Re: [css-d] HTML email question

2013-10-17 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 17.10.2013 14:40 schrieb Hahnel, Fred (DET-MRM): Good morning all, I am writing a HTML responsive email template. Are you aware of the fact that e-mail clients are currently not reliably able to render modern HTML and CSS correctly at all? Outlook versions 2007 and 2010 e.g. use the ren

Re: [css-d] Bad web font display in Chrome and Opera?

2013-10-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Thanks everybody for your hints and suggestions. I apologize for the delay in answering; I had no time to care about my personal site for the last few weeks. Am 19.09.2013 22:31 schrieb Jukka K. Korpela: > Generally, font rendering is a rather complicated issue and depends > on operating system

[css-d] Bad web font display in Chrome and Opera?

2013-09-19 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello list In my new website http://www.markusernst.ch I use web fonts. Now I found that the appearance of these fonts is good in Firefox and IE, but quite poor in Chrome and Opera (on Windows 7). They are actually high quality fonts, the main text font is Dalton Maag's Aller, the alternativ

Re: [css-d] Firefox & the new pixel density ??

2013-07-10 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 09.07.2013 03:20 schrieb Janet Lynn Ford: > Firefox now returns what 'should be' the CSS delivered to a tablet in > portrait view. Am 09.07.2013 16:08 schrieb Greg Gamble: Are these issue from setting the zoom with text-only option being checked? I see site layout being busted when zoom is

Re: [css-d] responsive design

2013-06-18 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 17.06.2013 16:44 schrieb Olivia A: But for the web page layout by default, (with no media query applied) , when i resize down the pages "a propos.php" and "enregistrement.php"; the two containers (below the long picture ) which are floated elements don't float as it should, but instead there i

Re: [css-d] Best practices in only targeting only Styles needed for a page in an external style sheet?

2013-05-10 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 10.05.2013 14:56 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Le 10 mai 2013 à 02:46, Nancy Johnson a écrit : I have a question in the best practices for style sheet use and targeting only the styles needed for a specific page. @import? Less.js? mulitple stylesheets? As Cristian, I also use . @import w

Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of

2013-04-18 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 18.04.2013 16:39 schrieb Nancy Johnson: When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following code validated and now it doesn't. Why? Strange enough: the specs at WHATWG allow "main" as a value of @role in the section element: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/curren

Re: [css-d] substitute font for Myriad Pro

2013-03-22 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 22.03.2013 18:33 schrieb Alnisa Allgood: - font-family: "Myriad Pro", "Gill Sans", "Gill Sans MT", Calibri, sans-serif; - font-family: "MyriadProLightCondensed", "Gill Sans", "Lucida Grande", "DejaVu Sans Condensed", Arial, sans-serif; On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:24 AM, David

Re: [css-d] Select adjacent, but separately nested elements?

2013-03-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 15.03.2013 00:17 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Le 15 mars 2013 à 07:38, Markus Ernst a écrit : I wonder how people use the adjacent selector with HTML5 elements that need to be nested, as legacy browsers do not recognize the new elements, such as: ... ... The

Re: [css-d] Select adjacent, but separately nested elements?

2013-03-14 Thread Markus Ernst
+ .footer" does not match the elements. On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Markus Ernst wrote: Hello I have a structure of nested elements somehow like: ... This second section i

[css-d] Select adjacent, but separately nested elements?

2013-03-14 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello I have a structure of nested elements somehow like: ... This second section is not always present!! ... ... And the CSS: table { border-top: 3px dotted green; border-bottom: 3px dotted green; } #navi1

Re: [css-d] Viewport vs. device dimensions

2013-03-11 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 09.03.2013 07:20 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Le 9 mars 2013 à 00:49, Markus Ernst a écrit : In the www-style list, there is a discussion going on about handling media queries on rotatable devices. Some is about width/height/aspect radio vs. device-width/device-height/device-aspect

[css-d] Viewport vs. device dimensions

2013-03-08 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello In the www-style list, there is a discussion going on about handling media queries on rotatable devices. Some is about width/height/aspect radio vs. device-width/device-height/device-aspect-ratio. Is there any useful thing about knowing device-* values? I understand how to use media qu

Re: [css-d] responsive not being responsive with images

2013-01-18 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 18.01.2013 16:25 schrieb Al Sparber: On 1/18/2013 10:05 AM, Rob Emenecker wrote: Okay. Errors resolved. Still the same issues with the display on some mobile devices. :-S http://hairydogdigital.com To ensure nothing is overriding your rules, add this to your page and test: img { heigh

Re: [css-d] IE9: No (vertical) scroll bar

2012-12-23 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 22.12.2012 10:48 schrieb Tim Dawson: My page at the link below shows a vertical scrollbar in Fx17, Safari and Chrome, but not in IE9 (I've tried it on three computers in case there were a faulty installation). You could try to wrap the scrollbox table into a div, and apply overflow=scroll t

Re: [css-d] Background Image Not Showing in IE7/IE8

2012-11-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 15.11.2012 16:14 schrieb Elli Vizcaino: - Original Message - From: HMW Sales To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] Background Image Not Showing in IE7/IE8 On 11/15/2012 9:43 AM, Markus Ernst wrote: Am 15.11.2012 15

Re: [css-d] Background Image Not Showing in IE7/IE8

2012-11-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 15.11.2012 15:27 schrieb Elli Vizcaino: Here is my conditional comment in case you were wondering: At the page that you link to, I see this: Are sure you have actually posted the link to the page you have the problem with? __

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

2012-10-30 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 30.10.2012 17:36 schrieb Angela French: Is there a way (excluding using images for bullets) to style the bullet when it is a number or a letter? I'm trying to apply css to some footnotes I'm building. The notes themselves appear in a list at the bottom of my page where each list number (an

[css-d] Change the color of list markers

2012-10-03 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello Trying to change the color of list markers, I came across the ::marker pseudo element. Anyway, the following code does not seem to have an effect in any browser I have access to: li::marker { color:#364065; } I have not found anything on browser support for this pseudo element. Is t

Re: [css-d] @font-face: Buggy implementations in Firefox and Opera?

2012-08-02 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 04.05.2012 01:23 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Le May 4, 2012 à 12:26 AM, Markus Ernst a écrit : I used web fonts from Fonts.com for the first time, in a website that is both in German and Russian. As Fonts.com serves not only bold and italic variants, but also the latin-1 and cyrillic

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

2012-08-02 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 28.07.2012 13:58 schrieb Georg: On 28.07.2012 13:29, Markus Ernst wrote: http://www.rapid.ch/de/rapid-einachsgeraete/prospekte.html The headings here match the width of 3 image elements plus borders and the 2 margins between them. With space characters added to the margins, the width cannot

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

2012-07-28 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 27.07.2012 01:43 schrieb Georg: On 27.07.2012 00:46, Georg wrote: On 27.07.2012 00:18, Boray ERIS wrote: Is this a joke? Nope. It's CSS! ...an if you don't bother to test this old float-alternative at your end, here are a few examples. http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-

Re: [css-d] border-radius and image corners

2012-07-26 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 25.07.2012 14:43 schrieb John: The code below produces a round-corner in the lower left, but an image I place inside it doesn't have its lower left corner rounded..why is that? Besides the solution approaches already discussed, the "why" is because rounded corners of a container do not cli

[css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-26 Thread Markus Ernst
Hi Something that I asked myself for years already: If you have some floating boxes, you may want them to fill the available width and then continue at a next row. Now, if these boxes do not have a fixed height, this will result in rows that do not start at the left edge, as this example illu

Re: [css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-14 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 14.06.2012 03:33 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Why don't you keep it as an html table, and then change the display value of table, tbody, tr, td, etc to 'block' within a media query ? Merci Philippe! I was not aware of the fact that HTML table elements can also be turned into block element

[css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-13 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello I am not sure if this message has got through the technical problems, so I take the liberty to send it again - I apologize for the case it worked and just nobody had an answer. I have a form, which I put in a layout table: First section of the form: Mylabel

[css-d] CSS Tables and colspan

2012-06-11 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello First, thanks to the css-d makers for your efforts to get this great list back online! To my question. I have a form, which I put in a layout table: First section of the form: Mylabel ... (more label/input pairs) Other section, quite long title

Re: [css-d] media type not working with iphone -- and Android, either!

2012-06-06 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 06.06.2012 10:23 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: Le Jun 6, 2012 à 4:59 PM, Markus Ernst a écrit : I was just writing a similar post to this list when I saw yours. I have the same problem with my Android phone; I tried both the Android browser and Opera Mobile. The page in development is

Re: [css-d] media type not working with iphone -- and Android, either!

2012-06-06 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 06.06.2012 05:48 schrieb Rosie Williams: My first responsive design is at http://forkinthecode.bloople.net (index page only). I have made the responsive styles work in browsers but when I test it using my iPhone, it displays all of the content so it isn't picking up the styles for @media sc

Re: [css-d] -webkit-tap-highlight-color

2012-05-30 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 30.05.2012 01:19 schrieb Christian Ziebarth: I recently worked on a project where for the iPad I altered the -webkit-tap-highlight-color value to a value that would match the color scheme of the site (http://www.brianleatart.com). I then told the project manager what I did thinking she would t

Re: [css-d] display:block in Outlook 2007 & 2010

2012-05-21 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 21.05.2012 22:22 schrieb Jeff Reid: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:34 PM, J Mi wrote: Hey All, Does anyone know how to make the display:block attribute work in Outlook 2007& 2010 for images? I used inline-style sheets and it doesn't work. This may help you some: http://www.campaignmoni

Re: [css-d] @font-face question

2012-05-03 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 03.05.2012 17:45 schrieb Tom Livingston: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Markus Ernst wrote: Am 03.05.2012 17:24 schrieb Tom Livingston: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: If I'm using "

Re: [css-d] @font-face: Buggy implementations in Firefox and Opera?

2012-05-03 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 03.05.2012 17:33 schrieb Tom Livingston: Does the font include all the characters? Was is a minimum subset? Maybe that's it? Just guessing... No, the characters in question are part of the character set specified in the first @font-face declaration. They also appear correctly in Internet E

Re: [css-d] @font-face question

2012-05-03 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 03.05.2012 17:24 schrieb Tom Livingston: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: If I'm using "RobotoBold" - custom font - in my stack on an for example, I have to spec font-weight: normal; as well because otherwise

[css-d] @font-face: Buggy implementations in Firefox and Opera?

2012-05-03 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello I used web fonts from Fonts.com for the first time, in a website that is both in German and Russian. As Fonts.com serves not only bold and italic variants, but also the latin-1 and cyrillic language options with different family names, I had to write my own @font-face declarations, that

Re: [css-d] trouble with my IE 9 64-bit v

2012-04-12 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 12.04.2012 17:28 schrieb David Laakso: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Greg Wilker wrote: -Original Message- From: On Behalf Of David Laakso Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] trouble with my IE 9 64-bit v On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Greg Wilker wr

Re: [css-d] How to make a div fill the height of an iframe

2012-03-30 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 30.03.2012 05:50 schrieb Luis Cabral: I am re-posting my question below, I hope it displays properly this time. Hello, I have the following scenario: - An iframe that has fixed width and height and is absolutely positioned in the middle of the screen (simulating a modal pop up window) -

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-09 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 09.03.2012 09:12 schrieb Ghodmode: http://www.ghodmode.com/testing/dthorp/zstripes/v3 That's very cool! I have no IE10 to test, though. I also like the ellipsis thing. If you remove the 10% from the first-child of the rows, the effect is even more impressing, when some longer words are in

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 08.03.2012 06:22 schrieb David Thorp: Hi all, Another question on my current project... Again, first, here's the code: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css Also look at this image for

Re: [css-d] :: makeready ::

2012-03-06 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 06.03.2012 01:31 schrieb David Laakso: First pass: desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile [signature link].. Your constructive comments and suggestions are always appreciated. I like it. 2 points that came to my mind: - I personnally would prefer to have the main navigation on every page, so I ca

Re: [css-d] Finding fallback fonts (for Calibri)

2012-03-05 Thread Markus Ernst
On 5 March 2012 11:01, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: I tried to play a bit with font-size-adjust, too, but it's apparently still a Firefox-only feature and might not even be suitable for this. Any value seems to either make Arial too small or Calibri too big. If the same value for font-size-adjust l

Re: [css-d] Need help with space between nav bar and content

2012-02-26 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 27.02.2012 06:25 schrieb Theresa Jennings: Here's a sample of the interior pages (the home page is handled a little differently): http://mdh-test.com/HealthySkin/Healthy_Skin_Story.shtml Style sheets, so you don't have to look for them: mdh-test.com/HealthySkin/main.css mdh-test.com/Health

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

2012-02-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 15.02.2012 22:21 schrieb Rory Bernstein: Hello All, I am working on a site that has a big IE8 layout problem. Here is the working prototype: http://donaldstark.ehclients.com/ You seem to have some nesting problems in your HTML code: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdonaldstar

Re: [css-d] Rounded corners do not apply to child elements

2012-02-09 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 09.02.2012 11:38 schrieb Desi Matlock: Do you think it would make sense to raise this in www-style? Definitely not, what if you want another div inside that is only a few pixels smaller, with another set of similar rounded corners? Would you want to force that div to occur within a force

Re: [css-d] Rounded corners do not apply to child elements

2012-02-09 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 09.02.2012 11:05 schrieb Jukka K. Korpela: 2012-02-09 11:54, Markus Ernst wrote: I encountered that rounded corners do not seem to apply to child elements: Right. Is this the expected behavior? I did not find anything on the behavior of child elements in the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR

[css-d] Rounded corners do not apply to child elements

2012-02-09 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello! I encountered that rounded corners do not seem to apply to child elements: .roundCorners { width:500px; height:200px; margin:1em auto; background:yellow; -moz-border-radius:15px; -webkit-border-radius:15px; border-radius:15px; } .roundCorners div { width:200px; height:20

Re: [css-d] Flexible inside inside a wide div

2012-02-01 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 01.02.2012 13:04 schrieb Chris Blake: I have a 1920 wide div containing an image slide show. Inside that div are the controls. At the moment they sit in a 940px wide container, but i want the 'previous' and 'next' buttons to float either side of the browser. Fixed does this but I don't want t

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

2012-01-25 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 25.01.2012 11:04 schrieb Ghodmode: I think we're going around in circles. This matches my impression. It shows that an em is as wide as it is tall, but it's not the size of the letter 'm'. As described in the spec, the em unit is defined as the font size. "em" is maybe not the best of a

Re: [css-d] TwoQuestions: min/max-width, change layout with width

2012-01-25 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 24.01.2012 10:07 schrieb Felix Miata: On 2012/01/23 10:35 (GMT+0800) Ghodmode composed: 960px is a good max width... for most site visitors. ...where "most" is as little as 50% + 1 of today's visitors. Is there statistical evidence for any of these two statements? OTOH, the em unit bea

Re: [css-d] iframe troubles

2012-01-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 14.12.2011 02:05 schrieb Philippe Wittenbergh: On Dec 14, 2011, at 2:37 AM, Deighan, John wrote: For some reason, when I try to create a position:fixed iframe element, it gets an arbitrary height instead of filling to the bottom of the viewport as I think it should. A sample HTML page is b

Re: [css-d] question on space at bottom of page

2011-07-22 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 21.07.2011 15:44 schrieb Alan Gresley: Out of curiously, can you please tell me what the following CSS is for. /* To prevent jumping */ html { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; } I have seen this before as a recommendation how to force a scrollbar, in order to prevent centered contents

Re: [css-d] OT: Protecting pictures

2011-04-26 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 26.04.2011 06:19 schrieb Chetan Crasta: How do you guys protect your images on the web? I normally don't bother trying to "protect" images because all the methods can be circumvented. But if a client insists on it, I use this technique: I overlay an absolutely positioned, transparent, div ov

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-31 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 31.03.2011 13:12 schrieb Barney Carroll: But even from that angle, can this be considered good practice? Isn't it contrary to the specification's intentions in forbidding digit-led identifiers using the standard methods? Would you genuinely suggest this advice to the OP, or is this purely an

[css-d] Automatic resizing of textareas and contenteditable elements

2011-03-31 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello Some days ago I encountered that Firefox 4 and Google Chrome implement the resize property: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#resizing They default the textarea element to resize:both, which is IMO a nice usability boost. Now there are websites such as Facebook that use scripting to dynami

Re: [css-d] Web Pages Shift

2011-03-30 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 30.03.2011 09:25 schrieb PL: Bob, I am indebted to you for this bit of information! Thank you. It solved the problem so easily that I am amazed. I had never heard of this, but googled it to see what it was. I dropped some code onto the bottom of my css sheet without really understanding where

Re: [css-d] Scrollable table body again

2011-03-29 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 28.03.2011 23:43 schrieb Markus Ernst: I had to implement a table with a scrollable body and a fixed header for a client. [...] Has there been any movement on this topic since then? While it might be difficult from an implementation POV - from an authoring POV it would look consistent to me

Re: [css-d] Scrollable table body again

2011-03-29 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 29.03.2011 15:11 schrieb Barney Carroll: The problem is that jQuery dynamically introduces styles properties per-element and attaches them via the object's style attribute. You could over-ride this with !important print rules though. Cool! I was not aware of the fact that !important is power

Re: [css-d] Scrollable table body again

2011-03-29 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 29.03.2011 14:18 schrieb HallMarc Websites: Seem to be missing a link to your instance. Sure: http://www.wisental-horgen.ch/angebot/suche.php (I am aware of the fact that the page does not validate. The errors are the target attribute, which is re-allowed in HTML5, and the outputted by P

[css-d] Scrollable table body again

2011-03-28 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello I had to implement a table with a scrollable body and a fixed header for a client. While searching for solutions I found an approach that seems to work ok, but requires fixed column widths: http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bigFourVersion.html Another one, discussed in this list, allows f

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

2011-03-15 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 15.03.2011 17:14 schrieb Gabriele Romanato: With the final release of IE 9 and the good work behind IE 8, I think it's time to move on: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/03/stop-supporting-ie-6-and-7.html I don't want to read other mails about ie6 and 7 on this list anymore :-) please... :-)