Re: [css-d] Testing

2013-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
OK thanks everyone. Sorry for the noise. I had bothered Mr. Meyer enough about this and was wondering if it was just me. Seems ok now! ;-) On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Mike Zeidler wrote: > Yes :-) > > On Aug 12, 2013 1:47 PM, "Tom Livingston" wrote: >> >> Is this getting through? Haven't go

Re: [css-d] Testing

2013-08-12 Thread Theresa Jennings
I'd received nothing since July 26. I even contacted the moderators to see if I'd gotten dropped from the list somehow. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Chris Rockwell wrote: > Received. > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> Is this getting thr

Re: [css-d] Testing

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Rockwell
Received. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: > Is this getting through? Haven't gotten anything from the list since > July 10th... > > -- > > Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | > ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com > _

[css-d] Testing

2013-08-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Is this getting through? Haven't gotten anything from the list since July 10th... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS on iPhone not going well

2011-07-04 Thread David Laakso
On 7/3/11 10:40 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: I finally decided to fork over the cash for a smart phone; an iPhone 3GS. Since then I've been using it to make sure my site looks OK on a mobile device. Lots of bugs, despite the fact that my starting point was CSS provided by David L.: David L? That

[css-d] Testing CSS on iPhone not going well

2011-07-03 Thread Keith Purtell
I finally decided to fork over the cash for a smart phone; an iPhone 3GS. Since then I've been using it to make sure my site looks OK on a mobile device. Lots of bugs, despite the fact that my starting point was CSS provided by David L.: 1-I had to add a meta tag in each page header just to bring

Re: [css-d] testing keyboard accessibility

2010-04-27 Thread jeffrey morin
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM, David Laakso wrote: > jeffrey morin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I want to test more keyboard accessibilty and I am trying to do this in >> Firefox 3.6. For Safari using the tab key will at least cycle through all >> the links and form elements but Firefox only goes to

Re: [css-d] testing keyboard accessibility

2010-04-27 Thread David Laakso
jeffrey morin wrote: > Hi, > > I want to test more keyboard accessibilty and I am trying to do this in > Firefox 3.6. For Safari using the tab key will at least cycle through all > the links and form elements but Firefox only goes to forms and skips > everything else. I tried the cursor to navigate

[css-d] testing keyboard accessibility

2010-04-27 Thread jeffrey morin
Hi, I want to test more keyboard accessibilty and I am trying to do this in Firefox 3.6. For Safari using the tab key will at least cycle through all the links and form elements but Firefox only goes to forms and skips everything else. I tried the cursor to navigate the page option but it isn't re

Re: [css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-04 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Testing in IE is perhaps the hardest thing on the WWW. If you're testing in IE7-, you _must_ know this document: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html Other resources: www.positioniseverything.net www.brunildo.org/test www.gtalbot.org www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ HTH -- http://www.c

Re: [css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-04 Thread lodewijk andré de la porte
If you have any trouble with IE make sure you have the proper doctype and force it into standards compliant mode. greetings, Lodewijk 2009/9/4 Steve Axthelm > On 2009-09-03 jeffrey morin wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Ellen Heitman >wrote: > > > >>My website looks fine in Safari a

Re: [css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-03 Thread Steve Axthelm
On 2009-09-03 jeffrey morin wrote: >On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Ellen Heitman wrote: > >>My website looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but I am still having some >>alignment and other issues in Internet Explorer. I work on a Mac and don't >>have access to a PC so it's been really hard for me t

Re: [css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-03 Thread David Laakso
Ellen Heitman wrote: > My website looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but I am still having some > alignment and other issues in Internet Explorer. I work on a Mac and don't > have access to a PC so it's been really hard for me to troubleshoot this > problem. > Any tips? re: css

Re: [css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-03 Thread Bob Meetin
jeffrey morin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Ellen Heitman wrote: > >> My website looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but I am still having some >> alignment and other issues in Internet Explorer. I work on a Mac and don't >> have access to a PC so it's been really hard for me to troubl

Re: [css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-03 Thread jeffrey morin
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Ellen Heitman wrote: > My website looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but I am still having some > alignment and other issues in Internet Explorer. I work on a Mac and don't > have access to a PC so it's been really hard for me to troubleshoot this > problem. Any tip

[css-d] Testing in IE

2009-09-03 Thread Ellen Heitman
My website looks fine in Safari and Firefox, but I am still having some alignment and other issues in Internet Explorer. I work on a Mac and don't have access to a PC so it's been really hard for me to troubleshoot this problem. Any tips? Any programs that let you view a site in IE on a Mac? Thanks

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-06 Thread david
mx.css...@googlemail.com wrote: The FF plug-in is the Web Developer Toolbar, although some swear by Firebug. Small change in the order of items below (I moved #3 in the quote below). Make sure the pages work without CSS before you start adding CSS to the mix! > In terms of testing: > > 3) Dis

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-06 Thread mx . cssdee
If you are using FF2 or 3 there is a useful addon called "Web Developer" which you should lookup. It also included a "resize" menu so you can resize the browser to whatever required resolution. (URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60) Another addon mainly for accessibility is a

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-05 Thread David McGlone
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 5:42:43 pm David Laakso wrote: > David McGlone wrote: > > It bugs me to no end when positioning something and it isn't exact in > > none of the browsers, some a little off, some way off. > > Forgot-- > > Code to compliant browsers, among them-- Opera, Firefox, Safari.

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-05 Thread david
David Laakso wrote: > --There's no such thing as too much testing... > > Usability, functionality, accessibility and the accommodation of user > preferences, whatever they may be, are more reasonable reality goals > than pixel-perfect cross-browser rendering... I also use a FF extension called

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-04 Thread David Laakso
David McGlone wrote: > It bugs me to no end when positioning something and it isn't exact in none of > the browsers, some a little off, some way off. > Forgot-- Code to compliant browsers, among them-- Opera, Firefox, Safari. and SeaMonkey. Fix IE 6/7. Two good sites for coping with "fixing"

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-04 Thread David Laakso
David McGlone wrote: > What I'm wondering is how everyone tests their layouts when not every browser > and resolution is available. I'm running Kubuntu with Firefox and Opera > running on 1440x900 resolution and I also check on my laptop running Win XP > with IE V. 6.0. with the same 1440x900 re

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-04 Thread Jenn Mears-Nickerson
Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 4:10 PM To: David McGlone Subject: Re: [css-d] testing layouts David McGlone wrote: > What I'm wondering is how everyone tests their layouts when not every > browser and resolution is available. Back when I had fewer machines and screens,

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David McGlone wrote: > What I'm wondering is how everyone tests their layouts when not every > browser and resolution is available. Back when I had fewer machines and screens, I used to set Opera to show the exact window dimensions in its title-line, adjust window size on it to various "often us

Re: [css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd David McGlone: > Hi everyone, > > I have a question about techniques. > > What I'm wondering is how everyone tests their layouts when not every browser > and resolution is available. I'm running Kubuntu with Firefox and Opera > running on 1440x900 resolution and I also check on my l

[css-d] testing layouts

2009-02-04 Thread David McGlone
Hi everyone, I have a question about techniques. What I'm wondering is how everyone tests their layouts when not every browser and resolution is available. I'm running Kubuntu with Firefox and Opera running on 1440x900 resolution and I also check on my laptop running Win XP with IE V. 6.0. wi

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nancy Johnson wrote: > Doesn't it also somewhat depend on your user base? If you have a > general user base than this is fine. Technical testing across the board of major browsers/OSes is always safest, since one can pretty much cover all bases this way. Specializing in user bases or whatever, h

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-22 Thread Nancy Johnson
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Borka wrote: >> When testing CSS in browsers, what ones should be tested and in what order? >> I need to narrow down the list so I don't end up testing in 30+ different >> ones. Also what OS are these browsers

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Andy Borka wrote: > When testing CSS in browsers, what ones should be tested and in what order? > I need to narrow down the list so I don't end up testing in 30+ different > ones. Also what OS are these browsers in. I heard that I should test with > the following in order: > > 1. Safari 3.x (MAC O

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-21 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > All browsers have user-options, and some users may intentionally or > unintentionally set/use a few of those, like font-resizing etc. It is > always good to figure out and optimize what your creations can handle, > before end-users run into serious problems because your crea

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Borka wrote: > When testing CSS in browsers, what ones should be tested and in what > order? Your list is as good as any, and generally speaking you can run your creations through the latest versions of the good ones in any order, and finish with the relevant IE/win versions. However, if yo

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-20 Thread Jeff Reid
From: "Andy Borka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:02 PM Subject: [css-d] Testing css in browsers > When testing CSS in browsers, what ones should be tested and in what > order? > I need to narrow down the list so I don't end up testing

[css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-20 Thread Andy Borka
When testing CSS in browsers, what ones should be tested and in what order? I need to narrow down the list so I don't end up testing in 30+ different ones. Also what OS are these browsers in. I heard that I should test with the following in order: 1. Safari 3.x (MAC OSX) 2. Firefox 3.x (Windows) 3

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-25 Thread bruce . somers
Ah but caution. If you change your resolution in Windows, it will foul up your desktop arrangement. It will not be restorted if you again select your original rsolution. Bruce > Another trick, which you may have already thought of, is to just play with > the resolution on your own screen...

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-25 Thread Lisa Clarke
Thanks, everyone, for your help! Lisa Kevin Doyle wrote: > > There are also a couple sites out there that will run your sites at > different resolutions and > > then send you screen captures of it... unfortunately, I can't > remember the URL for those sites. > > Can anyone help me out? > >

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-25 Thread Kevin Doyle
> There are also a couple sites out there that will run your sites at > different resolutions and > then send you screen captures of it... unfortunately, I can't remember the > URL for those sites. > Can anyone help me out? > I've come across these, but not tried them myself: http://brows

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-25 Thread jft
> There are also a couple sites out there that will run your sites at > different resolutions and > then send you screen captures of it... unfortunately, I can't remember the > URL for those sites. > Can anyone help me out? > I've come across these, but not tried them myself: http://brow

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-25 Thread Kevin Doyle
My screen resolution is 1024x768, and the content of my site fits that window nicely. I want to test how it will behave on a monitor with higher resolution. Hi Lisa, Another trick, which you may have already thought of, is to just play with the resolution on your own screen... assuming that

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-22 Thread David Laakso
Polka Dot Cottage Admin wrote: > > > My screen resolution is 1024x768, and the content of my site fits that > window nicely. I want to test how it will behave on a monitor with higher > resolution. > > Lisa > > Viewing your page in Opera at zoom 90%, 80%, 50% will give you an idea of how it

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-22 Thread Jim Davis
Here is what the left side looks like on my 1928 wide monitor. http://www.jimdavis.org/polkadot.jpg You may want to consider centering the header content for viewing on wider monitors. Jim www.jimdavis.org On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Polka Dot Cottage Admin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-22 Thread Keith DiSarno
My answer: If you don't mind the wait, http://browsershots.org/ will give you some options and be able to actually see how it renders. My 2 cents... I am with you Lisa, I like to see how things look at different resolutions and such. Not saying the previous information was wrong at all, but some

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/08/22 18:20 (GMT-0400) Polka Dot Cottage Admin apparently typed: > I'm new to the list, and relatively new to CSS, as well. I've taught myself > quite a bit in the course of designing my website, but there is one problem > I haven't been able to overcome: > My screen resolution is 1024x7

Re: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Polka Dot Cottage Admin > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:21 PM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions > >

[css-d] Testing CSS for higher screen resolutions

2008-08-22 Thread Polka Dot Cottage Admin
Hi. I'm new to the list, and relatively new to CSS, as well. I've taught myself quite a bit in the course of designing my website, but there is one problem I haven't been able to overcome: My screen resolution is 1024x768, and the content of my site fits that window nicely. I want to test how i

Re: [css-d] Testing browsers

2008-03-29 Thread tmesa.mesadesignhouse
And browsercam is the only way you're going to get IE5 for the Mac to work, since Microsoft stopped supporting it in December of 2005, removed IE Mac from their downloads section on January 31, 2006, and told Macintosh users in 2006 (2 years ago!) to *stop using Internet Explorer on their M

Re: [css-d] Testing browsers

2008-03-28 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
You can use http://browsershots.org for having screenshots of your website generated of all the browsers you're interested in. Regards, Christian *Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 · USt.Id. DE173211737

[css-d] Testing browsers

2008-03-28 Thread Cristian Palmas
Hi Folks, I'd like to know how did you organize yuorselves for testing site in different browsers. I mean, I installed on XP Safari 3.1, FF2 and IE6 while on Kubuntu 7.10 linux I installed Opera 7, FF2, Lynx and Konqueror. Since it is not so practical to have a lot of browser installed I wish to

[css-d] Testing

2007-05-10 Thread ed good
Testing - Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listin

Re: [css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-26 Thread Cliff Pruitt
Gee Dean... thanks for making the new guy jealous. My fiance isn't going to be happy about you tempting me to blow our honeymoon cash on an upgrade of my current Powerbook. ;-) - Cliff On Jul 26, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Dean Champeau wrote: > Now that I think about it, I might have an ideal testing

Re: [css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-26 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Tom Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you mean what you have is xp ie6, you could download standalone >> versions of ie501sp2_nt.zip and ie55sp2_nt.zip from here >> http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone. >> > >Be advised that conditional comments get messed up, because the syste

Re: [css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On 7/26/06, Dean Champeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Intel-based Macintosh running Parallel Workstations YEAH BABY! -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-26 Thread Dean Champeau
Now that I think about it, I might have an ideal testing environment, because I use an Intel-based Macintosh running Parallel Workstations, which allows me to set up multiple "virtual machines" running as distinct computers with their own OS etc. So I could have setup virtual machines for I

Re: [css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-26 Thread Tom Livingston
On 7/26/06, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dean Champeau wrote: > > Hello. > If you mean what you have is xp ie6, you could download standalone > versions of ie501sp2_nt.zip and ie55sp2_nt.zip from here > http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/standalone. > Be advised that conditional com

Re: [css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-25 Thread David Laakso
Dean Champeau wrote: > Hello. > > I checked the archives briefly, but was unable to find an answer to > this... > > If all I have is IE 6 and I want to check compatibility with IE 5 and > below, can I simply remove (or comment out) the DOCTYPE declaration, > then run the page through IE 6 to

[css-d] Testing for IE 5 and Below

2006-07-25 Thread Dean Champeau
Hello. I checked the archives briefly, but was unable to find an answer to this... If all I have is IE 6 and I want to check compatibility with IE 5 and below, can I simply remove (or comment out) the DOCTYPE declaration, then run the page through IE 6 to "simulate" what would happen in the

[css-d] testing a :print style

2006-05-17 Thread Bill Walton
I've just begun trying to use a seperate style sheet for printed output and I wonder... Are there significant differences between the result of CSS styles for one printer vs. another (as there are in from one browser vs. another)? Is there a reliable way, short of hardcopy, to see what a :print

[css-d] Testing

2006-05-02 Thread Terje Moe
Testing __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- ht

[css-d] Testing Opera's ugly dotted border's

2006-04-11 Thread francky
Hi dear list members, I got a question about the dotted border style in Opera. Sometimes the horizontal dots have more space between them as expected, and sometimes the some vertical dotterd borders: "Why and what to do?" I didn't know the answer, so I took a look at our incutio Wiki

Re: [css-d] testing hand held style sheets

2005-09-08 Thread david
wendy wrote: Other than using opera can anyone suggest a PDF emulator I could download to test a hand held device stylesheet for a site? also does anyone know whether most hand held devices have javascript enabled or not? ta Wendy You can see if you can track down a copy of POSE (the Palm OS E

Re: [css-d] testing hand held style sheets

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Debban
I have used the Microsoft Pocket Emulator included in the Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 SDK. This is a free download from Microsoft and includes Pocket IE. Nokia also has free emulators for their phone browsers. IIRC Pocket IE has the DOM and Javascript support of IE3, the xml engine from IE5, and css

[css-d] testing hand held style sheets

2005-09-07 Thread wendy
Other than using opera can anyone suggest a PDF emulator I could download to test a hand held device stylesheet for a site? also does anyone know whether most hand held devices have javascript enabled or not? ta Wendy __ css-di

Re: [css-d] Testing: Win inside OsX...

2005-07-21 Thread Ben Curtis
On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Oliver Michalak wrote: Rendering in standalone installs is often OK, but with VPC you install exactly what your visitors use. I know of no other way short of massive partitioning of the drive to have one computer host so many accurate test systems. VMware

Re: [css-d] Testing: Win inside OsX...

2005-07-21 Thread Guillaume
Ben, thank you for such a detailed report / explanation of the use of Vpc... Added some comments below... That's the prep work, here's the CSS pay-off: certain technologies are shared in the Windows system, and so installing even "standalone" versions of Internet Explorer on the same Windows

Re: [css-d] Testing: Win inside OsX...

2005-07-21 Thread Ben Curtis
On Jul 21, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Adam Kuehn wrote: I'd like to use a Windows emulator, Virtual Pc on Mac OsX, to resolve this issues... Could someone just give me some feedback about using this software: does it exactly manage browsers as a Pc would...Will the browser render engines run the st

Re: [css-d] Testing: Win inside OsX...

2005-07-21 Thread Adam Kuehn
Guillaume wrote: I'd like to use a Windows emulator, Virtual Pc on Mac OsX, to resolve this issues... Could someone just give me some feedback about using this software: does it exactly manage browsers as a Pc would...Will the browser render engines run the styles in this emulator as they wou

[css-d] Testing: Win inside OsX...

2005-07-21 Thread Guillaume
Hi list, I would like to increase the Css tests i can run and manage cross-browser / cross platforms Css issues... I'd like to use a Windows emulator, Virtual Pc on Mac OsX, to resolve this issues... Could someone just give me some feedback about using this software: does it exactly manage br

[css-d] testing NS

2005-05-18 Thread Sarah Atkinson
Just seeing if I can post to the list. Last 2 post have not shone up. Sarah __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org