Posted by GTalbot on 01/10/08 22:51

On 10 jan, 09:52, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@centralva.net> wrote:
> nicolacantalupo wrote:
> > solution?
> > thanks for the tip
> > by
> >>> .tab_corsi td:first-child{background:#444;color:#F06}
>
> Make a specific class
>
> >>> .tab_corsi td+td:hover{background:#444;color:white}
>
> Use JavaScript to attach a onmouseover event or HTC with IE's
> proprietary behavior() CSS property
>
> >>> .tab_corsi tr:first-child{background:#444;color:#F06}
>
> Make a specific class
>
> Yes, IE's meager CSS support is a pain...

"
Finally, we added new features from CSS2.1:
* Selectors: first-child, adjacent, attribute,
"

Details on our CSS changes for IE7
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712830.aspx

To Nico,

IE6 is now considered an old and buggy browser. Most people now switch
to Firefox 2 (Firefox 3 will be released in February 2008, in Italian
too) or to Opera 9.50 or to Safari 3.

.tab_corsi{font-size:12px;border:0px}

I advise you to avoid setting font-size to px unit and to small font
size. I have my minimum font size set to 13px and 12px may be small
for over 40 years old people.

"
1. Legibility Problems
Bad fonts won the vote by a landslide, getting almost twice as many
votes as the #2 mistake. About two-thirds of the voters complained
about small font sizes or frozen font sizes;
"
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html

Font size should be ideally in relative unit like %, not in pixels.
"
Do not specify the font-size in pt, or other absolute length units
(like px) for screen stylesheets. They render inconsistently across
platforms and can't be resized by the User Agent (e.g browser). Keep
the usage of such units for styling on media with fixed and known
physical properties (e.g print).
Use relative length units such as percent
"
W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmasters:
Care With Font Size
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

Also
http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html by Beauregard T. Shagnasty
is worth reading and is often mentionned in this newsgroup.

Regards, Gérard
--
Internet Explorer 7 bugs
http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE7Bugs/

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