Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson ch...@cfajohnson.comwrote: 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

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-line and

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 ch...@cfajohnson.com wrote: Every other discussion group I participate in regards clagnut With derision. There is no good reason for anything other than font-size: 100%.

RE: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson ch...@cfajohnson.com 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

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

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Doug Burt
Marvin, You may want to try checking out the W3Schools at http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp That site should provide you with way more than enough information to do a couple of tutorials.. Cheers, DougB - Original Message - From: Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com To:

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Doug Burt wrote: Marvin, You may want to try checking out the W3Schools at http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp That site should provide you with way more than enough information to do a couple of tutorials.. Unless their CSS tutorial is better than their HTML,

RE: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Cooper
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 Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Doug Burt wrote: Marvin

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 like

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 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 hard to

Re: [WSG] css tutorial

2010-01-14 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson ch...@cfajohnson.comwrote: I find it hard to take it seriously when it has body { font-size:62.5%; } in http://dev.opera.com/css/screen.css If you're going to snipe, it's a good idea to provide an explanation and say why you think

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 ch...@cfajohnson.comwrote: I find it hard to take it seriously when it has body { font-size:62.5%; } in http://dev.opera.com/css/screen.css If you're going to snipe, it's a good idea