Re: [css-d] CSS depending on JS (was: Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*)

2007-10-17 Thread David Dorward
On 16/10/2007, Kathy Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to recall that at one stage certain versions of Netscape/ Mozilla would not render CSS at all if Javascript was disabled. I have no idea whether that is still the case with some browsers? Netscape 4.x supported JSSS, which lost out

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-17 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi David and Elle, I've made some changes and it's behaving much better, can I impose upon you again to re-look and let me know how it looks to you? URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Also David you said: seems a bit peculiar that the navigation and copyright seem to be more

Re: [css-d] Site Check-- vicki stebbins

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Vicki Stebbins wrote: I've made some changes and it's behaving much better, can I impose upon you again to re-look and let me know how it looks to you? URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Vicki It is behaving much better and no longer dropping the float in IE6.0

[css-d] IE6: div with image in it doesn't get narrower when I make the browser window smaller

2007-10-17 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
Hello, plaese take a look at the following link: http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/Downloads/CSS-Test/blog.htm http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/Downloads/CSS-Test/style.css In the middle column there are several blog entries. The second entry (Zeno Food) contains a larger image. If I narrow the

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-17 Thread david
Alan Gresley wrote: Christian Heilmann wrote: Here is the assumption this article made: a drop down menu should work regardless of input device and stay on the screen when completely expanded without causing scrollbars and thus becoming impossible to reach the last items. Anything wrong

[css-d] Safari and Firefox division

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Lecoat
I've got a situation where firefox (2.0.0.7) and Safari (2.0.4), both Mac, are displaying a particular margin differently. Is there any kind of hack to deliver CSS code specifically to one browser of the other? Thanks -- Rick Lecoat

Re: [css-d] Safari and Firefox division

2007-10-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Rick Lecoat wrote: I've got a situation where firefox (2.0.0.7) and Safari (2.0.4), both Mac, are displaying a particular margin differently. Is there any kind of hack to deliver CSS code specifically to one browser of the other? There was a thread a few days ago

Re: [css-d] Safari and Firefox division

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 17/10/07 (12:57) Philippe said: Which browser/version is correct in your case ? A test-case illustrating the issue might be helpful. Philippe Thanks for the response, Philippe; In the end I worked around the problem -- seemed a better solution than hacking the CSS with breakable filters.

[css-d] Generated content and non‐compliant br owsers

2007-10-17 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
On 2007-10-17, Kenny wrote: I am inserting much content into elements using the 'content' property and the '::before' and '::after' pseudo‐elements. The inserted content is mostly punctuation and other content important to the document presentation. If it's important for understanding

[css-d] reserved words as properties?

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all, Just ran into this while working on an automotive tab. The grafic for it is called auto.gif #topnav a#tn_auto { background: url(/grafx/auto.gif) no-repeat 0 0; } My editor highlighted auto.gif in the background url, due to auto being a reserved word. It seems to work in my

[css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread Gernot Hassenpflug
Hello, This is my first post, a short intro: b. in South Africa, 37, background engineering, working as atmospheric science researcher in Tokyo, interests in LaTeX, web design, and document archiving and long-term compatibility. Using Debian and Ubuntu GNU/linux for work and at home. I've

[css-d] Test in IE 6 and IE 7 please

2007-10-17 Thread Georg Portenkirchner
Hello all! As I have no PC by hand right now, it would be nice to get feedback what are the problems in IE for this site: http://www.theaterjugendring.de/index.php http://www.theaterjugendring.de/wp-content/themes/tjr/style.css Thanks in advance Georg http://portenkirchner.net/ iChat /

Re: [css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread Rafael
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: Hello, This is my first post, a short intro: b. in South Africa, 37, background engineering, working as atmospheric science researcher in Tokyo, interests in LaTeX, web design, and document archiving and long-term compatibility. Using Debian and Ubuntu GNU/linux

Re: [css-d] reserved words as properties?

2007-10-17 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 17 Oct 2007, at 14:32, Brian Cummiskey wrote: Just ran into this while working on an automotive tab. The grafic for it is called auto.gif #topnav a#tn_auto { background: url(/grafx/auto.gif) no-repeat 0 0; } My editor highlighted auto.gif in the background url, due to auto

Re: [css-d] Test in IE 6 and IE 7 please

2007-10-17 Thread Ray Leventhal
Georg Portenkirchner wrote: Hello all! As I have no PC by hand right now, it would be nice to get feedback what are the problems in IE for this site: http://www.theaterjugendring.de/index.php http://www.theaterjugendring.de/wp-content/themes/tjr/style.css Georg, I've taken

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-17 Thread Rafael
Alan Gresley wrote: I have been following this thread with particular interest but staying in the background while it bounded in and out of holy war territory. Keyboard Accessibility with CSS is possible by using the :focus pseudo selector but at this time, only Firefox and Mozilla (maybe

Re: [css-d] reserved words as properties?

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: It's a bug in your editor; even IE doesn't have _that_ degree of a problem parsing CSS. Thanks Nick. I'm using (a surely out-dated version of) Edit Plus. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread Gernot Hassenpflug
On 10/17/07, Rafael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: I've been trying to improve my own webpage design (header, 3 columns, footer) to cater for gecko, khtml and IE6/7 rendering /../ What I am worried about is the following: how can one design CSS styles that resize the

[css-d] Layout problem

2007-10-17 Thread Kathryn Crutcher
Still working out a few problems with a new site. I've posted a couple of questions to the list with great results. Now, the client is insisting that a Contact button be placed so that it straddles a couple of borders. If the layout was left aligned, I could position it absolutely but the design

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Dorman
On 10/16/07, Alan Gresley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The normal hover functioning of the menu works in most browsers. Any test with the Khtml or Webkit browser engines would be appreciated. Regarding full accessibility at this point in time, I say that this menu is currently one of the best

Re: [css-d] Test in IE 6 and IE 7 please

2007-10-17 Thread Ray Leventhal
Apologies to all for the multi-post. seems my mail server hiccuped at just the wrong moment -- Non scholae sed vitae discimus __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Layout problem

2007-10-17 Thread Rafael
Well, the good news is that a margin seems to work just fine, so if you add 'id=contact' to that image, and the next CSS it should be positioned more or less where you want it... #contact { margin-right: 10px; margin-top: -10px; } Now the bad news... yes, IE. There is a

Re: [css-d] Test in IE 6 and IE 7 please

2007-10-17 Thread Georg Portenkirchner
Thank you everybody who sent me screenshots. After some changes finally the site seems to work in Safari, Firefox and Opera on a Mac. But Internet Explorer (6 and 7) still gives me headaches. Maybe someone has a hint for me? Thank you! http://www.theaterjugendring.de/index.php

Re: [css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: What I am worried about is the following: how can one design CSS styles that resize the block elements when the user decided to increase the font (of the inline text)? At some point, all the fine examples I've found (e.g.,

Re: [css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread Rafael
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: [...] exchanging video clips of sites as we worked, and showing off the IE7 zoom. Very impressive indeed. I haven't updated Opera but will do so. Not sure if this is what you mean, but... unless you have a really old version of Opera, it already has the zooming

Re: [css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rafael wrote: [...] Some people set the images size in relative units too to get a better scaling effect, just like zooming. Right, I didn't think about this possibility. Thanks a lot once again. Gernot Me neither, so I was a little disappointed of myself when I learned about it in

Re: [css-d] Drop down menu and float problems

2007-10-17 Thread Richard Grevers
On 10/16/07, Lyn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first being a drop down menu I have developed won't display the appropriate links. I seems the the drop down works but the links won't appear. the second problem is I'm trying to float six different div elements side to side but after

[css-d] table cell size problem.

2007-10-17 Thread sandy
I dont have too much experience in tables so I guess I am missing something. please see my well Plate Map below. My table is where the black border starts. http://www.sandygonzales.com/cpc/user_controls.php My table is set to a width of 374px and height of 207px with border collapsing turned

[css-d] IE6 - preserving image-ratio and simulation max-width for images

2007-10-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
1: Has anyone ever been able to design their way around IE6 faulty preservation of height/width ratio for images scaled with only one dimension - 'width: some value' ? This is a first load and reload problem with large images on somewhat slow connections, as IE6 corrects its errant ways if we

[css-d] Odd Safari display problem...

2007-10-17 Thread Matt
Check out the navigation and RSS link on the top right part of this page: http://www.scienceprogress.org/ Everything lines up fine in Firefox and IE-Win, but in Safari, the RSS icon drops below the navigation stuff and floats to the left... Any idea why?

[css-d] IE - border around image erroneously displaying

2007-10-17 Thread Anne E . Shroeder
http://www.ddiv.com/clients/voa/final_builds/chinese_news.html The problem area is on the right hand side, where the Tabbed navigation items are. The two buttons are orange and grey, side by side. They are appearing irregularly in Win 2000/XP on IE6.0 and IE5.5 with a blue border on either

Re: [css-d] Odd Safari display problem...

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Matt wrote: Check out the navigation and RSS link on the top right part of this page: http://www.scienceprogress.org/ Everything lines up fine in Firefox and IE-Win, but in Safari, the RSS icon drops below the navigation stuff and floats to the left... Any idea why? Mac OS X 10.4.10

Re: [css-d] Odd Safari display problem...

2007-10-17 Thread Kit Grose
On 18/10/2007, at 10:18 AM, David Laakso wrote: Matt wrote: Check out the navigation and RSS link on the top right part of this page: http://www.scienceprogress.org/ Everything lines up fine in Firefox and IE-Win, but in Safari, the RSS icon drops below the navigation stuff and floats to

Re: [css-d] Odd Safari display problem...

2007-10-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 18, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Matt wrote: Check out the navigation and RSS link on the top right part of this page: http://www.scienceprogress.org/ Everything lines up fine in Firefox and IE-Win, but in Safari, the RSS icon drops below the navigation stuff and floats to the left...

Re: [css-d] IE - border around image erroneously displaying

2007-10-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Anne E . Shroeder wrote: http://www.ddiv.com/clients/voa/final_builds/chinese_news.html The problem area is on the right hand side, where the Tabbed navigation items are. The two buttons are orange and grey, side by side. They are appearing irregularly in Win 2000/XP on IE6.0 and IE5.5