Comments for James Hopkins

Comment on An apology by Helen

Helen — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:47:09 +0000

I’m really hoping one of the CSS3 modules they’re implementing is borders and backgrounds because I seem to spend a lot of time working around the fact that each HTML element can only have one background image. I’ve seen their rounded corners demo so fingers crossed they’re going to implement the rest of it as well.

Comment on Establishing a new method of float containment by Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:10:34 +0000

I’ve been thinking we need a dedicated property for this for a while. There are many times when I need to use overflow purely for it’s ability to expand containers around floated elements – but the catch kills designs as I can’t then position things outside of the box without clipping. Even text-shadow succumbs to it.

Comment on Establishing a new method of float containment by James Hopkins

James Hopkins — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:07:02 +0000

Rob, it appears you’ve missed the point of the post

99.9% of authors require a parent to encapsulate it’s floated child(ren), by default. Unfortunately, without utilizing one of the hacks I speak of in the post, this doesn’t happen. Therefore, the aim of the article is to describe present methods that authors have been forced to adopt in order to achieve their intention, and to also an offer informal proposal in the form of a new control, whose primary attribute is to contain floats in the way that BFCs currently do, whilst exibiting no other behavior. There are other modules that will supersede the float model, so the proposal of a new control should be seen as an interim solution, until it’s realistic for authors to adopt these new modules.

If you don’t believe there’s an issue, then I suggest participating in one of the current discussions on ww-style@w3.org and voicing your opinion there, too.

Comment on Establishing a new method of float containment by Rob

Rob — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:18:18 +0000

I’m wondering why you are looking for a solution to a non-problem. Float does exactly what it’s intended to do and, personally, I’m fine with that.

Comment on Downtime, shmowntime. by fromrussia

fromrussia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:36:39 +0000

hey-hey! that was russian guys from one IT portal from russia. The name of the portal is habrahabr (this name doesn’t make any sence on any language). This kind downtime caused by visitors of this portal & called habra-effect (:

cheers!

Comment on Downtime, shmowntime. by Doc

Doc — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:47:15 +0000

You’re welcome.

Comment on IE8 Bugs by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:19:11 +0000

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Comment on Removing all those pesky style element declarations in Drupal (to accommodate IE6) by Sam

Sam — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:59:37 +0000

Doesn’t work!

Comment on sshhhhh… IE has brought back the ‘filter’ property (without the prefix) in IE8 by Stomme poes

Stomme poes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:27:57 +0000

Test page still works with current IE8 without the ms prefix. I’m starting to think I don’t need it at all. I had just gone back to “fix” a bunch of pages but they work in IE8 without any extra -ms declarations.

Comment on Confirmed – IE8 will NOT support the Opacity property by Stomme poes

Stomme poes — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:24:00 +0000

I’ve been scouring the web, and everywhere it states this need for the -ms vendor extension. So today I was thinking “Oh yeah, I need to update our old contact pages which have this little stupid bit of opacity for the Lawlz so that it works with IE8″ …but when I took a look in IE8, it was already working!! I double-checked: no compatibility mode. I turned on the IE Developer thingie. By unchecking the regular CSS opacity declaration, nothing changed (as expected). By unchecking the regular (for IE7 and below) filter declaration, the opacity was gone. Meaning, IE8 IS using the old opacity filter declarations… !!
So, now I’m confuzled. I can post an example page.