[css-d] Floating to bottom-right of content : yet possible ?

2010-02-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
, the text does not flow around it as desired. http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/Terpsichore/ illustrates the same image placed clear of the text, but only co-incidentally aligning with the bottom of the page (if the content were longer, the image would remain top-right).

Re: [css-d] Moving css to external css changes results?!

2010-02-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR
range. Maybe the > onpage css takes precendce over the external css? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrollbar

2010-02-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Confirmed Seamonkey 2.0.3, Win/XP;SP3 @ 1152 x 864. Scrollbar disappears on zooming out eleven times. Philip Taylor David Laakso wrote: > Anyone besides me getting a horizontal scrollbar on this table based > site [1] in every browser on earth in a Mac and a PC? > >

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
colour of the outer, so why is this apparent inheritance taking place ? Or is it simply that the default background colour is "transparent", and therefore no inheritance is taking place but rather the colour is simply shewing through ? Philip Taylor http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/st

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Eric A. Meyer wrote: > Yes, it's that.[plus full explanation] Many thanks, Eric : much appreciated. ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- h

Re: [css-d] Basic doubt: align - text - font

2010-03-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
one OU of interest should not prevent the author from creating a data structure that will naturally expand to accommodate new data. My two (old) penn'orth. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] H1 tag use

2010-03-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
"Title" as in "Masthead" ? If so, I would have said that was exactly the right element to use (I am assuming that you didn't mean "Title" as in ). Philip Taylor Brian M. Curran wrote: > Hi All, > I've used the tag for the text of my web

Re: [css-d] content in table won't align vertically

2010-03-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
deal to be desired. Philip Taylor Thijs Hakkenberg wrote: > Dear list, > > In dreamweaver the 'Aan de lezer' content aligns to the top of the TD > element, but in Firefox/IE8 it won't: > http://nieuwsbrief.varkensinnood.nl/fileadmin/template/mailings/nieuwsbr

Re: [css-d] content in table won't align vertically

2010-03-17 Thread Philip TAYLOR
pletely agree : I migrated from HoTMetaL PRO to DW some years ago, and much as I miss the "tags on" view of HM PRO, I have come to regard DW as a quite acceptable substitute so long as one remembers that it is simply an interface between code

Re: [css-d] Question about standards compliant mode in IE

2010-03-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
uot;, the "one" that you have cited, at http://bit.ly/2MHgIY, specifically states "The Developer Toolbar is not compatible with Internet Explorer 8." Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http:

Re: [css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tim Climis wrote: > Mmm. I believe he meant "they" to refer back to the elements. Well, that's certainly one possible interpretation : perhaps Alan will clarify. ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://ww

Re: [css-d] Which selector to use?

2010-03-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
#closeButton ? Linda Miller, DVM wrote: > I would like to style an input button > > > > What selector would I use to do this? > > There are other buttons that I do not want to style the same as this button. > > Thank you, > Linda ___

Re: [css-d] doctype

2010-04-01 Thread Philip TAYLOR
: the last is irrelevant in this context), and whilst the purist in me would advocate "strict", a more pragmatic person might recommend transitional until you yourself become more familiar with the standards. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] doctype

2010-04-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
can (and must) be exactly one instance of an HTML element, so why would a CSS declaration for the HTML element not be as useful as a CSS declaration for its ID ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http:/

Re: [css-d] doctype

2010-04-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > html.is-ie-6 body { display: none; } > or something like that... :-) Oh, if only html.ishtml5 {visibility: hidden} :-))) ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discus

[css-d] Can "media" values be used as a part of a selector ?

2010-04-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR
technique that could be used in circumstances such as this ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List pol

Re: [css-d] Can "media" values be used as a part of a selector ?

2010-04-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tim Snadden wrote: > You can handle this as follows: > > @media print { > body { font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif ; } > } > > @media screen { > body {font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; } > } Thank you, Tim. I assume that the "@media" constructs appear within a

Re: [css-d] Can "media" values be used as a part of a selector ?

2010-04-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tim Snadden wrote: > They can appear in

Re: [css-d] Changes how (some) browsers handle the a:visited pseudo-class

2010-04-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
m the specification(s). A user-controllable feature within the browser, on the other hand, would provide a convenient way of working around any deficienc{y|ies} in the specification(s) whilst still allowing the user to have a fully compliant browser if he/she so wishes. Philip Taylor Philippe Witten

Re: [css-d] Re the non-secure login code...

2010-04-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Just one comment (for now !) -- Shouldn't input type=text be input type=password ? Otherwise the user's password will remain visible on-screen. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 content breaks out of container

2010-05-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
rce, I see : id="generatedContent-1" Are you sure "generatedContent-1" is a valid ID ? I am not. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailma

Re: [css-d] Serving "universal ie6 stylesheet" to IE5, IE5.5 and IE Mac

2010-05-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
lii.org/quarante-deux/img/dev/flyingbooksmall25tr.png I see it just to the left of "Quarante-Deux Quelques pages sur la Science-Fiction" on a PC (Win/XP PRO) in Seamonkey 2.0.4 Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.

Re: [css-d] Serving "universal ie6 stylesheet" to IE5, IE5.5 and IE Mac

2010-05-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ellen Herzfeld wrote: > Seamonkey I don't have. Should I? Well, I never use anything else, being a reluctant migrant from Netscape 4. It's based on the same rendering engine as Firefox (i.e., Gecko) but includes an integrated e-mail client without which I simply could not liv

Re: [css-d] page jumps when an internal page link is clicked

2010-05-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
The effect is also visible in Seamonkey 2.0.4 (Win/XP Pro; SP3). Philip Taylor Debbie Campbell wrote: > I'm viewing it in FF 3.6. When I (or the client) click on any of the > internal links, the top margin of 44px on #wrapper-table-pages > disappears and the grey content ar

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-10 Thread Philip TAYLOR
rouble. What are "border-top", "border-bottom", "margin-top", "margin-bottom", etc., if not "vertical space measures" ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-10 Thread Philip TAYLOR
respect that judgement rather than seeking to circumvent it. Philip Taylor __ 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

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-10 Thread Philip TAYLOR
majority of users falling into category (c), we can still do no better than to not set a default font size at all, or to set at at 100% or 1em. The defence rests, m'lud. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] unwanted borders around tags in IE8

2011-11-29 Thread Philip TAYLOR
I too have many questions related to cross-browser compatibility using JavaScript, I do not believe that this is the most appropriate forum in which to raise them Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] CSS Via Conditional Comments for Safari?

2011-12-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Barney Carroll wrote: I am incredibly pretentious ;) You think you really have to tell us that, having already written : there are no credible user personas who fire up Windows and Mac to make sure their experience of a site has bitmap parity ???! :-) Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] How To Clear CSS Caching?

2012-01-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Elli Vizcaino wrote: I'm noticing that not every browser refreshes the CSS even when using shift + refresh. One reason for that is that some use Ctrl + Refresh. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discus

Re: [css-d] Test on OS X 10.7 Lion please

2012-01-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
f' as a default). The test fails (displays a serif font) on my side; I already cleared all font-caches. Other browsers work correctly. Seamonkey 2.5 (/still/ no auto-update to 2.6.1; has this been completely forogtten ?), Win/XP : Serif, serif, serif, sans-serif, sans-s

Re: [css-d] Test on OS X 10.7 Lion please

2012-01-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Jan 4, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Seamonkey 2.5 (/still/ no auto-update to 2.6.1; has this been completely forogtten ?), Win/XP : Serif, serif, serif, sans-serif, sans-serif. Possible depending on what you have installed; that is not what I

Re: [css-d] @Fontface Not Working?

2012-01-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
e7flux.com/clients/sof/) and it works fine. @font-face { font-family: Creampuff; src: url('fonts/creampuff.ttf') format('truetype'); font-weight: normal; } 'fonts/creampuff.ttf' is a relative URL, Elli : to wh

Re: [css-d] iPhone/iPad iPhun

2012-01-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ation bug while keeping it fully within the viewport then please just say so or don't respond. I am very sorry that I tried to help. Please be assured that I will never make that mistake again in the future. P.S. I /always/ read requests fully before responding. Phi

Re: [css-d] IE Compatibility mode - forced to not appear

2012-01-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Won't the correct DTD (e.g., HTML 4.01 Strict) accomplish that ? mem wrote: This a little of topic, but still css related. :) I'm desperate. :) Indeed. Any known way to force the browser to not use compatibility mode at all ? (without going to each bad browser users and yelling at them that,

Re: [css-d] IE Compatibility mode - forced to not appear

2012-01-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ah, can't help you there. From a purely personal perspective, I see no point in using HTML 5 until there is a formal, ratified, W3C specification for it, rather than (as at present) "a work in progress, intend[ed] to replace HTML 3.2, HTML 4, and XHTML 1.x." [1] Philip Taylor [1

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
arbitrary units that come with a font, and so are exes". Philip Taylor __ 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

Re: [css-d] I Have a Really Big 'm'

2012-01-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ghodmode wrote: It shows that an em is as wide as it is tall, No, it does not. An "em" is one-dimensional, not two. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailma

Re: [css-d] .

2012-01-25 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Brian wrote: F*** ! I’ve never seen anything better! It’s the dream of my life! Exactly the same obscene text to be found all over the web; recommend not to follow link. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css

Re: [css-d] menu in separate page?

2012-02-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
s and library files; Server-side includes; XMLHttpRequest Philip Taylor __ 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 pol

Re: [css-d] Vertical Rhyme

2012-02-03 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ave a suggestion how to solve this properly? I see no rhyme pattern, Jered (unless you are writing in blank verse, that is); can you tell use which parts represent the rhyme, and send URLs shewing them messed up (with borders) as well as not message up (without borders) ? Philip T

Re: [css-d] Big IE8 problem: broken layout

2012-02-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
What's with the weird "" ? Philip Taylor Rory Bernstein wrote: Hello All, I am working on a site that has a big IE8 layout problem. Here is the working prototype: http://donaldstark.ehclients.com/ I now have another problem on the same site as I wrote about the o

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
John D wrote: You mean something like this: <http://www.mytechnet.talktalk.net/david_thorpe.htm> This forces a vertical scroll bar in Seamonkey 2.7.2 at 1152 x 862. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lis

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
or unwilling to take the time to separate the wheat of true creativity from the chaff of mindless mimicry. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/

Re: [css-d] weird rendering issue in a few versions of IE

2012-04-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ust a single error may be all that is causing your problem. Fix the errors (all of them) and then see if there is any improvement; if not, report back. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discus

[css-d] Off-topic : how old does DW have to be in order to be incompatible with Windows 7 ?

2012-04-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
na...@thesmudge.com wrote: older versions of, for example, DreamWeaver, do not run on Vista or 7 How old ? I run V8.0.2 very successfully under Windows 7. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] Multiple, evenly split, fluid columns inside fixed-width parent container?

2012-04-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ional, and if so, what is the rationale ? Many thanks in advance for any insights you care to share. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/F

Re: [css-d] Redefine All Images

2012-05-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
an ID; the absence of both denotes an element, which is what an is. Philip Taylor __ 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/

Re: [css-d] Redefine All Images

2012-05-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
an ID; the absence of both denotes an element, which is what an is. Philip Taylor __ 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/

Re: [css-d] Using floats for tables

2012-05-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
came to look at the rendered page, I found that it was indeed /not/ a table (/qua/ table) but was instead a multi-column design. The individual columns could arguably qualify for being regarded as (one-column) tables, but the three columns taken as a whole could not (IMHO, of course). Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] IE Destroys Website

2012-06-19 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Brett Goodrich wrote: Obviously, if someone could find the error I'd be grateful! Not one error, 40 errors (and 7 warnings) : Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Result: 40 Errors, 7 warning(s) Philip T

Re: [css-d] Converting UPPER CASE TEXT to Title Case Text or Sentence case text

2012-06-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Perhaps the spaces here : Philip Taylor Kyle Sessions wrote: I'm trying to figure out if it's possible (via purely CSS) to take some UPPERCASE TEXT and display it as Title Case (i.e. The First Letter Of Every Word Capitalized), or, less ideally but bette

Re: [css-d] Converting UPPER CASE TEXT to Title Case Text or Sentence case text

2012-06-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Kyle Sessions wrote: > Any other ideas? Well, I ran into problems with ::first-letter some time ago, and I seem to recall that they lay with the display mode. If I remember correctly, you can manipulate correctly the first letter of a , but not of a within a . This is all from memory, and so

Re: [css-d] Converting UPPER CASE TEXT to Title Case Text or Sentence case text

2012-06-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
etter pseudo-element is just before the first text of the element, even if that first text is in a descendant." Philip TAYLOR wrote: I would recommend researching the exact specification for the elements on which ::first-letter can operate and seeing if that provi

Re: [css-d] Converting UPPER CASE TEXT to Title Case Text or Sentence case text

2012-06-26 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Kyle Sessions wrote: Incidentally, it seems like I've seen it in various places online as :first-letter and in other places as ::first-letter. Does it matter if you use one colon or two? Why? W3C : "This [double-colon] notation is introduced in order to establish a discrimination between ps

Re: [css-d] mac vs pc

2012-07-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Is it possible that the fonts that your CSS specifies (especially those classed as "!important") exist on PCs but not on Apple Macintoshii ? Philip Taylor S Baily-Gould wrote: Sorry, Theresa from the CSS list pointed out that you have to log in to Hubspot to help. The sa

Re: [css-d] doesn't float all the way up

2012-07-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
the source file will be displayed. But if you then follow the "Download" link, the file will be downloaded and then opened in the browser (at least, this works for me), assuming that you select the option "Open with ..." rather than "Save as". https://www.dro

Re: [css-d] doesn't float all the way up

2012-07-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
WbgUH Philip Taylor __ 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 Support

Re: [css-d] Problem with nav menu on Mac Safari and Mac Firefox

2012-07-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
intended on Apple macintoshii. Philip Taylor Spencer, Laura Langa wrote: URL: http://www.bcbsm.com/foundation Problem: In Mac Safari and Mac Firefox, the final navigation option, "RESOURCES" bumps down to a second line and it should be all on one line. In all PC browsers (I

Re: [css-d] Making type behave better, cross-platform

2012-07-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
igger than I designed! In that case, I would start with the simplest possible page, and experiment (changing font families, units, and so on) until you can get near-identity on the two systems. Then, and only then, start working on more complex designs. Phi

Re: [css-d] google web font question

2012-07-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Gergely Buday wrote: Hi, I have chosen Pontano Sans from the Google web font collection. On their website all Hungarian accents show right, even ő and ű, the two letter with the long double accent, which causes problems in many fonts. Now, I created a simple shell script to generate a sample

Re: [css-d] Hover Background Change

2012-07-18 Thread Philip TAYLOR
hrome Inspector. Also see /the-courses/ and hover over "New Testament" where it's doing the same thing. Any ideas as to why it's changing the background on hover? .table tbody tr:hover td, .table tbody tr:hover th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } is one possibility, or an

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

2012-07-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
upper case characters, inside the HTML, and omit the accents - but using upper case in this webpage is a decision of style, not content, so I'd rather do it with CSS. Off-hand, no, but could you clarify : are you speaking of polytonic ("classical") Greek or modern (monotonic) Greek ?

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

2012-07-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philip TAYLOR wrote: Off-hand, no, but could you clarify : are you speaking of polytonic ("classical") Greek or modern (monotonic) Greek ? Incidentally, Mozilla claim to do it properly : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/text-transform which reads (in part) : In

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

2012-07-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
.11. Well, Mozilla clearly know what /should/ happen : I wonder why it does not ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ner property that can be used to indicate "end of line to be ignored within the scope of this container". Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wik

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR
heir font size directly from the element just outside the container element. Philip Taylor -- MIL-05991/237/2012-B : Any loss of data or other computer malfunction resulting directly or indirectly from the use of Linux will be regarded as a self-inflicted injury and treated accordingly. Users of

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

2012-08-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
he best way to do that is by running your documents through one or more HTML validators. Ex. http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#what-is-it Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.o

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

2012-08-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Rob Crowther wrote:> On 02/08/2012 17:02, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> >> I think that is an over-simplification, and one that is misleading >> if it gets into the wrong hands. > > Not really, otherwise tricks like having a DOCTYPE without a DTD > wouldn't

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

2012-08-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
form. To base a specification on what a particular subset of browsers do at some arbitrary point in time is to completely fail to understand the reason for a specification in the first place. Philip Taylor [1] When current browsers (Netscape 4, I think it was) required four non-standard attri

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

2012-08-02 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Rob Crowther wrote: > On 02/08/12 19:40, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> >> Exactly as you meant it in your earlier message : >> > I meant it as defined in the HTML5 specification. You're apparently > disallowing that, so I wanted to know what your definition was. H

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ree on what to do with the bottom > margin of that . > > Here is a minimal testcase illustrating what is going on: > http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/min-height_margin-b.html But what for behaviour does the specification call, Philippe, in

Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Alan. But I find the text much more ambiguous than it was then. The behavior as shown by WebKit, Presto, Trident is much more intuitive, although – I think – not correct by the spec. OK, thank you. All other points noted. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ually proposes for the and elements (along with most others) is : > { > margin: 0; > padding: 0; > border: 0; > font-size: 100%; > font: inherit; > vertical-align: baseline; > } i.e., leave font-weight and style to t

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-13 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Looks both interesting and potentially useful. Thank you. Philip Taylor Kuzeko Web Design - Matteo Lissandrini wrote: Then you all need to appreciate this: http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/ __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Custom CSS resets

2012-08-14 Thread Philip TAYLOR
o re-style extant documents over which we may have little or no control. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio

Re: [css-d] elements not showing in iOS, can't see why

2012-08-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
meta. Philip Taylor __ 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 Support

Re: [css-d] Droid RAZR problem

2012-08-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
32 HTML errors and 68 warnings; once these are corrected, there is a far greater chance that the site will behave correctly and consistently across all platforms. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.sportsmansresource.com/flocalxnewyork_1a.htm Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Droid RAZR problem

2012-08-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Well, I still see 29 errors, Bruce, of which approximately 50% are the use of unescaped "&" where "&" is required. I doubt whether fixing these will improve the RAZR problem, but as I have no idea what a "Droid RAZR" is, I am not going to be able to b

Re: [css-d] Font-size unit Mobile and tablet Android

2012-09-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
y W3C specification at all. Philip Taylor __ 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-discus

Re: [css-d] Font-size unit Mobile and tablet Android

2012-09-07 Thread Philip TAYLOR
pixels appear in any W3C specification, so using them in a general-purpose CSS style sheet is doomed to failure. As Phillippe has already suggested, such units appear to be intended for usage in the user interface, not in HTML documents per se. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Minimal CSS Design: searching for inspiration

2012-09-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
e on the relationship between IA and hierarchy Philip Taylor __ 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 -- ht

Re: [css-d] Minimal CSS Design: searching for inspiration

2012-09-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Many thanks, Ben : much clearer, and just one question remains -- what are "gimmees", as in "Gropius et al are gimmees" ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/

Re: [css-d] Minimal CSS Design: searching for inspiration

2012-09-16 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ben Henick wrote: On 9/16/12 2:22 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Many thanks, Ben : much clearer, and just one question remains -- what are "gimmees", as in "Gropius et al are gimmees" ? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gimme - fourth definition, second sens

Re: [css-d] Opposing floats not lining up

2012-09-24 Thread Philip TAYLOR
dest plus appropriate margins/padding ? Philip Taylor __ 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-d

[css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-21 Thread Philip TAYLOR
orted, however, that Opera does not respect the specification, and renders it as : bar If this is the cas, would the general consensus be that this represents a bug in the Opera rendering engine and would therefore warrant a bug rep

Re: [css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
g ? In my view (which I do not think is heretical), an author should be able to /rely/ on a W3C specification, not have to test his/her work against every extant browser -- would you not agree ? Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [

Re: [css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
behaving acceptably by adding an !important style rule in the region. Philip Taylor __ 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/ L

Re: [css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
browser rendering behaviour cease to be CSS 2.1 conformant in the future, as you predict in your opening words. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -

Re: [css-d] CSS "content" attribute.

2012-10-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
3.org/check?uri=http://web-consultants.org.uk/tests/css-content.html Philip Taylor __ 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/ L

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
more appropriate and intuitive symbol generally available ? Philip Taylor __ 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 po

[css-d] CSS & footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
aspects of the page's dimensions ? Philip Taylor __ 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://

Re: [css-d] CSS & footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: But to address the basic problem of recognizing what the link really took the user to, you can do some styling on the :target pseudo-class, e.g. :target { background: #ffd; color: black; border: dotted 1px; } Then it suddenly becomes important how the

[css-d] Re : OT -- Crossweavers CodeOver - Free download till midnight 10-31-12

2012-10-31 Thread Philip TAYLOR
matt1027 wrote: Crossweavers is offering a free CodeOver download till midnight tonight, 10-31-12. CodeOver enables Mac and Linux to run Windows applications. And the relevance of this to CSS is what, exactly ? __ css-dis

Re: [css-d] no ul list style with reset.css

2012-11-04 Thread Philip TAYLOR
tted, Beth : I missed that. But just in case Koen is still unsure what is happening, his UL is being styled by "reset.css" since that styles /all/ ULs, and not by his local style file since that targets a UL other than

[css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
ly but not certainly) the validator evaluates the cascade before deciding which rules to validate (is this assertion true ?), but given that it is not a bad property value but a bad property, is there nothing I can do short of hacking proprietary code to make this site va

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
why your code isn't validating. I personally would be able to live with that. Mumble mumble mumble. It is not validator-compliance that I am seeking; it is W3C standards compliance, which is (sometimes) a very different kiddle of fish ... Ah well, my thanks to you both for yo

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
1/10 defective/aberrant browsers whinge like hell to their browser vendor and point him/her/them/it at the relevant W3C specification. Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] Trumping bad proprietary code.

2012-11-08 Thread Philip TAYLOR
as correct a document that deviates one iota from the published specification; once it does that, even for just one special case, it ceases to be a validator and becomes just another piece of pragmatic junk. Philip Taylor __ css-di

Re: [css-d] badly broken links on CSS-d wiki

2012-12-06 Thread Philip TAYLOR
-stacking/static.gif Philip Taylor __ 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

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