Sans, > > Sans is nothing but an alias for the OS-supplied (generic) sans-serif, > which is the d

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Rossen
>> From: Benjamin Rossen >>> >>> body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} >> >> Also, some browsers will not understand the generic term 'sans >> serif' with a capital letter. This will give you the best >> result on the widest range of platforms. >> >> body { font-family: Arial, Sans, H

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Felix Miata
Benjamin Rossen wrote: > Tom Livingston wrote: > > body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} > You can improve this. In a Windows machine you will get Arial font, and in a > Mac you will get the similar Helvetica. However, your viewers using Linux > are likely to get the bit-mapped Helve

RE: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Williams
> From: Benjamin Rossen > > > > body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} > > Also, some browsers will not understand the generic term 'sans > serif' with a capital letter. This will give you the best > result on the widest range of platforms. > > body { font-family: Arial, Sans, Helvetic

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Trevor Boult wrote: http://www.tboult.co.uk Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? seems rather big, is their a way to be more efficient with my code? 17k isn't necessarily too big, if it covers a complex site. Looks a bit large in your case though. I think below 6k should do fine for your l

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Rossen
> > body{font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif ;} > You can improve this. In a Windows machine you will get Arial font, and in a Mac you will get the similar Helvetica. However, your viewers using Linux are likely to get the bit-mapped Helvetica font. This font is required for system components

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Sturgess
you could always take the inheritance a step further and use: * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } place that at the top of your stylesheet and it will set margin and padding to 0 on all elements. thus no need to repeat it throughout. > you could take better advantage of the inheritance - child ele

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Tom Livingston
On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:56:57 -0400, Trevor Boult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? Not really. Although impressively neat and tidy, you could do with some efficiencies. Things like font-family. Unless changing font families, you can specify it once on the

Re: [css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Dan_MailLists
Trevor Boult said - So I decided to give it a go on my homepage http://www.tboult.co.uk Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? seems rather big, is their a way to be more efficient with my code? Hi Trevor, you could take better advantage of the inheritance - child elements inheriting the fo

[css-d] First full CSS site

2005-10-06 Thread Trevor Boult
Hi All, I've been developing sites in tables etc for years and decided I was "out of date" with how the web was changing. So I decided to give it a go on my homepage http://www.tboult.co.uk Should I really have a 17k stylesheet? seems rather big, is their a way to be more efficient with my cod