iCapture: Free Screencaps in Safari
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The question there, though, is why the heck isn’t Safari 1.1 treating the :CSS: “float” properly? I mean, it doesn’t appear to be floating at all there.
How are you doing that first-letter cap thing? I have been trying to do it using first-letter, first-element (or something like that).
If I can figure out how you did it, I can remove the formatting from my blog entries!
The specifics are going to vary a bit from site to site, but here’s what I used:
#main h4+p:first-letter {
margin: -5px 0 0 0;
padding: 0;
float: left;
font-size: 2.45em;
}
The key there is the “h4+p:first-letter”, of course. In my code, the opening paragraph of an entry is alway preceded by the <h4> tag, so “h4+p” tells :CSS: to apply the style to any <p> tag that is immediately preceded by a <h4> tag. It’s a CSS adjacent selector.
The effect appears in Mozilla/Gecko-based browsers as well as Safari (though as you see in the screenshot it doesn’t look the same). It might appear in Opera, too, though I don’t know. It definitely doesn’t appear in IE/win, but that isn’t really a problem since it degrades gracefully.
Chris, you are the “taginator”!
Well, there are a few float issues with build 60 of Safari. I’m not sure if this is a reflection of any of it, though (honestly didn’t look too closely.)
Whats the point of a browser snapshot when you can just do the “command+shift+3” thingy? What are the benifits?
Seriously, I’m curious of its use…
Well, I don’t know what the “command+shift+3 thingy” is (screenshot in OSX, I assume), but a service like iCapture can certainly be useful for people who don’t use Macs. Like, say, me. :D Something like that will let me know how a page looks on a Mac where I otherwise wouldn’t know.
aaaah, how did you get the screen shot then? And yea, command+shift+3 is a nifty osx screen shot fuction that directly exports to pdf on the desktop.. its rather nice. If im not mistaken i think it works on everything, even hardware driven video playbakc (something windows cant do natively, but can do if you turn hardware acceleration off before you attempt it.)
Greggo--follow the link. He’s not taking the screen shot himself. 
Er… that screenshot is the whole purpose of iCapture. You submit a website URL and that site goes into the queue. His iMac then visits each site in the queue, makes a screenshot of it (in PNG format) and makes it available for a limited time for you to view/download.
So, that way I can see what a site looks like in Safari 1.1 without having to have a Mac myself.
oooooooooooo i thought iwas was for manual use.. ima gonna go try that.
Chris… any idea how to make nicetitles work with href mapped images? im using the latest nice titles.. and it dont work, plus i cant seem to turn off IE’s regular hover titles.. so im getting both with IE… god i hate it
Oh great, now you have physical evidence on your site that your drop caps don’t look the same across the board. I told you it wasn’t bad, though.
By Derek Jones on December 2, 2003 at 12:15pm link