Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Alex Robinson wrote: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Can

[css-d] IE8 toggling the wrong tab - first one only

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Hi Everyone If you have two or more tabs open, IE8 will only toggle different modes for the first tab, regardless of if your viewing the second or third tab along. Alan http://css-class.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
Alex Robinson wrote: 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. div#parsing { ... background: #ffcc00; backg\round: #006633; ... Real IE5 colours the div yellow, emulated IE5 gets carried away and repaints it green. ... So it looks

Re: [css-d] Targeting IE8 (was: IE8 is better but still slightly broken)

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Mark Richards wrote: I'm curious as to why you're targeting various IEs with hacks when conditional comments let you do the same thing? Especially if the hacks are used to import external sheets in the first place, it seems to me it's easier to just use CCs to load browser-specific fix-up

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Alex Robinson wrote: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Can

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:50:06 + Alex Robinson wrote: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: IE8 in IE5 quirks mode will not honor any escapes in the background property. http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/8/escapes2.htm Maybe they just chose to support particular properties? As I wrote in another message, I believe this is

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Bruno Fassino wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: IE8 in IE5 quirks mode will not honor any escapes in the background property. http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/8/escapes2.htm Maybe they just chose to support particular properties? As I wrote in

[css-d] IE8 non scrollable overflow auto on pre

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Hi Everyone There is a IE8 bug with overflow on floated elements. On this page. http://css-class.com/test/css/overflow/floated-overflow-length-with-inner-box-float.htm Enter the page in IE8 mode, either of these can happen. 1. If the box is scrollable the scroll slowly right and then slowly

[css-d] IE/Win Calculated offset bug - left:auto

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Hi Everyone This is may be important for anyone using a Suckerfish menu or left:auto. All IE/Win versions including IE8 in some case can not properly offset auto. IE8 had indeed fixed the Recalculated Offset bug (that's why the IE team kept of visiting that page).

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: Bruno Fassino wrote: As I wrote in another message, I believe this is intended. Quirks mode in IE6, IE7 has always worked as such, i.e. NO emulation of that (and others) E5 parsing problems. All course, never though about that.

Re: [css-d] Column floating below sidebar on IE6

2008-03-08 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 6 Mar 2008, at 19:23, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: On 6 Mar 2008, at 16:52, Ernie Finlay wrote: In my IE6,everything looks OK. Content is on the left and sidebar is on the right,starting out at the same level. I was testing it at school, at 800x600. Also, playing around more makes me

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Bruno Fassino wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: Bruno Fassino wrote: As I wrote in another message, I believe this is intended. Quirks mode in IE6, IE7 has always worked as such, i.e. NO emulation of that (and others) E5 parsing problems. All

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread Phoebe Taylor
-gets to work- I have a question on the .footer validation. I have before used a background color, when designing in HTML in a section or a page underneath a background graphic, just in case the graphic failed to load, then the text would still be visible. Is that improper to do in css?

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Phoebe Taylor wrote: -gets to work- I have a question on the .footer validation. I have before used a background color, when designing in HTML in a section or a page underneath a background graphic, just in case the graphic failed to load, then the text would still be visible. Is that

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua Enter the page in IE8 mode. The last test will show the blue and green line shorter. In IE7 strict mode all is well. In IE5 quirks mode all test shows the blue and green line shorter. Ok. And

[css-d] A weird CSS problem in IE7

2008-03-08 Thread Usamah M. Ali
Hello all, I'm having a weird CSS behavior that is happening only in IE7. It's a box that having rounded corners on both top-left bottom-left sides. The problem is that one of the rounded corner images always jumps off its original place and spans into the content area. Here's a screenshot of

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Wow, learning a lot here. Now things validate. I simplified all the background tags, and I'll go through and attempt the font tags later today. (have to go out this afternoon). Thank you, Mr. Lasko. :) __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Phoebe Taylor wrote: Wow, learning a lot here. Now things validate. re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ Awesome. Interested in raising the bar another notch? Best, ~dL PS Ain't no mister hereabout. Just another bozo on the back of the bus. -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for

2008-03-08 Thread Tim Palac
It's all about the user data, baby! We've got no people using anything lower than IE6, so I test IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and that's about it. However, I'd really like to know how to test for those several WebTV users we have visit our site every month (I didn't even know it still

Re: [css-d] a picture with in a picture

2008-03-08 Thread T
If you want an ornate frame, for example, where parts of it overlap the image, set the picture as the background image, then place the frame image over the top. For example, each page loads a different image. This is called image.jpg in the block below (just replace with your image name). div

[css-d] Bullet list position problem in IE

2008-03-08 Thread adriana escandon
Hi everyone, The bullets in the list appear on the last line of the sentence instead of on the beginning of the sentence. This only happens in IE because in Firefox the bullets work fine. http://studev.lagcc.cuny.edu/stm/stm03/stm/students.htm The css for the list: #inContent { width:

Re: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for

2008-03-08 Thread Karl Hardisty
On 7/03/2008, at 8:29 AM, david wrote: Karl Hardisty wrote: On 6/03/2008, at 7:03 AM, Rick Faircloth wrote: As far as IE goes, I test for IE6 and IE7, nothing lower. My data shows no visitors ever coming to my sites with anything less than IE6. And if they do, well, it's just time for an

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
In IE6 all lines are of equal length. So this would mean that IE8 is emulating the quirks modes different to how IE6 and IE7 handle quirks mode. Is this correct? Nope. Or rather I don't think so. I think your original suggestion was correct. ie. IE=5 actually causes IE8 to emulate IE6 in

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 64, Issue 9

2008-03-08 Thread Robin Whale
On 6 Mar 2008, at 18:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [KK] He should look into iCab: it's been around since system 7, the Mac Classic version was last updated on 1 January *2008*, it runs quite well on older Macintosh operating systems, and it supports enough CSS (among Other Things) to

[css-d] position of nav bar

2008-03-08 Thread Carrie Strongwater Drazin
Hi all. I have been lurking for a while, posted once, but didn't really introduce myself. Are we supposed to? I am really new to CSS, have read about 3 books on the subject and taken one course, but still feel very shaky with it. My site is http://www.strongwatermedia.com

Re: [css-d] Mind the Gap: multi-level menu problem

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Ryan N wrote: Hello all, In developing this menu I have encountered a problem with a couple different implementations of the code. Everything look fine in Firefox, Opera, and Safari yet IE (6 and 7) displays a 2-pixel gap underneath the li whenever a second-level menu item contains and

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Alex Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ie. IE=5 actually causes IE8 to emulate IE6 in quirks mode. End of story. My error was to use documents in standards mode as the reference point. I have now updated http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua

Re: [css-d] position of nav bar

2008-03-08 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
Hi Carrie, Always start with a minimalist HTML or XHTML file.You have some unnecessary span tags in your markup. Check to make sure your page validates before you style anything. I'm not saying your page doesn't validate, but step 2 is validation which rules out broken tags and other issues that

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Alex Robinson wrote: IE=8 --- The only hack / target combination which does not jibe, is the fact the *+html hack also gets applied by IE8 when targeted as IE=8. To repeat *+html targets IE8[0]. Since this only

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
I mostly agree, but not on the Rendered by IE 7 and quirks combinations. Your documents now have an xml declaration at the beginning which puts IE6 in quirks mode, but NOT IE7. The Rendered by IE 7 row should be exactly as the Rendered by IE 6 row. The screengrabs I'm using are exactly how IE7 (a

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Alex Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, I see what you mean. The way I have made it go into quirks mode is not actually making IE7 go into quirks mode. My lazy bad. I'll change it so it actually uses a quirks-causing doctype. Done. You're right

Re: [css-d] Bullet list position problem in IE

2008-03-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
adriana escandon wrote: The bullets in the list appear on the last line of the sentence instead of on the beginning of the sentence. This only happens in IE because in Firefox the bullets work fine. http://studev.lagcc.cuny.edu/stm/stm03/stm/students.htm You can add... #inContent ul li

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
At this point I think it's hard to say if with X_UA IE=5IE8 is emulating IE7 quirks or IE6 quirks, simply because the two are hardly distinguishable (I guess is more IE7 than IE6.) Yes, my previous claim that we know it's IE6 was founded on the assumption that I was serving quirks mode

Re: [css-d] a picture with in a picture

2008-03-08 Thread Rafael
T wrote: If you want an ornate frame, for example, where parts of it overlap the image, set the picture as the background image, then place the frame image over the top. For example, each page loads a different image. This is called image.jpg in the block below (just replace with your

[css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread David Laakso
I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on this 6 page comprehensive layout for an industrial site. The marketing target is the IE browsers. Mac/IE5.2 gets it right. /Known Issue:/ 147.69 second download on a 56K modem (the images will be optimized in the production version).

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Alex Robinson wrote: When X-UA is IE=7 or 8 and the doc is in quirks mode, then things go slightly awry. [...] But in quirks mode, IE8 ignores both * html and * + html (again for both IE=7 and IE=8). You now have your quirks mode documents with no

[css-d] 100% height again

2008-03-08 Thread Rebecca Richter
Hi! I received a great tip from here a little while ago on how to make a colum expand to 100% height. I'm now applying this to another design, but I'd like about 10px padding on the bottom, no matter how high the column is expanded. Please see

[css-d] navbar breaks in netscape

2008-03-08 Thread Rebecca Richter
I thought I had this design looking o.k. in IE and FF, but the navigation bar displays strangely in Netscape: http://www.blackfootchallenge.org/am/publish/newsite/index.php When you roll over a link in the navigation bar, the whole page shifts upward. Also, the spacer between the two different

[css-d] IE8 parsing invalid selectors

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Hi everyone After a bit of a prod I will announce that I have discovered the first parsing of invalid selectors in IE8. I worked them out from my use of these imports. /*\*//*/ @import url(test-ie8.css); @import(test-ie.css); /* For IE/Mac */ @import test-ie; /* For IE/Win */ Please close any

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread Stephan Wehner
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 3:58 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on this 6 page comprehensive layout for an industrial site. The marketing target is the IE browsers. Mac/IE5.2 gets it right. /Known Issue:/ 147.69 second download on a 56K

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread Phoebe Taylor
re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ Awesome. Interested in raising the bar another notch? Best, ~dL PS Ain't no mister hereabout. Just another bozo on the back of the bus. -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ Sure, I'd be up for it. :) Just let me know what the next challenge

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Bruno Fassino wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Alex Robinson wrote: Ah, I see what you mean. The way I have made it go into quirks mode is not actually making IE7 go into quirks mode. My lazy bad. I'll change it so it actually uses a quirks-causing doctype. Done. You're right

Re: [css-d] a picture with in a picture

2008-03-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:38:59 -0600, Rafael wrote: T wrote: [···] Use .png for the frame, cos it has excellent transparency support. Yet another reason not to use it: PNG images don't work in IE6 (and, although we all regret this, IE6 is still the dominant browser in the real world).

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of David Laakso Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 3:58 PM To: css discuss Subject: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on this 6 page comprehensive

Re: [css-d] a picture with in a picture

2008-03-08 Thread Jake Churchill
Here's a way to get png transparency to work in IE6: http://jake.cfwebtools.com/2007/09/17/ie6-png-transparency-fix/ -- Jake Churchill Team Leader 11204 Davenport, Ste. 100 Omaha, NE 68154 http://www.cfwebtools.com 402-408-3733 x103

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread Luc
Hello David, It was foretold that on 08/03/2008 @ 18:58:15 GMT-0500 (which was 20:58:15 where I live) David Laakso would write: snipped a bit I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on this 6 page comprehensive layout for an industrial site. The marketing target is the IE browsers.

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/mentor/ I think the 6th row of the table is missing a last cell. Also, I think you could do a better use of the summary attribute, maybe by using something like: This table charts our Distributors and Dealers along with

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Hello David, It was foretold that on 08/03/2008 @ 18:58:15 GMT-0500 (which was 20:58:15 where I live) David Laakso would write: snipped a bit I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on this 6 page comprehensive layout for an industrial site. The marketing target is

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread Tim Offenstein
At 10:36 PM -0500 3/8/08, David Laakso wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/mentor/ One thing I noticed (and I was surprised by this since you have a link to Lynx in the footer) is that the site is difficult to navigate via the keyboard. HTH, Hi David,

Re: [css-d] :: layout check :: ~dL

2008-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Thanks to all who have taken time to review the layout. The owner of the site and I will consider all of the comments and suggestions presented-- even those having nothing to do with the mission or purpose of this list: the practical discussion of CSS and its use. ~dL I'd appreciate any

Re: [css-d] Centered content jumps on insertion of removal of scroll bar

2008-03-08 Thread Michael B Allen
On 3/5/08, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael B Allen wrote: I have content that is centered on the page. Problem is - when a user switches between a page that does not have a vertical scroll bar and one that does (because the content fits within the browser window or