Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-30 Thread Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator
enough. -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Gmail Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 10:52 AM To: Tom Livingston Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:17 PM

[css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Brian M. Curran
Hi! Does anyone avoid the i tag because of browser compatibility issues, or is it a non-issue? I think some of the old browsers have problems with it, correct? Thanks! Brian __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Brian M. Curran
Hmmm... My website has three CSS columns. I thought I recalled an incident, when I was first building it a couple of years ago, that when I used the i it caused one of my columns to drop. ...Ring a bell with anyone?? It's been a while, so I could be wrong. I'm a hit-and-run CSS guy, because my

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread David Laakso
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Hmmm... My website has three CSS columns. I thought I recalled an incident, when I was first building it a couple of years ago, that when I used the i it caused one of my columns to drop. ...Ring a bell with

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Tom Livingston
I believe the i tag is fine to use. Never heard of any issues. It's been around for ever... Sent from iOS 5 On Apr 28, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Hi! Does anyone avoid the i tag because of browser compatibility issues, or is it a non-issue? I

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-04-28 20:38, David Laakso wrote: It may be that the page dropped the float because IE6 and lower have problems in computing/honoring the width of block elements that contain italic text. There are many potential formatting problems with text appearing in an italic font (or in a slanted

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Brian M. Curran
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Hmmm... My website has three CSS columns. I thought I recalled an incident, when I was first building it a couple of years ago, that when I used the i it caused one of my columns to drop. ...Ring a bell with

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Brian M. Curran
2012-04-28 20:38, David Laakso wrote: It may be that the page dropped the float because IE6 and lower have problems in computing/honoring the width of block elements that contain italic text. From: Jukka K. Korpela There are many potential formatting problems with text appearing in an

Re: [css-d] Use of the i tag

2012-04-28 Thread Gmail
On Apr 28, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the i tag is fine to use. Never heard of any issues. It's been around for ever... Sent from iOS 5 On Apr 28, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Hi! Does anyone avoid