Maybe this link will help?
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/styling_even_more_form_controls/
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Hi al. :)
al morris wrote:
If the issue is the menu appearing behind flash, you can add param
mode='transparent' on the flash movie and it will sit behind the menu.
And the point I have been trying to make is that a wmode of opaque works
way better than transparent.
Safari has issues, that
Al Sparber wrote:
It could be as mnuch an Adobe issue as an Apple one. In any event, you
Ahh, good point. :)
can see here that Adobe's own dropdown menu, which falls over a Flash
movie, exhibits the same problem in Safari.
http://www.adobe.com
Now, it is possible that Adobe does not check
Brion Mills wrote:
Until someone has the time to figure it out, I would suggest not designing
OSX 10.4.8, using Safari 2.0.4(419.3):
This page (warning: code is not pretty... just quick and dirty for testing):
http://www.ambiguism.com/sandbox/scripts/wmode/
My tests show that transparent
Micky Hulse wrote:
Draw your own conclusions I guess... Looks to me that opaque works
better in the versions of Safari I tested.
Sorry, meant to say:
Looks to me that /transparent/ works better in the versions of Safari I
tested.
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Hi folks, great conversation we got going here. :)
I just checked a site I did that uses suckerfish and swfObject...
iBook g4 using OS 10.4 and Safari 2.0.4(419.3)
The flyouts actually behave very well when the Flash is animating (no
flickering or anything - perfect)... but when the Flash
Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
2. Avoid using flyouts completely.
That gets my vote. They're irritating and a usability nightmare. If
clients ask for them it's our job to educate them out of such stupidity.
(Just my 0.02GBP.)
Hehe, mine too. At least, that is my sentiment starting last Monday when
Al Sparber wrote:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
Thanks Al! Looks like some solid code, thanks for sharing! :)
Cheers,
Micky
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Andy Woznica wrote:
Other suggestions?
Just one horrible one: Build your navigation into the offending Flash piece!
It did cross my mind. Ok, I'm off to beat myself with birch twigs..
LOL! Actually, good tip... and I have seen it done well (not drop-downs
though):
http://guilago.se/
Barney Carroll wrote:
I'd like to know what people think about that first of all - does
anybody give headings to their navigation?
Sometimes I like to use a DL for my primary/secondary navigation...
using the DT I can give the nav a title, and then position it off-screen
using absolute
Pierre-Henri Lavigne wrote:
Good morning / afternoon,
One of the website we are developing contains a drop down sections menu
over a flash. I think we are catching the same problem as Adobe
(http://www.adobe.com)
Try using SWFobject with opaque wmode.
You might find my post on Sitepoint
Hi,
OP, You might find this article very enlightening:
*Newly Supported CSS Selectors in IE7*
http://snipurl.com/16ezv
Now that IE7 has been released and has begun to penetrate into the
userbase, it won't be too long before we can start using more advanced
CSS in our pages. Two of the most
A good thread:
*XHTML1.0 vs XHTML 1.1*
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=320391
Might help. :)
Also good:
*XHTML vs HTML FAQ*
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=393445
Cheers,
Micky
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I cobbled this together a year or so back... allows for two, or many
more, suckerfish menus on one page...
http://www.ambiguism.com/sandbox/scripts/spawn-of-suckerfish.php
I have yet to re-visit and clean-up the JS and/or CSS... but the main
thing that should help you is the JS.
Maybe it
Paul Noone wrote:
Wow! Never seen this list so busy. You dthink it was Xmas or something. :)
Hehe, yeah, it is nice to see some action. :)
Not too much. Simply that the learning curve is often quite steep and
that proprietary templating engines don't help this.
Ah, I see. Thanks for
Hi all, I hope your December is going well. :)
Long story short, I am looking for a CMS that meets as many of the below
items as possible (not really in any particular order):
0. CSS/XHTML, RSS/XML, with good to excellent template management
system. As table free as possible. Light-weight.
Caterina Carola wrote:
Have a look at Drupal (drupal.org), I think it (plus added modules) can
do all on your list.
May take a little getting into some aspects, but wow!
Oooh, good call. :)
IIRC, I have heard good things about Drupal -- never used it though...
but it looks like it would be
Richard Conyard wrote:
Depending on whether you are able to move out of open source your
requirements are met out of standard modules by Colony.
http://www.thinkcolony.com
Ah, yes, I am pretty sure I include a non-open source option into the
budget.
Thanks for the suggestion, reading
Richard Conyard wrote:
Rereading your requirements the functional element may also be able to
be handled by plone as well.
Ah, right... IIRC, I have also heard good things about Plone.
Researching that as an option now. Thanks again for the advice, I really
appreciate the help. :)
Colony
Paul Noone wrote:
You haven't stated whether you were looking for a paid or open source
solution but I offer the same advice to you that I offer anyone
looking for the 'right' CMS. ...snip...
Hi Paul! Thanks for the great info!
I think I am leaning towards an Open Source solution.
I was not
Hi Matthew, many thanks for you help and guidance. :)
Matthew Smith wrote:
I've played with Drupal a couple of times, but have never delved too
deep. Most things look OK, but the URI scheme is ghastly, although I
guess that it should be possible to change that without too much effort.
Ah,
Paul Noone wrote:
It's www.opensourcecms.com http://www.opensourcecms.com , not .org.
Ah, thanks for the correction. :)
Go easy on the comparison check at cmsmatrix.org. If at first you get no
results, whittle down your criteria (starting with Root and Sheel Login).
Sounds good. So far I
Katrina wrote:
I am looking to do honours next year in Comp. Inf. Science and I was
wondering if anyone had any ideas about any honours topics involving web
standards?
You know, the first thing I thought of was this:
http://openandclosed.org/
http://openandclosed.org/activities/
Maybe that
Matthew Pennell wrote:
Code? Link? Telepathic mind-meld? Throw us a frickin bone, here
Lol!
Sounds like a clearing problem maybe?
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Nathan Smith wrote:
Mambo / Joomla are junk, and to be avoided, in my opinion. They both
lock you into a particular template, and use tables for layout.
That is what I thought.
Joomla was an installation headache for my and my server... Thanks, but
no thanks - pass.
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Interesting.
I work for a/the local newspaper company and it would be hell to try and
make everything accessible... so many different departments doing
different things to the site - not to mention the old-school programmers
that could care less about accessibility. Also, all of the
Hi Russ and Ted, many many many thanks for all the great tips, info and
advice!
russ - maxdesign wrote:
- Does the site offer users a clear and easy-to-find method of contacting
you (like an email address or more importantly a phone number) should all
else fail?
- Are alt attributes used for
Tim wrote:
A review of the Target website with screenshots, it still has 556 HTML
errors one year later and blank space everywhere.
Wal-Mart and many other American sites need a kick in the behind as well.
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/USAweb.html#targetstore
Ah, very
Nathan Smith wrote:
http://textpattern.com/
Yeah, TXP rocks!
I kinda get tired of hearing WP is so great.
:)
Stoked to hear that Friends of Ed are writing a book for it.
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This page might help:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail
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Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
Here you are:
http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/32bit/1.0 :-)
LOL! That rocks! Haha. Thanks for the link.
I am sooo tempted to install it too! Hmmm, Maybe after a few beers. :D
Haha,
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Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Know of any other sites that have completely dropped CSS support for
IE5.2/Mac and/or IE5.0/PC?
Re IE5/Mac: see the thread from August 4, 'Re: [WSG] Support for
IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)'.
Ah, hehe, sorry if I brought-up a convo that has been already started.
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was criticising; that previous
Oh, not at all... I did not mean to make it sound like you were. :D
thread doesn't really answer your question anyway, but it does give you
some options (and rationale) on how to go about it. Just
I recently discovered this article/thread:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=393445
A good read... and touches on your question a bit:
What about XHTML 2.0?
What about it? It shows no signs of becoming even a candidate
recommendation any time soon. We don't know what it will
Have you tried:
wmode=opaque
Not a 100% fix... but is usable and works better (imho) than
transparent (depending on circumstance.)
You might gander at:
Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility:
http://snipurl.com/m08r
This article has shown you reasons you may want to use opaque mode in
your
TuteC wrote:
I have a rather simple question: does it have any semantical meaning
the name of a div? For example, if I have a div
class=Distributorsh3Distributors/h3/div, will the search
engine understand the name of the div or di I need that h3 to do that?
I asked a similar question on
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Umm... OSX/Classic?
Ah, you want details.
Well, the web folks do use OSX/Classic... we are the select few that get
that luxury.
As for the rest of the newsroom folks, they are on older 7100's/Beige
G3's and such... Upgrading to OSX just to run classic mode means a
Corrie Potter wrote:
I have a CSS based dynamic menu that drops down and there is a flash
movie that is right under the menu. The flash movie is set to
transparent and the menu pops down over the flash menu in all browsers
correctly except in Safari.
wmode=opaque
Not a 100% fix... but is
Ted Drake wrote:
This is an ugly fix, but can lead you toward to solution.
Try placing the entire list in one line, removing the whitespace between the
list items.
An alternative to all on one line fix is this (view source, check-out
how he did his list menus):
Ruthsarian Layouts Tank!
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