CSS opacity

"Thierry" <thierry (AT) invalid (DOT) com> wrote

"Al Sparber - PVII" <pviiteam (AT) projectSPAseven (DOT) com> wrote in message
It's impressive, but kills clear type in IE7, which is a deal breaker for
me.


Interesting you mention this as I had never thought of using Clear Type. I
just turned it on now and it does seem to look a little bit better.
I guess it is easier to tell the difference when you're used to it. Is it
mostly better for small text? It looks like small text looks a bit smaller
than it used to, but at the same time it seems more legible. Interesting..

I always turned it off in XP but have come to really like it in Vista. The
improvements for small text are dramatic, less so for large text - though I
do find myself setting heading text to font-weight: normal a lot. There is a
tuneup utility that works kind of like an eye test. In Windows Help, search
for Clear Type.

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"Al Sparber - PVII" <pviiteam (AT) projectSPAseven (DOT) com> wrote

"Thierry" <thierry (AT) invalid (DOT) com> wrote in message
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"Al Sparber - PVII" <pviiteam (AT) projectSPAseven (DOT) com> wrote in message
It's impressive, but kills clear type in IE7, which is a deal breaker
for me.


Interesting you mention this as I had never thought of using Clear Type.
I just turned it on now and it does seem to look a little bit better.
I guess it is easier to tell the difference when you're used to it. Is it
mostly better for small text? It looks like small text looks a bit
smaller than it used to, but at the same time it seems more legible.
Interesting..

I always turned it off in XP but have come to really like it in Vista. The
improvements for small text are dramatic, less so for large text - though
I do find myself setting heading text to font-weight: normal a lot. There
is a tuneup utility that works kind of like an eye test. In Windows Help,
search for Clear Type.

I started to explore this as it is new to me. I found a link for XP [1], but
not such tool for Vista (I used F1, but didn't run into anything similar).
It is a huge plus for small text. The only weirdness I found so far is in DW
code view, I have my settings to display "courrier new" small and the last
letter of words are not complete, a small part on the right hand side is
"shaved". i.e. the "b" and "p" are barely closed.
In any case, I like it, it's night and day in Outlook.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

Thanks,
Thierry

"Thierry" <thierry (AT) invalid (DOT) com> wrote

I started to explore this as it is new to me. I found a link for XP [1],
but not such tool for Vista (I used F1, but didn't run into anything
similar).
It is a huge plus for small text. The only weirdness I found so far is in
DW code view, I have my settings to display "courrier new" small and the
last letter of words are not complete, a small part on the right hand side
is "shaved". i.e. the "b" and "p" are barely closed.
In any case, I like it, it's night and day in Outlook.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

This is a different page and works for Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearType/tuner/tune.aspx


I found it this way:
Start > Help and Support

Search for: Clear Type

Click on first result "Clear Type: frequently asked questions", then "Can I
tune Clear Type?"

thanks and sorry for the long delay. I was in such a hurry I had to just create
all my elements in PS and build the site in iweb (apple consumer program) until
I can recode it in dreamweaver.

So, I had to change the css in the iweb site to include opacity and filter for
IE7 etc for the elements that had opacity. Now what I don't understand is what
apples program/code is doing that makes it so I can have various elements on
the page be semi opaque (70%) without effecting other elements. As stated, when
I reproduce the same looking code in dreamweaver its making everything on my
page semi opaque.

In the iweb site its just using a normal css sheet with elements that are
similar to this:

.backDrop {
width: 700px;
height: 900px;
background: rgb(245, 176, 193);
opacity: 0.77;
filter: alpha(opacity = 77);
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
left: 480px;
}

then referencing them in the html without and witchcraft trickery so what is
apple doing in iweb sites to make this work that doesn't seem to appearing in
the obvious code?

They have a .js sheet thats a mile long that is referenced at the top of the
page... could that include their solution? Or is it not related in any sort?

I don't want to post the site link here but if anyone wants to pm me or email
me at blue_vision (AT) mac (DOT) com to try and see what iweb's doing etc then please
do... I could use the help since this template site loads sooooooo slow and has
random issues on different browsers (not opacity issues).

Thanks!

while on this topic. Anyone know about what this forum is?


http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:mydSCOJdvzUJ:dreamweaverforum.info/dreamwea
ver-general/153699-css-opacity.html+opacity+in+dreamweaver&cd=4&hl=en&ct= clnk&gl
=us&client=safari

Thats the cache so that you can view the comments but why are our comments
made here mirrored there when I'm not even a member there (until now) ?

..oO(blue_vision)

while on this topic. Anyone know about what this forum is?


http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:mydSCOJdvzUJ:dreamweaverforum.info/dreamwea
ver-general/153699-css-opacity.html+opacity+in+dreamweaver&cd=4&hl=en&ct= clnk&gl
=us&client=safari

Thats the cache so that you can view the comments but why are our comments
made here mirrored there when I'm not even a member there (until now) ?

SEO criminals and spammers? Most if not all of the linked sites also
belong to them, according to the whois info (I just checked a few).

But it's not the only site that grabs content from newsgroups and sells
it as their own.

Micha

so, being the idiot that I am I probably should go and change all my online passwords now that I gave them my usual info?

blue_vision posted in macromedia.dreamweaver

so, being the idiot that I am I probably should go and change all
my online passwords now that I gave them my usual info?

Only if you posted passwords in a message here or some other public
place. If you didn't do that, then your information is safe.

You are using the Web forum to access a news server,
forums.macromedia.com , that Macromedia set up years before adding the
Web access. Other news servers around the world get the newsfeed from
this server. The most useful of these is groups.google.com (formerly
dejanews.com) which has been archiving newsgroup messages for a
loooooong time. It also has a far superior search feature than that Web
forum software.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=group:macromedia.dreamweaver
or
http://dejanews.com/advanced_search?q=group:macromedia.dreamweaver

The dejanews archives have served me extremely well over the years.

forums.macromedia.com does not get feeds from other servers, so
messages posted to googlegroups.com or other sites will not make it
here.

The other Adobe forums are set up very similarly, though with a
different Web interface to the news server.

There are lots of sites that, as Micha said, grab content from
newsgroups and sell it as their own - even from Usenet newsgroups.

I would suggest that you switch to using a newsreader to get the full
benefits of the news server, but Adobe is setting up a whole different
forum with a different look - probably this weekend. The news servers
are very likely going to the recycle bin. No more "Newsgroup User"
messages. And no more google archiving or unscrupulous leeching.


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Keep-On-Learnin'

Mark A. Boyd posted in macromedia.dreamweaver

so, being the idiot that I am I probably should go and change all
my online passwords now that I gave them my usual info?

Only if you posted passwords in a message here or some other public
place. If you didn't do that, then your information is safe.

Wait a minute. If you mean that you registered at the site you linked
to in this thread, using information you use in other places, then yea,
you might want to change them. Only the Shadow knows what lurks in the
minds of the people behind sites like that one.


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Keep-On-Learnin'

On 01 Apr 2009 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Mark A. Boyd wrote:

The news servers are very likely going to the recycle bin. No more
"Newsgroup User" messages. And no more google archiving or
unscrupulous leeching.

While it's true that Google Groups will no longer have the archive of the
(former) newsgroups, there's nothing stopping other sites from scraping
the contents of the new webforums.

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