Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-23 Thread sweepslate
Hmm. It works for me. Oh, but I have a nightly Firefox build, not the release build (which version is the latest ?). After a quick look though the MDC docs, it appears you'll have to wait for Firefox 15 to have it work correctly. Yes, it works with on the latest Firefox Nightly. Is this

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-23 Thread sweepslate
How many blocks of Greek text is this needed for? Are the accented letters a different Unicode codepoint from the same letter unaccented or is it unaccented letter followed by the accent? If so, you can just use find/replace to do the conversion of the text in the HTML. I'm not sure I

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 23 juil. 2012 à 21:40, sweepslate a écrit : Is this something we'll see in CSS3 or just a Mozilla thing? CSS 2.1 ? [quote] The actual transformation in each case is written language dependent [/quote] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-text-transform (who wrote that sentence… so

[css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
How do pixels compare with ems on devices with high DPI/PPI? The reason I ask is that, years ago, I had a laptop that was set to 120 DPI instead of the then more common 96 DPI. Setting a font size of 12 points in the CSS displayed text at 20 pixels. But at 100% or 1em, Webkit and Mozilla

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/07/23 09:40 (GMT-0700) David Hucklesby composed: How do pixels compare with ems on devices with high DPI/PPI? Poorly, and without regard to DPI. Px disregards user preferences 100%, bearing no relationship to ems except in cases where px per em is known, such as on an intranet and

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread Barney Carroll
Felix, this is the reason I subscribe to the list. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer – there's loads here I didn't know. It's amazing how much bizarre standard practice comes from a perceived need for retroactive continuity with a minority of sites that make terrible mistakes. Break the

Re: [css-d] Help with CSS3 transitions?

2012-07-23 Thread Kyle Sessions
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:18 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/20/12 12:24 PM, Kyle Sessions wrote: Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could give me a hand with the CSS3 transition property. I've set up a very simple test page here:

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread BHomis
So as a non-expert who wants to be sure my pages look a certain way, I'm best to stick with px rather than em? Bruce In a message dated 7/23/2012 2:17:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mrma...@earthlink.net writes: On 2012/07/23 09:40 (GMT-0700) David Hucklesby composed: How do pixels

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/23/12 11:24 AM, Barney Carroll wrote: Felix, this is the reason I subscribe to the list. Thanks for such a comprehensive answer – there's loads here I didn't know. It's amazing how much bizarre standard practice comes from a perceived need for retroactive continuity with a minority of sites

Re: [css-d] Help with CSS3 transitions?

2012-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/23/12 11:25 AM, Kyle Sessions wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:18 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/20/12 12:24 PM, Kyle Sessions wrote: Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could give me a hand with the CSS3 transition property. I've set up a very simple test page here:

Re: [css-d] Help with CSS3 transitions?

2012-07-23 Thread Kyle Sessions
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:02 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.comwrote: On 7/23/12 11:25 AM, Kyle Sessions wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:18 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/20/12 12:24 PM, Kyle Sessions wrote: Hi everyone, I was hoping someone could give me a

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012/07/23 14:42 (GMT-0400) bho...@aol.com composed: So as a non-expert who wants to be sure my pages look a certain way, I'm best to stick with px rather than em? Depends on your meaning of a certain way. If you mean you want pages designed for print hosted on the web, it's probably the

Re: [css-d] Pixels vs. ems--what's the point?

2012-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/23/12 11:42 AM, bho...@aol.com wrote: So as a non-expert who wants to be sure my pages look a certain way, I'm best to stick with px rather than em? Bruce In a message dated 7/23/2012 2:17:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mrma...@earthlink.net writes: On 2012/07/23 09:40 (GMT-0700) David

[css-d] Place LinkedIn, Facebook likes side-by-side?

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Morton
Please look at the bottom of www.eigen.com. How can I position the Facebook Like and LinkedIn Follow buttons side-by-side? The FB button utilizes some CSS for its positioning. Doing something similar for the LinkedIn Follow button didn't work (at least my implementation didn't.) Thanks

Re: [css-d] Place LinkedIn, Facebook likes side-by-side?

2012-07-23 Thread Wade Smart
Hmmm They are side by side. -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Chris Morton salt.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Please look at the bottom of www.eigen.com. How can I position the Facebook Like and LinkedIn

Re: [css-d] Place LinkedIn, Facebook likes side-by-side?

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Morton
Also, the Facebook Like is in a relative position when adjusting browser width. The LinkedIn Follow button is absolute, which poses a related problem. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Chris Morton salt.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Not when rendered in Chrome, they're not. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at