Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-10 Thread Divya Manian
On 4/9/09 1:37 PM, Michael Adams linux_m...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Divya - I disagree. IE7 handles the XML declaration fine in standards mode[1]. Although i see it on line 8 when it should always be on line 1. IMHO IE less than IE7 should always be in quirks mode and the XML declaration will

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:44:04 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Divya Manian to my mailbox: On 4/9/09 1:37 PM, Michael Adams linux_m...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Divya - I disagree. IE7 handles the XML declaration fine in standards mode[1]. Although i see it on line 8 when it should

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Divya Manian wrote: You can try using :first-line [1]. Probably use a br/ to separate the lines? Not sure if it will work though (Certainly not semantic!). It would work technically well (:first-line has been in CSS since CSS 1.0 and is widely supported), but introducing an extra line break

[css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Leibson
Hi; I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac, yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design was effectively spread, horizontally, to fit the (maximized) window. This would have

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 10, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Michael Leibson wrote: I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac, yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design was effectively spread,

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac, yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design was effectively spread, horizontally, to fit the (maximized)

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Peter Hammarling
I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac, yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design was effectively spread, horizontally, to fit the (maximized) window. This would

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-10 Thread Climis, Tim
Besides, if you can and wish to add extra markup, you might just as well introduce b or strong (or some other inline element, to be styled), and then you would not need to create an extra line break. No pure CSS solution (i.e. an approach that does not require any added markup to separate

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-10 Thread Rebecca Mazur
If anyone's interested in trying to see if they can break the pages again, I'd love to have you try :) Some of the places I previously spotted it happening are below: http://www.kenyon.edu/x12366.xml http://www.kenyon.edu/x7904.xml http://www.kenyon.edu/x14305.xml

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Leibson
Seems to me to be behaving as the stylesheet intends. Thanks, Peter! - Michael From: Peter Hammarling pe...@artworkers.net To: Michael Leibson michael_mabe...@yahoo.ca Cc: CSS-D css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:07:05 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Leibson
Hi, David; It is in part due to the width of 1426px set on #background and the issue you have is not limited to FF-- it happens in all browsers. Structuring a layout with absolute positioning seldom works. Care to amplify (no pun intended) that? All I can so far determine is that my friend

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Leibson
Far from being a waste of time, I think your answer zoomed in (excuse the pun) on the key thing, Theophan, so thank-you! I hadn't even thought of a 'zoom' feature on my friend's machine. However, I've subsequently had my friend check her Firefox 3.0.8 zoom, and she said: I reset to 0 and

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Leibson
Hi, Georg, and thanks for this detailed reply! your page is full of markup errors... Thanks for bringing these to my attention -- I'll look into all of them when some time becomes available. Related questions: why, if using an li without an ordered or unordered list is not allowed, does it

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-10 Thread David Laakso
Rebecca Mazur wrote: If anyone's interested in trying to see if they can break the pages again, I'd love to have you try :) Some of the places I previously spotted it happening are below: All checked in IE/6.0 (only) on a cleared cache. http://www.kenyon.edu/x12366.xml Footer

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Leibson
Thanks, Phillipe! Here is how it looks like, when I force the window to the width of the monitor -windoze users call that full screen or something: http://dev.l-c-n.com/_b/ml.png I zoomed the text, note how the selected part overflows the sand background (and is then unreadable). Wow, pretty

[css-d] page-break-inside:avoid; not working

2009-04-10 Thread Yvan Daneault
I am a web-design teacher who's in the process of putting his documentation online, but I also want my students to occasionnally print the pages. The situation is as follows: I do not want paragraphs to be broken by a page break. I have include the following rule in my stylesheet: p

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/04/10 13:46 (GMT-0700) Michael Leibson composed: http://www.thinkingmusic.ca/ I intentionally made the font size super-big, in the hope that everyone who can read will be able to do so without text-zooming. Should I worry? Worrying doesn't accomplish anything. Instead, learn the

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: [...] Related questions: why, if using an li without an ordered or unordered list is not allowed, does it work on my site? What are the negative consequences of using it that way? 1: you're relying on browsers' error correction, which may or may not give the same

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 11, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Michael Leibson wrote: Thanks, Phillipe! s/Phillipe/Philippe Here is how it looks like, when I force the window to the width of the monitor -windoze users call that full screen or something: http://dev.l-c-n.com/_b/ml.png I zoomed the text, note how the

Re: [css-d] page-break-inside:avoid; not working

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:43:27 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Yvan Daneault to my mailbox: I am a web-design teacher who's in the process of putting his documentation online, but I also want my students to occasionnally print the pages. The situation is as follows: I do not want