Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-21 Thread Ron Koster
At 11:18 PM 1/19/2009 +0100, bruce.som...@web.de wrote: condiional comments are claptrap of the top order. Can you explain what you mean by that? As suggested here, I tried it out (specifically to implement just those IE scrollbar features) and it seems to work just fine. Ron :?

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-19 Thread Bobby Jack
Also, for a variety of different things (like link colors, etc.) I get a bunch of these warnings (not errors)... You have no background-color set (or background-color is set to transparent) but you have set a color. Make sure that cascading of colors keeps the text reasonably legible.

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-19 Thread Rick den Haan
Ron Koster wrote: You have no background-color set (or background-color is set to transparent) but you have set a color. Make sure that cascading of colors keeps the text reasonably legible. How on earth is that a warning? If I set a background color for my links or whatever else, well,

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-19 Thread Ron Koster
At 01:16 PM 1/19/2009 +, Bobby Jack wrote: Which validator are you using? It does sound like a flawed warning - the validator should be intelligent enough to determine that a background image/color will show through (and, thus, 'protect' the color), at least in the trivial case. Actually,

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-19 Thread bruce . somers
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/conditionalcomments -- http://www.gunlaug.no condiional comments are claptrap of the top order. CSS is an interesting concept, but the implementation remains a bad joke! Bruce __

[css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Koster
I know this topic has come up here before (because I've searched the list archives), but I couldn't find what any ultimate recommendation is over what to do. I've got the CSS for one of my sites validating with no errors, except for the styling of the scrollbars (for IE only, of course), i.e.

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ron Koster wrote: I've got the CSS for one of my sites validating with no errors, except for the styling of the scrollbars (for IE only, of course), i.e. scrollbar-track-color, scrollbar-face-color, etc. -- this/these alone are causing the CSS file to not validate. In searching the list

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Koster
At 04:00 PM 1/18/2009 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: If total validity matters and you want to keep the proprietary styles, Conditionally Commented stylesheets for IE only stuff is an option. This approach doesn't make the styles valid, but for most hidden is good enough. Besides: the stuff will not

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ron Koster wrote: Hmm... I haven't got a clue what you're talking about -- never heard of conditionally commented style sheets before. http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/conditionalcomments -- http://www.gunlaug.no __

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

2009-01-18 Thread Ron Koster
At 04:58 PM 1/18/2009 +0100, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Hmm... I haven't got a clue what you're talking about -- never heard of conditionally commented style sheets before. http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/conditionalcomments Oh! Thank you! I was going to just go search it out myself (just