[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: negative absolute positioning bad for SEO?

2008-05-15 Thread Alex Robinson
As far as I know, Bob Easton was credited with the off-left technique -- here's what happened to him: http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/19/off-left-banned-by-google/ It's something to consider. What? Not letting your site get hacked? Tedd, I think you've missed the punchline of Bob's post

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: SEO and CSS

2008-04-03 Thread Alex Robinson
At 12:36 -0400 2/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any good resources on the best way to create a standards/accessible totally CSS website with maximum Search Engine Optimization? In other words, how can I create a site using only xhtml and css and ensure that it will be found in the

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-16 Thread Alex Robinson
Alex, have you found that link about the vector thing being broken? No :( And now the top hit on Google for X-UA and conditional comments is... ... this very thread! I'll keep looking. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:24 -0700 14/3/08, Alan Gresley wrote: This is real problem if an author decides that IE8 should to go into IE7 mode and render like the true IE7. No conditional comments meant for IE7 are used. Microsoft have said Developers, you must use conditional comments, you must use X-UA, these

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Robinson
Can anyone please confirm that the real IE7 will show blue, blue, green, green and red on all test pages? http://css-class.com/test/ie8hack-valid.htm Confirming. Those colors are what the real IE7 shows. /aol Me too! __

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Robinson
http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html does not show the generated content, but the Conditional Comment for _IE8_ Is this expected? Even if the X-UA-Compatible is set to IE=7, the conditional comment acts as if this is IE8? I noticed this when I added conditional comments to my XU-A tests

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Robinson
I noticed this when I added conditional comments to my XU-A tests That is, that IE8 matches the conditional comment if IE 8 regardless of what X-UA target you set. Sorry. I knew what I meant, but forgot that not everyone has access to the inside of my head...

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: New CSS/html tools?..

2008-03-11 Thread Alex Robinson
of editors stays there please. ie. this thread now over. Thanks. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com

Re: [css-d] Curious question inspired by the X-UA compatible thread

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Robinson
At 22:36 -1000 9/3/08, david wrote: If you have an HTML document that happens to contain another HTML document in an iframe - and one of the two documents triggers quirks mode when rendered by itself - is each one rendered in the same mode or does the browser somehow do one in standards mode and

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Robinson
I've seen a couple of other cases (not related to parsing/selectors problems but to rendering) where IE8 quirks is equal to IE7 quirks when this differs from IE6 quirks. Also, I just noticed (again, this may be old news by now) that fieldsets and input buttons (and presumably all form

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-09 Thread Alex Robinson
You now have your quirks mode documents with no doctype. If I put in a quirks mode doctype (HTML 4.01 Transitional, no url) then IE8 behavior in those two cases changes. It sees the *+html, as with a standard doctype, like the X-UA IE=8 or 7 overrode the quirks mode of the document. This is more

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
In IE6 all lines are of equal length. So this would mean that IE8 is emulating the quirks modes different to how IE6 and IE7 handle quirks mode. Is this correct? Nope. Or rather I don't think so. I think your original suggestion was correct. ie. IE=5 actually causes IE8 to emulate IE6 in

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
I mostly agree, but not on the Rendered by IE 7 and quirks combinations. Your documents now have an xml declaration at the beginning which puts IE6 in quirks mode, but NOT IE7. The Rendered by IE 7 row should be exactly as the Rendered by IE 6 row. The screengrabs I'm using are exactly how IE7 (a

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
At this point I think it's hard to say if with X_UA IE=5IE8 is emulating IE7 quirks or IE6 quirks, simply because the two are hardly distinguishable (I guess is more IE7 than IE6.) Yes, my previous claim that we know it's IE6 was founded on the assumption that I was serving quirks mode

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Can someone confirm that the results

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
IE8 cannot emulate IE6, only IE5 and 7. WTF? So IE=6 is actually the same as IE=5. Genius. Of course, I believe you, but I'm having difficulty tracking down where Microsoft say this. Any pointers? 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Which parsing errors exactly? The IE

[css-d] Old friends - IE8 suffers from fuzzy specificity

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
... as all previous versions of IE have done http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/hacks/fuzzyspecificity (Reported to the Microsoft beta forum) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
Of course, I believe you, but I'm having difficulty tracking down where Microsoft say this. Any pointers? Not yet, but I'm 100% certain this is the case. Ah, ok. I see the answer in liorean's post. In the white paper / technology overview

Re: [css-d] New IE8 page on the wiki

2008-03-06 Thread Alex Robinson
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE8 Is this a comprehensive IE8 page? Or, is it meant only for IE8 Beta? Please clarify these things on that page. It's meant to be comprehensive, ie from gestation to birth (and on to death?) of IE8, betas, release candidates, finals and all. Take a look

Re: [css-d] reply-to address

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Robinson
At 20:39 +0300 14/2/08, Ibrahim Y wrote: Hi folks, I hope this never been discussed before... Guess what... I noticed when I want to reply to any email from the list that the default reply-to address is the email of the sender not the list, So, every time I have to reply-all or add the list

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Fonts in Vista Office 2007

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 21:50 -0700 5/2/08, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: I installed Office 2007 on my box at work and really like some of the new fonts that came with it. http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/a-comprehensive-look-at-the-new-microsoft-fonts/ Anyone know if you can buy them separately somewhere? (I really don't

Re: [css-d] Transitional Vs. Strict Doctype

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 09:46 -0800 6/2/08, Elli Vizcaino wrote: Hello List, Not sure if this would fall under off topic. But I wanted to know what the reasons are for using a strict doc type as opposed to transitional. I use strict in my documents but wondered why it seems to be a bad idea to go with transitional as

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC - STOP THIS THREAD] Re: ASP.NET and http://validator.w3.org/

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 13:40 -0800 6/2/08, Big Moxy wrote: The w3 validator clearly is not compatible with Microsoft ASP.NET code. Here is an example - http://www.cargovango.com/start.aspx. All of the code that it flags is generated at run time. It's nothing that a developer adds. It's annoying because I can never

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: hand coders vs wsywig coders...I had no idea

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Robinson
So do most of you guys hand code? Or do you use a wsywig editor to help? Sorry Scott, but this is off topic. It's not that it's not an interesting topic, but rather that this list has 8500+ members and a purpose to discuss CSS, rather than one's choice of editor / scripting language /

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: [OT] who do I have to sleep with...

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Robinson
At 16:08 -0700 24/1/08, Dean Mah wrote: That would be an issue to take up with the css-d owner and moderators. evolt.org takes not manage the list, we only host it. There must be reasons for the list being completely moderated and I would suspect that the amount of time that a message is held

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Alex Robinson
A combination of display:table (Mozilla, Opera) and display:inline-block (IE) can cause a wrapper around floats to shrink-to-fit and thus be made amenable to being centered. However, Safari (neither 2 nor 3) does not do the shrink wrapping and so no centering occurs. As far as I know - I'd

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Clients new site built in tables

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Robinson
So here's the problem, my client is an agency that uses me for design work and I think they've wrongly invested their clients money on a table based site, when it should be all css. Anyone had a similar problem? This is off topic since it isn't a question about the nuts and bolts of actually

[css-d] [ADMIN - TOTALLY OUT OF ORDER] Re: Revisit our navigation layout semantic.

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Robinson
until Mark has actually made his points politely and cogently. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Selecting CSS file depending on Server using the HTML Page

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Robinson
to figure out where would be the right place to ask this question forum. No more posts to this thread please. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: denying the downloading of img

2007-12-12 Thread Alex Robinson
it is not on topic for this list. This thread is now closed. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List

Re: [css-d] list-item markers vertical-align: top ???

2007-12-09 Thread Alex Robinson
I want the marker centered on the first line of list-item text. The basic idea is as follows: ul { list-style-type: none; padding: 0; margin: 0; } li { background-image: url(bullet.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-left: 15px; } replacing the image url and padding-left with

[css-d] [ADMIN - PLEASE READ] was Re: problems with CSS and floats

2007-12-08 Thread Alex Robinson
, are these words of Eric's from the list policies which I think need repeating: Above all, if you can't answer with a modicum of respect, or without feeling somehow annoyed by the question, then DO NOT ANSWER AT ALL. OK? Alex Robinson css-d moderator

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: Rules for generating valid CSS

2007-12-06 Thread Alex Robinson
My four rules are: 1. No p tags within p tags. 2. No div, hr, h1 to h6, ul, or li tags inside p tags. 3. No p tags inside li or ul tags. 4. No empty p tags. Are those rules sensible from a validation point of view? This is about markup and validation of the resulting HTML and really doesn't

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: php sthe switcher for multiple style sheets

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Robinson
companies do exist), but the following query should get you started... http://www.google.com/search?q=css+style+switch+php Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] link image background problem w/IE 6 (natch)

2007-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
Please note that display:inline-block in invalid CSS2.1 but is valid CSS3. Actually it's valid CSS2.1 but not valid CSS2. Compare http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#display-prop

Re: [css-d] Reliable Opera-only filter?

2007-10-06 Thread Alex Robinson
Rare is the day Opera gets it wrong. @media screen and (min-width: 0px){ #foo { padding: ... ;} } This is hardly a long term fix. Safari 3 (due for release along with the next version of OS X within the next couple of weeks) will support media queries. To exclude it (and other browsers using

Re: [css-d] text leaders

2007-09-20 Thread Alex Robinson
I would like to have solid color leader before some text: In addition to Georg's (as always) sterling efforts, the css-d wiki has a few takes on dot leaders. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DotLeaders It should be fairly easy to figure out how to transform them from dotted to solid

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Do we like the same books?

2007-09-13 Thread Alex Robinson
... It is against Shelfari's policies to invite people who you don't know directly. ... As well as being utterly off topic. Buddhamagnet is now an ex-member of the list. Let this be a warning to any other css-d member who thinks spamming the list is a good way to kick start their social

Re: [css-d] * in css

2007-09-11 Thread Alex Robinson
* is the unversal selector. That means it matches all elements. And that means all elements (including html, head, body etc) #foo * selects any element which is a descendant of #foo. my guess is that the double asterisk is a typo or misunderstanding of css selectors. No. It's a common

Re: [css-d] IE6 Content Duplication

2007-08-30 Thread Alex Robinson
Most probably it is related to the double html comments in your file. Remove them. I've also found that using Conditional Comments (with the condition being anything but IE) works too !--[if !IE] I won't trigger the duplication ![endif]-- !--[if !IE] Nor will I ![endif]-- If you

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: color consistency, accuracy

2007-08-26 Thread Alex Robinson
I *do* think this is a CSS related problem just because we are so often trying to match text, borders, blocks of background color (all specified with CSS) to images which are generated from some image editing program or another. Off topic - no more on this subject please (except that as I'm

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Any good books on XSL?

2007-08-10 Thread Alex Robinson
At 21:50 -1000 9/8/07, david wrote: Any good books on XSL? At work, I'm going to need to be learning about XSL. Any good books? This has absolutely nothing to do with CSS. If anyone has any suggestions for David, they should send them to him directly. But no replies to the list, please.

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: When to use Image Replacement

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Robinson
so what's best practice for something like this? A good question, but one that has nothing to do with CSS per se. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic lists several other mailing lists where you might be better off asking such a question. Anyone with ant=ything to say to Lee on

Re: [css-d] Ways to create css pages

2007-08-02 Thread Alex Robinson
At 08:47 -0700 2/8/07, trevor bayliss wrote: Just a quick question to get some: when you design pages do you do it directly from notepad? I was thinking about the merits of using the dreamweaver tools to design the layout with divs and then get changing the code. Alternatively do people have

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: How would you semanticly write this? Layout

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Robinson
i was wondering whats the best way to semanticly write and style this List. Example: http://www.ceudex.de/test/content_events.jpg Martin [css-d] does not exist to discuss how you should go about marking up your content, but rather how to apply CSS to that markup. Semantics (and

Re: [css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Robinson
In my footer i have links that in the hover state are underlined. I can't see which links you mean. Could you be a bit more specific about ones you're on about? It's possible that you have been bitten by what I call fuzzy specificity http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/hacks/fuzzyspecificity

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Robinson
Sigh. I went off to peel some mangoes and didn't get round to posting the message that follows this. And I return to find it all kicking off. All I have to add to my message is that people should not engage in arguments about list etiquette on the list. Since it's part of the list etiquette

Re: [css-d] white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Robinson
Just trying to reduce speculations :-) Here: http://www.brunildo.org/test/test/IEhoverdesc.html ... In IE6 only the first works. Right, thanks for that Bruno. A most excellent test case. At last we have an actual sighting of the beast we've been hunting and can confirm that there is a bug.

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN] Re: white or #FFFFFF?

2007-07-10 Thread Alex Robinson
This entire list etiquette argument could have been avoided... But it wasn't. If you disagree with me or feel you have anything to say about list etiquette, then please write to the moderators' address and make your disagreement/opinions known there. [EMAIL PROTECTED] But not on list, ok?

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Mail sent not getting through

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:12 +0100 5/7/07, Marcus Taylor wrote: No. All good for me... On 5/7/07 11:10, kate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone having problems with mail delivery to the list? Thanks Kate From http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html If you suddenly stop receiving list mail, do not post a

Re: [css-d] Thread answered:What is the equivalent of font-size:11px?

2007-06-29 Thread Alex Robinson
But a really good way to get consistent fonts is to set body { font-size:62.5% } This along with other resets makes all your fonts equivalent to 10px. This not only allows you to make nice em sizes like 1.2em for 12 px etc. As long as the default font size in the user's agent is such that 100%

[css-d] [ADMIN - THIS THREAD HAS SLID WAY OFF TOPIC] Re: Weak layout

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Robinson
OK folks, enough is enough. Opinions about how browsers should handle zooming and text-resizing are not what this list exists for. Nor does the list exist for opinions about whether to use scalable or fixed sizes. Questions and help about how to achieve scalable or fixed solutions on the

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Word HTML Cleanup tools?

2007-06-07 Thread Alex Robinson
Anyone have a better solution? Yes. Posting to a general web development list rather than one which is specifically concerned with the practical application of CSS. You can find numerous useful lists here: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic And of course, there's always

[css-d] [ADMIN - PHP IS OFF TOPIC] Re: multiple similar pages with same navigation bar

2007-06-05 Thread Alex Robinson
is not on topic DO NOT POST IT TO THE LIST To go ahead and post something that you know to be off topic is totally rude and discourteous to the 8200+ members of the list. Amazingly enough, despite the amazing rate of change that we see on teh interwebs, that remains true today... Alex

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Web Standards - Why do we do it?

2007-05-31 Thread Alex Robinson
At 07:51 -0700 31/5/07, Jon Hughes wrote: Let me preface this email with this: I do not seek to bloat this list with discussion not related to CSS problems, so if you reply, use your discretion as to whether you reply directly to me, or include the list. If you know (or even suspect) that your

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: IE7 a la Dean Edwards

2007-05-17 Thread Alex Robinson
Actually there is quite a lot of stuff about Dean's IE7 on the web http://www.google.com/search?q=%22dean+edwards%22+ie7 At 14:16 -0700 16/5/07, Doug Jolley wrote: So, that brings me to my question which is: Does anyone know what's going on with DEIE7 and whether or not it's usable with

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: Please remove me from this list.

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Robinson
that gives the same information. Everybody else, return to your positions, be they absolute, static, fixed or relative... Best wishes Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Popups and script blocker in IE7

2007-05-11 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:25 -0400 11/5/07, jana coyle wrote: I am developing a site using a client side shopping cart. It requires cookies to be enabled and uses some Javascript. IE7 blocks the cart when it pops up and also blocks the script associated with the cart. Is there anything I can do about this?

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: cms CSS/XHTML

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Robinson
list wiki has some info that might be of interest to you though: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssFriendlyCms Please, no more posts on this subject Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE6 really is dead to me. Here is why.

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Robinson
frowns on opinions about the future state of CSS/browsers. We're here to discuss practical matters - there are plenty of other forums where people can and are welcome to vent off about why IE is teh big suck... http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PostingGuidelines Alex Robinson css-d

[css-d] [ADMIN - NO MORE IE6 IS DEAD/ALIVE COMMENTS] Re: Site check: formever.org

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Robinson
you might be, no one likes unsolicited smart aleck responses to questions they didn't even ask. So, anyhow, like the subject says, let's have no more of this IE6 is dead / alive / just resting nonsense... Alex Robinson css-d moderator

Re: [css-d] moderator - Can i mention an amazing new app for css? - I don't want to break the rules.

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Robinson
' address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

Re: [css-d] Safari miscalculating bottom for absolute positioning

2007-03-26 Thread Alex Robinson
Zoe, the problem seems to be related to #project-areas and #latest-news. Remove those two blocks and the problem goes away. As do the two blocks. Of the two blocks it's #project-areas which is doing the most damage. Try setting #project-areas p and #project-areas ul to display: none to see

Re: [css-d] IE7 special code

2007-03-23 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:34 + 23/3/07, Barney Carroll wrote: Wow! I've been under the false supposition that IE7 did not 'believe' in the nameless super-html object. How is it, then, that this works while the simple '* html' selector does not? Because while Microsoft fixed * html they introduced another

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Inline paragraph with headers

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
Actually, I think in this case (if it is a proper H5 tag), I'd go with: ph5Jeff Altemus - Director/h5 First and Second week/p and *then* add display:inline to the H5. etc, etc, etc I'm going to pass over the fact that some of these suggestions have been truly gruesome and move straight to

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Inline paragraph with headers

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Robinson
At 10:02 -0700 8/3/07, Michael Stevens wrote: WOW! That's pretty tight administration... I haven't seen a response yet that didn't have something to do with CSS. I beg to differ. However, until Eric shows up and says I was wrong, right or something in between, can people please not leap into

[css-d] [ADMIN - please read if replying to this thread] Re: expert system for CSS?

2007-02-15 Thread Alex Robinson
2) what do people think of trying to encode all this data / case studies on this list into some sort of expert system - i am thinking something where you could type in keywords or a description of your problem and the system serves of possible useful info and examples of problems solved? If

[css-d] [ADMIN] Apologies for spam appearing on list

2007-02-15 Thread Alex Robinson
Dear list You may have noticed a couple of spams appear on the list within the last hour. Someone is obviously taking the time to subscribe to the list since only messages from subscribed addresses get through to the list. Unfortunately, unless the message goes above 20k in size, there's no

Re: [css-d] Any way to remove MouseOver flicker in IE?

2007-02-07 Thread Alex Robinson
It's so slow I can watch the status bar as it says it's downloading the rollover image... again... and again... and again... Is there a solution? Painful I know, but fortunately the answer is that, yes, you can make those pesky flickers go away

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Any way to remove MouseOver flicker in IE? (going slightly OT)

2007-02-07 Thread Alex Robinson
to this list and they signed up to discuss the pratical use of CSS, not web design in general or any other topic. Anyone who has not already, should make sure to read and absorb the info here: http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic Alex

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Problem of color respect

2007-02-01 Thread Alex Robinson
Is there a way to force a navigator to display the same colours and contrats as the original ? (I suppose of course that the screen is able to display all the colors that are required) Samuel, I am afraid that this has nothing to do with CSS and has no place on this list. I suggest that you ask

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Javascript Bookmarking in Safari

2007-01-19 Thread Alex Robinson
At 12:46 -0500 19/1/07, Geoff Krajeski wrote: Does anyone know a method to bookmark in Safari using Javascript? I'm using this function currently, but cannot seem to find anything on a working model for adding in Safari/Mac: This list is for the discussion of CSS and CSS alone. Please take

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: [OFF-TOPIC] HTML email, R.I.P.

2007-01-11 Thread Alex Robinson
At 17:20 + 11/1/07, Barney Carroll wrote: This is clearly off-topic to CSS discussion While I agree that the bulk of Brian's message was not really on topic, the news about IE7's baby brother's html rendering is definitely worth its place on the list. That link again in case anyone didn't

Re: [css-d] Width and border issues-simple, I think

2007-01-08 Thread Alex Robinson
At 14:29 + 8/1/07, Barney Carroll wrote: Under the strictest rules, all negative number values for measurement are illegal. Not true. Negative values for margin properties are allowed, but there may be implementation-specific limits.

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: PR and the like

2007-01-08 Thread Alex Robinson
adwords? such as free press release sites, good banner exchanges etc? Please send any such info to Terry directly. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Unclickable password field

2006-12-22 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:04 + 22/12/06, Barney Carroll wrote: [http://bssh.test.textmatters.com/login/login_form] This is driving me absolutely insane. Under IE6, the password field is not clickable. I'm told this can't be anything other than a CSS issue, and I'm tempted to agree, although nothing I've tried

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: ? ? Site building with upload for text ? ?

2006-12-21 Thread Alex Robinson
At 14:29 + 21/12/06, Phil Turner wrote: Thanks David, its sorted. I have to quote on a job and Does anyone know if its possible to build css sites where the client can upload their own text? The simpler the better. I'm afraid that this question isn't really about CSS and so

Re: [css-d] Reference a form script in css somehow?

2006-12-07 Thread Alex Robinson
--is there a ways to insert by adding the cose below to jablum's css file? FORM ACTION=formtests2.html INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=keywords value = input type = SUBMIT name=go Value=Search /FORM Stephanie, I'm afraid you appear to misunderstand what CSS is and what CSS

Re: [css-d] One True Layout anchors

2006-12-06 Thread Alex Robinson
At 23:29 -0500 5/12/06, Diona Kidd wrote: Btw, has anyone implemented the One True Layout [1] and anchor links? I thought there might be a javascript or css solution for this short- coming but didn't have an idea on it. I presume you've read the relevant appendix:

Re: [css-d] Not sure how to do this in CSS.

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Robinson
.square20 { width: 20px; height: 20px; } .rect1040 { width: 40px; height: 10px; } #a1 { top: 30px; left: 100px; } #a2 { top: 50px; left: 50px; width: 20px; height: 50px; } #a3 { top: 50px; left: 100px; } Actually, I think that's more complex than needs be You don't need to specify the widths

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages

2006-11-28 Thread Alex Robinson
As the design planning forerunners of this project, my colleague and I have begun to look toward ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages as a solution to designing templates for the entire website. ASP and Master Pages don't have very much to do with CSS, so please take this question somewhere more suitable.

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: expanding submenu

2006-11-23 Thread Alex Robinson
Step away from the microphone... ...and relax The relative merits of CSS vs Javascript for creating menus are neither here nor there and the merits of particular javascript libraries are completely off the radar. As this thread has nothing to do with the practical nuts and bolts of CSS, it

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Consistent Cross platform font size

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
My apologies to the list - my instinct was wrong and I held off from stepping in earlier to stop this thread. This is getting way off-topic now, so I'm going to leave it at that. If you ever find yourself writing something like the above... ... STOP! DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT COLLECT 200 CSS-D

Re: [css-d] CSS/Dreamweaver question

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
Karen It would be better to ask such a question on a Dreamweaver mailing list, since this is a Dreamweaver-related question and not a CSS one. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14240 If anyone wants to answer Karen, please do so offlist. Alex css-d moderator

Re: [css-d] CSS/Dreamweaver question

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Robinson
At 10:45 -0700 16/11/06, Michael Stevens wrote: I don't think this is a Dreamweaver question. It looks to me as though she's asking what the difference or benefit is between formatting a paragraph as an h3 element or formatting it by span class=SanText90Centered when h3 and .SanText90Centered are

Re: [css-d] Triangles with content

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Robinson
At 08:43 -0500 9/11/06, Richard Pierce wrote: Thanks codepo. That would work if I could predefine the color triangles I want. Unfortunately, I can't- the colors need to be a user defineable option. I suppose I should have clarified- the colors of the triangles, as well as the text floating on top-

[css-d] [ADMIN- OFF TOPIC] Re: Blowtorches at the ready...

2006-10-31 Thread Alex Robinson
You're right, of course. But as much as this string isn't about chunks of code per se I think it's extremely important to discuss these issues (I believe you do too?) which I have found to be taboo in the community - but I think this is the place to have it (admin correct me here)... If not, would

Re: [css-d] Specifying CSS definition via HTML attributes IE6

2006-10-22 Thread Alex Robinson
Attribute selectors are part of CSS 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#attribute-selectors Whoops - David is absolutely right. It was only Substring matching attribute selectors that got added in CSS3. I plain forgot that attribute selectors predated that.

Re: [css-d] Specifying CSS definition via HTML attributes IE6

2006-10-20 Thread Alex Robinson
I have definitions like the one below... Which IE6 simply doesn't seem to acknowledge. form[id=resourceSelector] .resource.left {clear: left; margin-right: 2em;} Any help? As Christian has just pointed out, IE6 doesn't understand CSS3 attribute selectors (sidenote: IE7 does). However, your

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE7 release

2006-10-19 Thread Alex Robinson
$COMPANY rants please. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Are CSS Drop-down Menus Searchable

2006-10-05 Thread Alex Robinson
AJAX involved. OK, that's enough. This thread has gone far far enough. The usability of css menus is not really on topic. The desirability of ajaxing menus is definitely not. Please continue this discussion off list where it belongs. Alex Robinson css-d moderator

Re: [css-d] Named Anchor and disappearing menu

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Robinson
I did come up with a fix for Gecko gang which I posted here along with reservations http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/77165 Sent to fast, forgot something or two. 1/ the same problems affect recent WebKit (future Safari) builds and the just release Omniweb5.5. 2/ Nobody

[css-d] [ADMIN] Re: CSS best practice?

2006-08-31 Thread Alex Robinson
has anything further to add, please add it to the wiki page rather than on list. Alex Robinson css-d moderator __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: Are table-less layouts important - why?

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Robinson
At 13:27 -0700 17/8/06, Thomas Hall wrote: I was asked this question today by a fellow designer - Is there an advantage to the non-use of tables in SEO? As I am not sure how to best answer this question I thought I'd solicit the opinions of you experts. Thanks for any help on this. Tom I'm

Re: [css-d] Forms Best Pratices

2006-08-03 Thread Alex Robinson
/?page=OffTopic Also, please don't post essentially the same question again if no one has answered your initial post. Just be patient. Wait a couple of days. If no one has replied after that time, think about how you might ask your question better to get the answer you seek. Alex Robinson css-d

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: google shok horror

2006-07-28 Thread Alex Robinson
At 00:06 +0100 28/7/06, Dave Goodchild wrote: Has anyone ever noticed that the Google home page and gmail.com use tables for layout, deprecated elements, frames, font tags, body attributes like vlink and so on and are invalid xhtml? I am shocked (late night browsing with FF web dev toolbar). Can

Re: [css-d] PIE float calculation

2006-07-28 Thread Alex Robinson
Your calculations are right if, I presume by not adding up you mean that 35 + 65 = 100, but you have had to use -101% to shift the left nav column back in place. That is because of IE's rounding errors when dealing with element sizes set as percentages. Better would be to make #content 64.9%

[css-d] Are vendor specific properties valid CSS2.1?

2006-07-25 Thread Alex Robinson
My understanding of http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q4 is that vendor specific properties are perfectly valid (even if to be avoided). However, using them makes the W3's CSS validator go bonkers crazy. Is that just another failing of the validator or am I wrong about the validity

Re: [css-d] One True Layout problems (was Re: holy grail problems)

2006-07-21 Thread Alex Robinson
1/ Based on the most recent WebKit nightly builds (aka future Safari), adding {position:relative} to each column is a (possible) work around. This of course * is only true at the time of writing (WebKit is not a release version, but beta software; things may change ...) * is only

Re: [css-d] One True Layout problems (was Re: holy grail problems)

2006-07-20 Thread Alex Robinson
Thank you for your reply. The one true layout is really a beautiful solution Thank you. Of course it's really three separate solutions for three separate problems. And there is no Keyser Soze and there is no One True Layout ;) I can see how the anchor was overlooked. I showed you a

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