- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 09:41:49 -0700
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: "Carl Morris" <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
My apologies to anyone who accessed http://home.earthlink.net/~davidp/dtest.html within the first hour of my message asking people to do so. I noted some errors, then managed to add more when I hurriedly fixed the first batch. I revised the page again this morning, adding some examples with pixel measurements and larger font, plus a screen capture from the MS site. (I had initially used the inline style drop shadow example at http://199.120.83.179/~moreese/msiebugs/style_sheet_bugs/index.html as a starting point for my own examples but then realized that the markup there is wrong. I can't detail the error as I can't access that page this morning. It was the weird results I got when I used that code that prompted my first message.) The issue with the left and right margins is that the second example should look exactly the same as the first, i.e. moving the shadow to the right should have the same effect as moving the red type to the left. If you look closely at the example you'll see that is not the case. What I found was that to get an accurate horizontal offset for a right side drop shadow on centered text you need to offset the drop shadow to the right (with a left margin) and the text to the left (with a right margin). So, the serious issue is the vertical margin. It is seemingly incorrect with both point and pixel measurements. As I noted, Microsoft's CSS Gallery examples of negative margins (such as http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/css/gallery/slide7.htm ) look awful on my system. (How awful? See for yourself. I also put a screen capture of that page at http://home.earthlink.net/~davidp/dtest.html.) I have a hard time believing this is the intended effect. David Perrell
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