Posted by Els on 07/13/06 07:16

dorayme wrote:

> In article <rzn8xkr5omc0.73u7xrrrccmg.dlg@40tude.net>,
> Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>
>> Ah okay, I see your 10px padding need :-)
>> In Opera it's worse - any image that is on the same row as the taller
>> one, gets a large gap below the text to make the box the same height.
>> I think the best is just to avoid wrapping, or make sure that you know
>> how many lines it will wrap to, and just set an appropriate height for
>> that.
>>
> As it happens, I did try some no nbsp; in the captions just to
> follow a thought I had...but they did not have the desired
> effect... (like it did not stop the wrapping!). I tried this in
> my FF "edit css" thing...

white-space:nowrap; on span.caption a works just fine in my FF "edit
css" thing. What did you try?
Doesn't have a desired effect though, as then the text will spill out
of the box, and become entirely unvisible (black on black).

>>> btw... If I had to say which, in some intelligence test, I would
>>> say Ernie was odd man out of the little collection. But these
>>> judgements are what get me into the just below average
>>> intelligence range... :-)
>>
>> No, I'd say you're right. He's the only one that isn't alive or at
>> least 3-dimensional. Consider your intelligence compatible with mine
>> ;-)
>
> No I absolutely insist on a lower intelligence! In the tests
> where you are supposed to continue a series (say of numbers)
> according to a pattern, I would continue in whatever way I
> fancied and always cited a pattern to suit. It was never the
> boring old fart patterns the makers of the tests had in mind.

If that's a sign of lack of intelligence, I'm a lot less intelligent
than I thought I was ;-)
These tests often assume that there's only one pattern possible, so
they simply don't check for alternative possibilities.

Take this very (too) simple one: 1 2 3 5 .. ..
They think it's obvious that the next one is 8, but I figure it could
be 6.
Their pattern: 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55
My pattern: 1 2 3 5 6 7 9 10 11 13

Who's to say I'm wrong? ;-)

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