Re: [css-d] font-size: 62.5% revisited

2012-07-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-31 3:32, Josh Rehman wrote: The screen resolution thing is a non-issue because the CSS px is defined to be an angular measure: The reality is different from the spec, as one can see from the discussion of the topic in the relevant CSS3 draft:

Re: [css-d] IE9 stacking opacity bug. Any real solutions?

2012-07-31 Thread Georg
Apparently not. Georg __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html

[css-d] on html and css versions

2012-07-31 Thread Gergely Buday
Hi there, this is not strictly a css question but closely related. What html dtd is recommended to reach the most users? HTML 4.01 Transitional -- and CSS2? - Gergely __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-07-31 Thread Georg
On 31.07.2012 10:59, Gergely Buday wrote: What html dtd is recommended to reach the most users? HTML 4.01 Transitional -- and CSS2? Markup: the Stricter the better. Markup in accordance with HTML 4.01 Strict works fine in around 99.99% of browsers _in use_ today. HTML5 using new elements may

Re: [css-d] Media query workflow across multiple files...

2012-07-31 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a bunch Tom, that's very helpful info. I really appreciate the pro help! :) I'm going to play with workflow ideas you mention. I'll probably be back with more questions... For now, have a nice night.

[css-d] css drop shadow on border

2012-07-31 Thread Dave Solko
I have a 1px tool line at the bottom of a div. Is it possible to make a narrow drop shadow using 'box-shadow'? Everything I've been able to come up with is the height of the div. Ideally, I'd like something about 5px tall with the blur. TIA Dave Solko Pixel Alchemy d...@pixelalchemy.com

Re: [css-d] font-size: 62.5% revisited

2012-07-31 Thread Josh Rehman
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2012-07-31 3:32, Josh Rehman wrote: The screen resolution thing is a non-issue because the CSS px is defined to be an angular measure: The reality is different from the spec, as one can see from the discussion of

Re: [css-d] font-size: 62.5% revisited

2012-07-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-31 20:43, Josh Rehman wrote: The reality is different from the spec, as one can see from the discussion of the topic in the relevant CSS3 draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths The px unit may relate to the so-called reference pixel, or it may be anchored to a

Re: [css-d] css drop shadow on border

2012-07-31 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Dave Solko d...@pixelalchemy.com wrote: I have a 1px tool line at the bottom of a div. Is it possible to make a narrow drop shadow using 'box-shadow'? Everything I've been able to come up with is the height of the div. Ideally, I'd like something about 5px

Re: [css-d] font-size: 62.5% revisited

2012-07-31 Thread Josh Rehman
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2012-07-31 20:43, Josh Rehman wrote: The reality is different from the spec, as one can see from the discussion of the topic in the relevant CSS3 draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths The px unit

Re: [css-d] Media query workflow across multiple files...

2012-07-31 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi! On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: Pro help? Where? ;-) Pro, and modest too! :D Here's an example of the code from the head of the document I usually start from: Awesome! Thanks Tom, that's very helpful :) This will keep me busy for the next few

Re: [css-d] font-size: 62.5% revisited

2012-07-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-07-31 21:04, Josh Rehman wrote: Well, I honestly don't understand where you see an ambiguity. So, you're either using physical units like cm or mm or pixels, in which case you're using an angular measure. No, in situations where these dimensions (all so-called absolute length units,

Re: [css-d] font-size: 62.5% revisited

2012-07-31 Thread Hakan Kirkan
How about using terms like (small, x-small, xx-small, medium, large, x-large or xx-large). Can it be an alternative to % ? Thanks Hakan Kirkan Dominor LLC/ Miami http://dominor.com On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:06 AM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.comwrote: Taking Richard Rutter's original

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-07-31 Thread John D
What html dtd is recommended to reach the most users? HTML 4.01 Transitional -- and CSS2? I use this as my starting point for all my pages these days: !DOCTYPE html html head meta content=text/html; charset=utf-8 http-equiv=Content-Type titleUntitled 1/title /head body /body /html

[css-d] Does TextWrangler ever get weird?

2012-07-31 Thread John
Has anyone ever experienced problems with names within code using TW on OS X? I just had a case where I created something for which there's a right and a left part of a food menu. I did the left part, duped the markup and CSS, changed all relevant things which were left to right and the markup

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-07-31 Thread Georg
On 01.08.2012 00:14, Tedd Sperling wrote: This works for me, my students, and W3C validation: --- !doctype html html lang=en-us head meta charset=utf-8 Since that only contains an HTML5 standards mode trigger (for better than v.5.5 CSS support in IE/win *) and no DTD to

Re: [css-d] IE9 stacking opacity bug. Any real solutions?

2012-07-31 Thread Alan Gresley
On 31/07/2012 5:34 PM, Georg wrote: Apparently not. Georg I would most certainly need a reduced test case. I remember your multi-layer templates from the past. I did have a look and a play around and I also checked the latest spec [1] and saw the below words. I not even sure if

[css-d] collapsed border table issue

2012-07-31 Thread John
Given this code: table, th, td{ border:1px dotted black; border-collapse:collapse; } I find that when I use colspan=x, some of the borders are solid as a result, perhaps because they're doubled up as cells are widened by colspan. Is there a way around this, such that all the

Re: [css-d] IE9 stacking opacity bug. Any real solutions?

2012-07-31 Thread Georg
On 01.08.2012 03:37, Alan Gresley wrote: I would most certainly need a reduced test case. I remember your multi-layer templates from the past. I did have a look and a play around and I also checked the latest spec [1] and saw the below words. I not even sure if IE9 is doing it wrong. Well

[css-d] Extending border to height of tallest column.

2012-07-31 Thread J.C. Berry
Hi everyone, I have a layout that has three columns with two of them of varying heights, i.e. one is taller than the other. I need to have a 1 pixel border extend to the height of the taller of the two columns. Any directions or tutorials would be welcome. I would like to also learn this as

Re: [css-d] Extending border to height of tallest column.

2012-07-31 Thread Al Sparber
On 7/31/2012 11:16 PM, J.C. Berry wrote: Hi everyone, I have a layout that has three columns with two of them of varying heights, i.e. one is taller than the other. I need to have a 1 pixel border extend to the height of the taller of the two columns. Any directions or tutorials would be

Re: [css-d] on html and css versions

2012-07-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-08-01 4:16, Georg wrote: On 01.08.2012 00:14, Tedd Sperling wrote: This works for me, my students, and W3C validation: --- !doctype html html lang=en-us head meta charset=utf-8 Since that only contains an HTML5 standards mode trigger (for better than v.5.5 CSS support in

Re: [css-d] collapsed border table issue

2012-07-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-08-01 4:38, John wrote: Given this code: table, th, td{ border:1px dotted black; border-collapse:collapse; } I find that when I use colspan=x, some of the borders are solid as a result, perhaps because they're doubled up as cells are widened by colspan. 1px dotted

Re: [css-d] Extending border to height of tallest column.

2012-07-31 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/31/12 8:16 PM, J.C. Berry wrote: Hi everyone, I have a layout that has three columns with two of them of varying heights, i.e. one is taller than the other. I need to have a 1 pixel border extend to the height of the taller of the two columns. Any directions or tutorials would be welcome. I