Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-06-01 Thread David Laakso
snak detek+0r wrote: Nothing silly about that page in my humble opinion. The page is short because there is not much content on it. If you want it, and other pages that may have little content, to appear deeper-- get creative and add a generic image beneath the text of same. sigh.

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread snak detek+0r
yes yes, i know. but that will break my background image. that's what i was trying to say before: the only reason i used overflow:hidden is that it somehow made the bg work (what i'm talking about visually is that the main/middle section of that vertical silver divider line). i see now that

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread David Laakso
snak detek+0r wrote: yes yes, i know. but that will break my background image. that's what i was trying to say before: the only reason i used overflow:hidden is that it somehow made the bg work (what i'm talking about visually is that the main/middle section of that vertical silver divider

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread David Laakso
snak detek+0r wrote: trimmed actually, since i got to check this on ie6 today, i did notice a huge problem (perhaps better asked under separate cover; not sure?). the problem can be easily seen here: http://tinyurl.com/nd27cr IE/6 does not support min-height and is honoring

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread snak detek+0r
That's good to know. I guess it's not surprising; it is, however, rather disconcerting. My basic instinct is to set the base at 10px, simply so i can work in units that I'm used to. If everything is multiples of ten it makes ems a much more intelligible unit too. I guess I've been going about

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread snak detek+0r
David Laakso wrote: ... IE/6 does not support min-height and is honoring height:500px; The correction is to let content determine height. Compliant browsers, and IE/7 will all go along with this; and, IE/6 will follow suit. #content { border: 1px solid red (4 position only--delete);

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/05/31 18:14 (GMT-0400) snak detek+0r composed: My basic instinct is to set the base at 10px, simply so i can work in units that I'm used to. If everything is multiples of ten it makes ems a much more intelligible unit too 10 does seem easy on the surface, as most of us are

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread snak detek+0r
Index and all inside pages: Neither Opera or The IEs are capable of scaling line-height set in pixels. Try a raw number for line-height. wow. didn't even know i could do that. the w3 site doesn't even mention that you can use px, but everyone and their mom seem to, including ALA, some

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread David Laakso
snak detek+0r wrote: Oh, I understand what you're suggesting now. And yes, that doesn't interfere with my tiling background. But it does end up with certain pages looking a little silly: http://tinyurl.com/mfyyuf Nothing silly about that page in my humble opinion. The page is short

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/05/31 19:19 (GMT-0400) snak detek+0r composed: Since I'm still trying to get my mind around this (and the w3 rules are quite hard to parse IMO), I was just playing around with my own styles when I noticed that the original base line-height value for this project was set using %:

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
snak detek+0r wrote: Index and all inside pages: Neither Opera or The IEs are capable of scaling line-height set in pixels. Try a raw number for line-height. wow. didn't even know i could do that. the w3 site doesn't even mention that you can use px, but everyone and their mom seem to,

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-30 Thread David Hucklesby
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: snak detek+0r wrote: [...] Index: Minimum font-size 24px breaks the h-nav and does a little number on the text in right column. i'm not sure what you mean by this? i don't have any fonts nearly that big. and i also couldn't see what you're talking about in

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/05/30 09:45 (GMT-0700) David Hucklesby composed: FWIW - I have set a modest minimum font size of 12px on my browsers. My primary browser, Opera 9.6 on Mac, scales up _all_ fonts on pages that have the seemingly popular 62.5% font-size set on BODY. It amazes me how many pages break

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Henderson
snak detek+0r wrote: Subject: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ? there are two different layouts, front page http://tinyurl.com/pxgydd and all other pages http://tinyurl.com/msyk76 fingers crossed, thanks! No amount of finger-crossing will solve the 404s on both style sheet

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-29 Thread snak detek+0r
David, thanks for your gracious feedback. unfortunately, i'm not sure if i understand much of what you had to say (my comprehension stats are usually pretty decent too); explanation below. also, at the bottom is a newly discovered problem its the sort of thing i can't reason, but that i know

[css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-28 Thread snak detek+0r
there are two different layouts, front page http://tinyurl.com/pxgydd and all other pages http://tinyurl.com/msyk76 fingers crossed, thanks! __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-28 Thread David Laakso
snak detek+0r wrote: there are two different layouts, front page http://tinyurl.com/pxgydd and all other pages http://tinyurl.com/msyk76 Index and all inside pages: Neither Opera or The IEs are capable of scaling line-height set in pixels. Try a raw number for line-height. Index: