RE: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >> Every other discussion group I participate in regards "clagnut" >> with derision. >> >> There is no good reason for anything other than font-size: 100%. > That's not an explanation. ALA published a follow-up by Richard on the sa

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread tee
On Jan 15, 2010, at 1:45 AM, Matthew Pennell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson > wrote: > Every other discussion group I participate in regards "clagnut" > With derision. > > There is no good reason for anything other than font-size: 100%. > > That's not an e

RE: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Also, please try our Opera Web Standards Curriculum section 27 entitled "CSS > basics", > written and contributed by Christian Heilmann. > > Here is the hyperlink to it: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/27-css-basics/ There are a bunch of typos in there. - Extra semi-colons, - The :first-lin

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > Every other discussion group I participate in regards "clagnut" > with derision. > > There is no good reason for anything other than font-size: 100%. > That's not an explanation. ALA published a follow-up by Richard on the same to

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Matthew Pennell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson > wrote: > > > I find it hard to take it seriously when it has > > body { font-size:62.5%; } in > > > > If you're going to snipe, it's a good idea to provi

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > I find it hard to take it seriously when it has > body { font-size:62.5%; } in > If you're going to snipe, it's a good idea to provide an explanation and say why you think something is a bad ide

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Frank Palinkas wrote: > Hi Marvin. > > Also, please try our Opera Web Standards Curriculum section 27 entitled "CSS > basics", written and contributed by Christian Heilmann. > > Here is the hyperlink to it: > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/27-css-basics/ I find it ha

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Frank Palinkas
Hi Marvin. Also, please try our Opera Web Standards Curriculum section 27 entitled "CSS basics", written and contributed by Christian Heilmann. Here is the hyperlink to it: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/27-css-basics/ Hope this helps you out a bit, Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards, Frank

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread tee
On Jan 14, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Hi Marvin, > > If you're looking for help on CSS and some reference materials then I can't > recommend the SitePoint CSS Reference [Located > at:http://reference.sitepoint.com/css] highly enough. And as Chris said, I'd > avoid W3Schools.com

RE: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Cooper
g in up to date tutorial materials. All the best, Andrew Cooper P.S This is my first reply in the WSG Mailing List! :) > Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:35:45 -0500 > From: ch...@cfajohnson.com > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] css tutorial > > On

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
tter than their HTML, I'd avoid w3schools like the plague! > - Original Message - From: "Marvin Hunkin" > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:56 PM > Subject: [WSG] css tutorial > > > > hi. > > well a member of blind geeks. > &g

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Burt
y, January 14, 2010 3:56 PM Subject: [WSG] css tutorial hi. well a member of blind geeks. and asked to write a short basic tutorial on css. did learn css in my web design course in 2007. and di use it a bit to tweek a web project recently. but my question is: what resources and what links to some

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Robert Turner
Hi Marvin, The w3schools tutorial is handy: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp The reference is useful too: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp Cheers, Rob Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. well a member of blind geeks. and asked to write a short basic tutorial on css. did learn css

[WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Marvin Hunkin
hi. well a member of blind geeks. and asked to write a short basic tutorial on css. did learn css in my web design course in 2007. and di use it a bit to tweek a web project recently. but my question is: what resources and what links to some tutorials to get a handle on how to write a short css tu