oh, tantek

[adularia]

Grf. I'm experiencing basically a box-model problem... only with seam allowances.

If fabric secretly has a voice-family property, that can be cleverly abused depending on the choice of rendering platform sewing machine or serger, I will be duly amused.

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[gipsieee]

English? It seems like I should understand that, but I don't.. help? *giggle*

[adularia]

The box-model problem is an issue where IE 5.5 and 6 had a different understanding of element width than contemporaneous Mozilla browsers. If a div was defined with width=200, margin=10, and padding=20, Mozilla would interpret it by adding the extra widths on to the base width, for a total element that's 260 pixels wide. IE would shrink the inner div so that the whole thing would fit in 200px wide. This caused no end of layout problems... Tantek Çelik came up with one of the better hacks for it, using another browser difference (on a really obscure metadata property, voice-family) to selectively override a box definition for IE browsers.

It was late and I was having issues figuring whether a serged edge should be counted as inside the seam allowance or not, and if not, how much additional allowance to put on. :D

[gipsieee]

Oh. Thanks..
What was the answer? (I sew, but haven't ever used a serger..)

[adularia]

I still don't know. Really need to meet up with my friend the wizard seamstress. I'll report back. :)

[progrium]

I still don't get why his name is so well known for this. You'd think it was just a hack that he discovered and everybody used, but without his name all over it.

I don't know. I know the guy and I still can't figure it out.

[adularia]

My theory is that it's just fun to say.