Re: [css-d] OT: What to do now Webdesign-l is gone

2017-08-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
or be more useful in general, however incremental or radical, please send them to me off-list-- we don't need to clutter up the list itself. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] td:nth-child(2) negation?

2017-08-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
27;td' that's a child of another 'td' and I don't think that's a thing. Could you provide some markup samples to illustrate cases where you do and don't want selection to occur? -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __

Re: [css-d] CSS Grid Question

2017-07-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
r grid.. so, yes, you can have grids in your grid to grid a grid over a grid. I swear that made sense when I typed it. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-di

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS variables (no preprocessors)

2017-05-18 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 18 May 2017, at 19:26, Reese wrote: Wow, the formatting on that got clobbered. Will probably get clobbered on this email also. How long has that been happening? Hard to say. What formatting got clobbered? You initial post didn't look mangled to me. -- Eric A. Meyer -

Re: [css-d] vw and vh units -- how does one learn of developments in the CSS spec. such as these ?

2017-04-05 Thread Eric A. Meyer
w way more than me: <http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2012/05/15/defining-ch/> -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/F

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, for anyone viewing source. My memory of things from that far back is regrettably splintered. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d L

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
eel like trying to calculate the light values of those colors. Hmmm... -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
idn't check to see how they looked. I believe gradients can be animated, but working out how to do that in a semi-convincing manner would be a challenge. I'd love to see what you come up with! -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ _

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
> On Mar 17, 2017, at 13:16, John Beales wrote: > > I remember seeing some demos a couple of years back of using CSS > gradients to make a curtain/drape, but my Google skills aren't turning > up anything, so I'm hoping the list's collective memory and/or > bookmarks will help. You might be thin

Re: [css-d] An Example of Gradients for a Curtain

2017-03-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 17, 2017, at 13:16, John Beales wrote: > > I remember seeing some demos a couple of years back of using CSS > gradients to make a curtain/drape, but my Google skills aren't turning > up anything, so I'm hoping the list's collective memory and/or > bookmarks will he

Re: [css-d] align 4 divs horizontally

2016-03-30 Thread Eric A. Meyer
t flexbox would handle extremely well. Something as simple as this might work: div.col-xs-10 {display: flex; align-items: center;} It's possible you might have to unset a lot of Bootstrap CSS to prevent interference, but hopefully not. -- Eric A. Meyer -

Re: [css-d] Flexbox Fallback to Justify Nav Items with Equal Spacing

2015-12-31 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ny guidance. The centered fallback is OK, but I'd really prefer an equally spaced, fully justified look. ___ RICK GORDON [http://www.theshelterblog.com](http://www.theshelterblog.co

[css-d] [ADMIN] Hello, my friends, hello

2015-12-23 Thread Eric A. Meyer
If anyone has strong feelings that it should be one of the other two options, or a fourth option I didn't list, feel free to let me know off-list. I may not be able to respond to every message, but I will read them all. I expect to make a final decision on or before January 10, 2016. Wh

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Automatic Reply: Re: css-d Digest, Vol 147, Issue 2

2015-02-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
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[css-d] ADMIN: erroneous subscription

2014-10-08 Thread Eric A. Meyer
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Re: [css-d] ADMIN: The notorious email

2014-05-03 Thread Eric A. Meyer
to look at any evidence people can glean regarding the source of the messages, because I'd like to stop them too. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Chrome Extension to PSD

2014-03-12 Thread Eric A. Meyer
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Re: [css-d] Interesting read

2014-01-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
;https://twitter.com/vlh/status/423088470781726722>. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: [OT] CSS/HTML Work Needed

2014-01-04 Thread Eric A. Meyer
our patience with my sometimes tardy admin posts. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incuti

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Start at the bottom!

2013-10-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
mming are what they are, I will try to be better about reminding people offline to trim wasteful overage, and Holy Wars are still always off-topic. If necessary, I will go add this to the official list of Holy Wars on the wiki, but I hope it won't be necessary. -- Eric A. Meyer -  Co-fo

Re: [css-d] Start at the bottom! (was "Front page breaking in IE8, maybe 9 too")

2013-10-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, and we've always striven to avoid such "Holy Wars" on this list because they're inevitably more noise than signal. All I ask is that, whatever your reply style, you trim the quoted material to include only that which is relevant and absolutely necessary to yo

Re: [css-d] Two classes, two conflicting rules, which wins ?

2013-10-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
l that, two rules are still in conflict, THEN the order they're written in matters. There's a little bit more to the story, once you take into account inheritance and the lack of a notion of element proximity in the document tre

Re: [css-d] Two classes, two conflicting rules, which wins ?

2013-10-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ght, OR specificity, then the order they're listed in the CSS is irrelevant.) -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FA

Re: [css-d] Font-size affecting line-height?

2013-10-02 Thread Eric A. Meyer
tly astonished that pages full of text get rendered at all. Anyway, hopefully all this has illuminated some of the corners of this topic (plus your testcase) without damaging too much of your sanity. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Gggfcnjsheyl beggigpk. Nnkkknkkkn.

2013-09-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
to attempt some level of visual consistency, I decided to refrain. This time. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: automated response

2013-08-13 Thread Eric A. Meyer
Folks, please let John's mistake serve as a reminder that when you set an email autoresponder, you should exempt any mailing lists to which you belong, lest you run afoul of a list's community policies and suffer the consequences. The More You Know™! -- Eric A. Meyer - http://me

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Just testing

2013-08-12 Thread Eric A. Meyer
On 12 Aug 2013, at 10:52, Eric A. Meyer wrote: Normally I frown heavily on people posting test messages to the list, but given that I've had reports of bounces, seen some odd behaviors in related services, and no traffic in a couple of weeks, I felt I should test the list. If this

[css-d] ADMIN: Just testing

2013-08-12 Thread Eric A. Meyer
lease ignore it entirely, and accept my apologies for the unfortunate noise. -- Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] what should go in html{ } ?

2013-06-28 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 20:33 +0300 6/28/13, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2013-06-28 19:34, Eric A. Meyer wrote: In CSS terms, the user agent applies a style of 'a:link {color: blue;}'. (Where 'blue' really means $USER_PREFERENCE but CSS doesn't have variables. Yet. We'll stick w

Re: [css-d] what should go in html{ } ?

2013-06-28 Thread Eric A. Meyer
user agent styles even when the author style has a lower specificity. (Assuming they are both of normal weight, anyway. If not, things get a touch ambiguous under CSS2 and a touch funky under the latest draft of the relevant CSS3 module.) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), L

Re: [css-d] what should go in html{ } ?

2013-06-27 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, the reader, or the user agent (browser). Inherited values have no specificity-- not zero, none at all. Assigned values always have some level of specificity. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously.&quo

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Zach Byrd

2013-06-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ring the hammer down. Meantime, if anyone works out a way to send airhorn blasts to any user via TCP/IP, let me know. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martin

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: from michael ray enjoy!

2013-06-10 Thread Eric A. Meyer
st members with Yahoo addresses... but tomorrow is another day. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff

Re: [css-d] linear-gradient

2013-06-06 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ully makes it a little more clear: <http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2012/04/26/lineargradient-keywords/>. (Note that it's from April 2012, so some of the "this is how browsers behave right now" bits may no longer be accurate.) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eri

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Join me on Fancy

2013-05-26 Thread Eric A. Meyer
rself forcibly unsubscribed from said mailing lists. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) _

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: ★ Css D, Mark left a message for you

2013-05-26 Thread Eric A. Meyer
lso also that Badoo, whatever that is, should be denounced and shunned by all right-thinking citizens of the world. Carry on, everyone, and sorry for the noise. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken ser

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: (no subject)

2013-05-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ship rolls) and move on with life. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: link

2013-03-18 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ount to be held for approval. No, I'm not going to do that. But I've been tempted. Anyway, sorry once more for the noise. Carry on. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martin

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Stephen Davis

2013-03-03 Thread Eric A. Meyer
her way, I hope I can find a way to deal with it soon. As usual, I'm open to any suggestions-- feel free to send them to me offlist, especially if you have expertise with Mailman. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and ele

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Ram

2013-02-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
...and another spammer is booted from the list. Sorry for the noise. I may need to look into advanced Mailman filtering. Anyone have a pointer to a good primer? -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seri

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Hey!

2013-02-05 Thread Eric A. Meyer
mpromised. Sorry for the noise, folks. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css-d

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS linear gradient in Android tablet not extending to bottom of page

2013-01-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ded of my error and (with luck) learn from it. -- Eric A. Meyer (e...@meyerweb.com) http://meyerweb.com/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS linear gradient in Android tablet not extending to bottom of page

2013-01-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
s policies, then you are welcome to rejoin. If not, then please feel free to assign all the blame to me and abstain from further subjecting yourself to the indignity of dealing with me. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (e...@meyerweb.com) http://me

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS linear gradient in Android tablet not extending to bottom of page

2013-01-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
adients is interesting, and I hope it gets an informative answer. I'd investigate it myself if I had an Android tablet handy. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kos

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
rning happens to be the eleventh anniversary of css-discuss. Party hats all 'round!) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: New Thread: The REM unit vs. EM's vs. PX's...

2013-01-24 Thread Eric A. Meyer
estate the purpose of the list in case it helps with focus (if help is needed; I'm still trying to figure that out): "Practical discussions of CSS and its use". That is, how to use CSS in the real world, with awareness of one's real-world users and the limitations we

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

2012-12-06 Thread Eric A. Meyer
t the best place to store them and replace the broken links. (In at least a few cases, I may just substitute the images with straight text.) -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- M

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

2012-10-31 Thread Eric A. Meyer
and if anyone on the list needed this, now they know what to do. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) ___

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Position Opening

2012-10-18 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ts, and other venues for helping stimulate your local economy. Check them out." If you've read over the policies and you're still not sure whether something should be announced on the list, please contact me to ask. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
t out, the specification says that floating forces a change of display role, but I'm pretty sure not every browser properly did so in the early days. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: (no subject)

2012-10-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
Sorry for the repeated spam, folks. The offending account has been kicked and banned, to revive a bit of IRC-speak. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://ma

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: (no subject)

2012-07-03 Thread Eric A. Meyer
Sorry for the spam, folks. The offending account has been unsubscribed and banned. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://ma

Re: [css-d] [OT] how hard would it be...

2012-04-10 Thread Eric A. Meyer
st likely used to working in American due to their fields of study and the fact that most programming languages were (still are) basically American in language. Not that there's anything there that can help us with practical uses of CSS, but it's an interesting bit of co

Re: [css-d] .

2012-01-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
. Unfortunately the mailing list software doesn't support body content filters. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Zachary Uram added your name to the Academia.edu directory of academics

2011-07-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ture mails from the service. (I hope.) Remember, folks, every time you let a social service harvest your address book, God kills a baby lemming. So don't do it. The baby lemmings have a hard enough life as it is. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is mu

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: (no subject)

2011-07-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
s but no system is perfect, so I'll apologize in advance for any I don't catch. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- M

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: [OT] Why no HTML

2011-07-20 Thread Eric A. Meyer
this particular thread is now closed. Thanks. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: (no subject)

2011-06-19 Thread Eric A. Meyer
compromised or a spammer signing up for the list, but either way the account's been unsubscribed so hopefully that will be the last of it for a while. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously."

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: automated response

2011-06-16 Thread Eric A. Meyer
if he'd like to sign up via a personal account, he's welcome back-- but please, folks, remember that when you set up an autoresponder, you need to blacklist all your mailing lists. Otherwise you get into a situation like this one. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List C

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Nothing from CSS-D lately?

2011-05-16 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ly the problem will soon be fixed and nobody will have to do so, but just in case, that's the way to handle it. Apologies to all for the instability, and many thanks for your patience. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and ele

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: jenslists

2011-05-05 Thread Eric A. Meyer
I'll have to go back to making all new subscribers moderated, but if the spamming continues, I'll have little choice. Anyway, apologies for the noise. Carry on. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be

Re: [css-d] Using CSS to control width of page.

2011-04-23 Thread Eric A. Meyer
-colon is a separator in CSS, not a terminator. That is hands-down the best (as in most accurate and concise) explanation of the semicolon's role in CSS that I've ever seen. I'm definitely filing that one away for future use. Thank you! -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/e

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Stop supporting IE 6 and 7

2011-03-15 Thread Eric A. Meyer
avior. Unfortunately delivery delays may allow a few more posts to trickle in over time. I'd stop them if I could, and I should have acted sooner to do so. For that I apologize to the community. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting

Re: [css-d] ADMIN Stop supporting IE 6 and 7

2011-03-15 Thread Eric A. Meyer
or version numbers. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css-discuss [css

Re: [css-d] The point of resets?

2011-02-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
7/05/15/formal-weirdness/>.) Understanding exactly what those resets do, and, from there, discovering the browser differences that I need to "set" was my first real break-through with using CSS. That's awesome, David! I couldn't have hoped for any better than that. --

[css-d] ADMIN: Reply setting (was Re: font-size html)

2011-02-22 Thread Eric A. Meyer
is "sorry, but no". See http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Css_Discuss_List_Headers for more detail. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martin

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: font-size html

2011-02-22 Thread Eric A. Meyer
let 'html' be styled but it's been so long I've forgotten which ones. If anyone has come across browser bugs regarding styling 'html', that would be interesting to hear. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is mu

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: wiki (was: Printing in points)

2011-02-11 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, so I hope that one day we'll look back at all this and laugh. At least until the sedatives kick in. Thanks for bearing with us. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously.&qu

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-08 Thread Eric A. Meyer
in relation to the right or bottom edges of the cell, you may have to get creative with heights and widths and so on. If you only care about top and/or left, you can skip all that. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: modernizer usage

2011-02-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 6:07 PM + 2/7/11, Barney Carroll wrote: This is a Javascript issue. Agreed, which makes it off-topic for this list. People should feel free to continue it off-list, but here the thread needs to end. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "C

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: HTML5 and CSS3

2011-01-19 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ver. I don't mind discussions about ways to style (and challenges with styling) the new HTML5 elements, of course. But arguing about the language itself is off-topic here and should be avoided. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS Sprite Generator

2011-01-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ons. And now let us please drop all this before I have to resort to more active measures. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kos

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS Sprite Generator

2011-01-07 Thread Eric A. Meyer
e to unsubscribe." - http://css-discuss.org/policies.html#ask-answer Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously.&qu

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CFP: Tools and Techniques in Software Development Process

2011-01-03 Thread Eric A. Meyer
for the static, everyone. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css-discuss [cs...@li

Re: [css-d] body has a top-margin that I can not figure out

2010-12-29 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ng-margins If that proves too daunting, as W3C specifications often are, <http://complexspiral.com/publications/uncollapsing-margins/> might be of assistance. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken ser

Re: [css-d] the box that clears float can't have margin?

2010-12-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
say, '1px' then you'd see the top margin in full force. As Tim says, the usual solution is to set your ten pixels on the bottom margin(s) of the floated element(s), not the top of the cleared element. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "

Re: [css-d] should this class override my other one?

2010-12-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
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Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Eric A. Meyer
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Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Has anyone used www.webtype.com?

2010-10-19 Thread Eric A. Meyer
things stand, none of that nor anything faintly resembling it is happening, and so the thread needs to end now. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://ma

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float

2010-10-05 Thread Eric A. Meyer
'inherit' wasn't officially a 'clear' value when the 3ed. came out in 2007. Either way, I'll do my best to make sure I correct that in the fourth edition. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too inter

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-23 Thread Eric A. Meyer
7em;} The numbers there are just wild guesses, so adjust to taste; and I imagine there would be a bit more needed to fine-tune the placement and appearance of the numbers. But I think that basic approach should work for what you're trying to do. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/),

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Off topic, web hosting help

2010-08-26 Thread Eric A. Meyer
breakfast cereals. So, end of thread. Also, I fervently hope, end the of recent rash of off-topicness. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Out of the stone age

2010-08-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
has questions or concerns about my administration of the list is always free to contact me off-list at css-d-ow...@lists.css-discuss.org or at the personal address I'm using to post this message. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too inte

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Out of the stone age

2010-08-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
ion is how to use CSS to make the form look better. Since it wasn't, so far as I can tell, the thread is therefore ended. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kos

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Any good CMS platforms?

2010-08-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
CSS. But it's not a place to debate the non-CSS merits of CMSes. Therefore the thread is now at an end. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- M

Re: [css-d] How do you identify a capable UI designer?

2010-08-13 Thread Eric A. Meyer
would, in fact, be the appropriate venue for the original question. Let's not take the thread any further here. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously.

Re: [css-d] Opacity question...

2010-05-24 Thread Eric A. Meyer
will in pretty much anything else of recent vintage. Alternatively, you could create a smallish PNG which is all white and has 50% opacity and drop it into the background of the div. That will work in all current browsers including IE/Win. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chape

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

2010-05-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
t's better to help her figure out how to do so. Ellen, I second the recommendation for Phillipe's IE5/Mac page at <http://l-c-n.com/IE5tests/hiding/>. I've seen none better. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too inter

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: My Services

2010-05-19 Thread Eric A. Meyer
tions." Please do not respond to the original message on the list, as doing so will only encourage more such behavior in the future. Thank you. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- M

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Ticket troubles (followup)

2010-05-11 Thread Eric A. Meyer
g and I'll do what I can. Thank you all for your patience and understanding! I sincerely hope I won't need any more of it for a while. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously.&quo

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Ticket troubles

2010-05-11 Thread Eric A. Meyer
antime, if you post to the list and do get a support ticket message from Midphase, just ignore/delete it. Basically, treat it as though it's spam that managed to beat your countermeasures. With luck we won't have to deal with it for more than a day or three. [1] http://www.goo

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: [Fwd: Re: [#24488699] Anchor offset ?]

2010-05-10 Thread Eric A. Meyer
that no 'midphase' or 'mpcustomer' addresses are currently subscribed. As a general note, when things like this happen, please contact the list administrators at css-d-ow...@lists.css-discuss.org (as listed in the headers of every message; look for 'List-H

Re: [css-d] link trickery

2010-05-06 Thread Eric A. Meyer
a:visited { text-decoration: none; cursor: text;} You could also do 'color: inherit' if that would set the color to match surrounding non-link text. Otherwise you could explicitly set a neutral color. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is m

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: a warning for Gmail users

2010-04-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
d set up a "send to segment" messages as I would have ideally only mailed the Gmail and googlemail accounts. Alas! Anyway, I don't want this to become a great big thread of off-topicness, so if I erred in the posting, I apologize. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/),

[css-d] ADMIN: a warning for Gmail users

2010-04-21 Thread Eric A. Meyer
he list, but a quick search reveals that just over 2,600 of you-- nearly a third of the list-- have Gmail addresses. If you're one of those people, please check your outbox to make sure you haven't become an unwitting spammer and consider taking steps like changing your password.

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Amrinder Sandhu has invited you to Dropbox

2010-04-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
yet another example of how the whole "let us raid your entire address book to mail-blast everyone you know" anti-pattern is a net negative. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Marti

Re: [css-d] Opa

2010-04-09 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 10:00 AM +0100 4/8/10, Val Dobson wrote: >Reported to Google Sites for abuse. Oh, good idea! That hadn't occurred to me. I was just going to leave it at booting-and-banning the address. Sorry for the noise, folks. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaper

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: quotation patterns (was: Die focus, die!)

2010-03-25 Thread Eric A. Meyer
isn't generally something for which I put people under moderation, or anything like that. Finally, reaching the list administrators is easy: mail css-d-ow...@lists.css-discuss.org. Now you know-- and knowing is half the battle. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chape

[css-d] The css-d wiki REBORN!

2010-03-11 Thread Eric A. Meyer
, as seen on the wiki. I'm rather proud of it. Enjoy! -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone "CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously." -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) ___

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: amirabbas.abdolali has invited you to Spokeo

2010-03-08 Thread Eric A. Meyer
etimes, you end up spamming 8,500+ people you don't personally know from all over the world. Reason #48: it will get booted from the community as a result. As the posters in my junior high school wood shop class used to say, don't let this happen to you. -- Eric A. Meyer (htt

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