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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:43:44 pm PDT #575 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

From Sophia Brooks "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Sep 28, 2002 8:52:59 am EDT

Is it possible to add the HTML that makes us able to do the pretty links to the lovely HTML instruction pop-up?

Done! Also added to the how-to page.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:52:25 pm PDT #576 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

From John H "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Sep 28, 2002 8:07:48 pm EDT

I've just noticed, when trying to make an HTML list come out as

A)
B)
C)

that I can't, because Jon B's set an override for all List Items in the style sheet to

list-style-type: disc

Removed!


§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 8:53:17 pm PDT #577 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

God man, you're on fire!

resists urge to feel like a slacker

types "coding time" for this weekend in her PDA.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:56:38 pm PDT #578 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Whatever happened with that issue of font sizes not being able to be overwritten by browser preference? I thought I read a post where that was resolved, but now I can't find it. Was I supposed to change something in the style sheet?


§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 8:57:43 pm PDT #579 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No -- not resolved. It's the pixels in the stylesheet.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 9:05:13 pm PDT #580 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Well, changing pixels to points (i.e. px to pt) does not work. I just tried it and all the text got HUGE (I'm using Mozilla). If anyone knows how to fix this, I'm all ears.


Jessica - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:02 pm PDT #581 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Pixels and points are different size things, so you have to change the numbers too -- I've always just used trial-and-error until the sizes kinda matched. (The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.)


amych - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:41 pm PDT #582 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Proportional sizing. IJS.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 9:28:16 pm PDT #583 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.

See, that troubles me. I'd rather just leave things as is. And proportional sizing would make that situation worse, no? The style sheet would be providing no "baseline" font size.


Michele T. - Oct 07, 2002 10:31:23 pm PDT #584 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

I'm reasonably sure you can set a baseline with proportional, or that there's a preset one: I'm too tired to try to make sense of this link right now, but check this out [link]

I'm gonna have to try to find a 800/600 screen, but perhaps if the text-entry box were flush with the main column, would that work? Just a random thought.