Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

2011-06-05 Thread Barney Carroll
Charles, The problem with letter-spacing is that it will only acknowledge whole-pixel differences, which is usually far too large a scale for copy text. I feel your pain — I've often wanted to minutely adjust this for the sake of readability. Sadly the only lesson we can take from this is that

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Barney Carroll
Keith, By default. block-level elements occupy the full available width, thus any following block-level elements can only appear directly below. This is as long as they are statically positioned, and in standard (which everything is, by default). The same applies to paragraphs, headings, lists,

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Barney Carroll wrote: Keith, By default. block-level elements occupy the full available width, thus any following block-level elements can only appear directly below. I am unconvinced of this explanation. At http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/tests/Block-level-elements/DIVs.html

Re: [css-d] Recreating the Facebook layout

2011-06-05 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/06/05 12:30 (GMT+0100) Barney Carroll composed: Sadly the only lesson we can take from this is that Tahoma has too little in the way of letter-spacing to make for a pleasant web font. Tahoma looks to me like little but Verdana with letter spacing reduced to nil and glyphs squeezed a

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Gresley
On 5/06/2011 11:05 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: Keith, By default. block-level elements occupy the full available width, thus any following block-level elements can only appear directly below. I am unconvinced of this explanation. At

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: It is really do with block flow direction. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-flow | The block flow direction is the direction in which | block-level boxes stack and the direction in which | line boxes stack within a block container. The |

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Alan Gresley
On 5/06/2011 11:53 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: It is really do with block flow direction. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-flow | The block flow direction is the direction in which | block-level boxes stack and the direction in which |

[css-d] Two questions

2011-06-05 Thread Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh
http://montana-riverboats.com/Uploads/isitpossible.jpg shows a small crop from a large layered psd file I got from a designer. 1) The image above shows the top-left corner of the proposed page's main content display division, which shows a semi-internal border that looks like a fuzzy drop-shadow

[css-d] Cross-browser incompatibility (I think)

2011-06-05 Thread Kashif Sami
Hi everyone. Need some help with what I believe is a cross-browser compatibility issue. Please look into http://kraymark.com/clients-demo/triplepsltd/ . I tried to bring the the slider and the main content section closer together on the 'index' page by adding this code *to 'style-index.css' . *

Re: [css-d] Cross-browser incompatibility (I think)

2011-06-05 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
5.6.2011 21:36, Kashif Sami wrote: Need some help with what I believe is a cross-browser compatibility issue. Please look into http://kraymark.com/clients-demo/triplepsltd/ . I tried to bring the the slider and the main content section closer together on the 'index' page by adding this code

[css-d] problems with validation

2011-06-05 Thread Martin
Hi there. I know it's not strictly css, but perhaps some kind person will help me with this small problem. div class=columns a href=training.php h6Training/h6 pblah blah blah./p /a /div I get the error: document type does not allow element h6 here; missing one of object, ins, del, map,

Re: [css-d] problems with validation

2011-06-05 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
5.6.2011 23:33, Martin wrote: I know it's not strictly css, The question, as asked, is not about CSS at all in any meaning, so it's off-topic. The construct that causes the validation problem has a considerable CSS impact, though: a href=training.php h6Training/h6 pblah blah blah./p

Re: [css-d] problems with validation

2011-06-05 Thread Bobby Jack
On 5 Jun 2011, at 21:33, Martin mhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. I know it's not strictly css, but perhaps some kind person will help me with this small problem. div class=columns a href=training.php h6Training/h6 pblah blah blah./p /a /div I get the error: document type does

Re: [css-d] problems with validation

2011-06-05 Thread Martin
On 05/06/11 22:00, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 5.6.2011 23:33, Martin wrote: I know it's not strictly css, The question, as asked, is not about CSS at all in any meaning, so it's off-topic. The construct that causes the validation problem has a considerable CSS impact, though: a

Re: [css-d] Cross-browser incompatibility (I think)

2011-06-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: The type attribute isn't really needed in link rel=stylesheet ..., as browsers imply CSS Hmm, not really. Or rather, not totally. If the stylesheet is served with a mime-type / http-header that is _not_ 'text/css', then browsers will

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: Keith, By default. block-level elements occupy the full available width, thus any following block-level elements can only appear directly below. I am unconvinced of this explanation. At

Re: [css-d] Separating DIVs vertically

2011-06-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: So, what would you expect to happen if the writing mode were top-to-bottom ? Would you then expect the DIVs to stack side by side ? I would not, but of course I am always open to being surprised ! They would be stacked