Re: [WSG] Input File Format

2004-10-08 Thread Roger Johansson
On 7 okt 2004, at 20.42, Genau Junior wrote: I´m having some dificulty to set the size of [input=file] form element. I can set the width through CSS on Mozzila, but IE cant set the size that i formated on CSS file. Anyone can help me how i set a size on INPUT FILE on both browsers? Styling form

[WSG] 2 columns layout

2004-10-08 Thread Javier
Hi I'm a little bit new to css and I'm trying to make my personal blog with a tableless layout. I'm made a layout with a centered fixed width div container and two float div's, one for contents and one one for menu with a different background color. Everything it's ok except when contents

Re: [WSG] 2 columns layout

2004-10-08 Thread russ - maxdesign
Can we have a URL? This will help others to help you! Just a quick review of best practice when asking for help on any list (not just WSG): 1. If possible, set up a sample page that shows just the problem in action. 2. Validate your HTML code 3. Validate your CSS code 4. Test the page on a

RE: [WSG] 2 columns layout

2004-10-08 Thread Peter Goddard
Title: RE: [WSG] 2 columns layout Javier One technique I have found very useful is called 'Faux Columns' Try the following link for a good overview. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ Peter Goddard Web Developer/IT PSI Global Ltd -Original Message- From: Javier

Re[2]: [WSG] 2 columns layout

2004-10-08 Thread Javier
On 10/8/2004 at 7:45 PM russ - maxdesign wrote: Can we have a URL? This will help others to help you! Hi Thanks for your reply. I'll try to make a sample page on line... Regards jl ** The discussion list for

[WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
Hi, I'm wondering what tools Mac developers out there use? I'm basically and windows and linux person, but will get a small iBook for travelling and testing on next week. I'll be OS in Nov/Dec and need to still do some work, so I need to be able to work pretty comfortably on the Mac. On

[WSG] Re: Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Alan Milnes
Ian Hickson is _not_ saying XHTML is harmful, he is saying that serving up XHTML with the wrong MIME type is bad. I've read the article and what I don't understand is that if it is so bad why is it acceptable to the Validator? I write my pages in XHTML with a XHTML 1.1 doctype and send the

[WSG] dl list breaking in ie 5.5 win

2004-10-08 Thread Isabel Santos
Hi, Could you please help me on this one? I've been trying to workaround a semantic problem in a site. Since the is intended to be used as a template, I intend to use only text and background on the header. To avoid low contrast situations, I decided to use an absolute positioned div

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Hugh Todd
Geoff, The text editors I know of for the Mac are (in rough order): 1) BBEdit. King pin. Expensive but comprehensive, with Web Preview. http://www.barebones.com 2) skEdit. Popular, shareware http://www.skti.org/skEdit.php 3) SubEthaEdit. Includes collaborative feature.

Re: [WSG] hidden list background issues, etc.

2004-10-08 Thread Tom Livingston
All, To each his own. Check your site stats or your intended audience. Don't break your neck/budget over a non-issue. And my point was that those browsers' designs was bad/flawed, not the design of the sites we are building. And also it was IMHO. Tom

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Tom Livingston
I have not tried this, but it received good remarks in a recent Macworld article... http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/ Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist mlinc.com Get FireFox http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliatesid=0t=1 On Oct 8, 2004, at

[WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Richard Lake
I've added a top of page link as follows: div class=topla href=#headerTop of page/a/div and related CSS, as follows: .topl { float: right; font-size: .75em;} a.topl { color: #660; text-decoration: none;} Everything validates (apart from an IE expression that I've removed but

Re: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Friday, Oct 8, 2004, at 23:37 Australia/Sydney, Richard Lake wrote: I've added a top of page link as follows: div class=topla href=#headerTop of page/a/div and related CSS, as follows: .topl { float: right; font-size: .75em;} a.topl { color: #660; text-decoration: none;}

AW: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Dietmar Albers
Wrong link? ;-)) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Richard Lake Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 15:38 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect I've added a top of page link as follows: div

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Tom Livingston
Upon a little test run, the live preview of the code (literally 'as you type') is neat. This looks like it might be a pain for a small screen though. I have a 17 Studio Display, and i wasn't fond of the amount of room I had to code in. Still nice though.

Re: [WSG] hidden list background issues, etc.

2004-10-08 Thread Lorenzo Gabba
Great! Even more issues... I don't have a Mac for testing - so I'm blind from that pov. Help on points 1-5 anyone?... please?! - Lorenzo On Thursday 07 October 2004 16:28, Nick Gleitzman wrote: Lorenzo wrote: URL: http://196.36.166.35/tower CSS: http://196.36.166.35/tower/s/tower.css

RE: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Bert
G'day div class=topla href=#headerTop of page/a/div and related CSS, as follows: a.topl { color: #660; text-decoration: none;} The reason this doesn't do anything is that a.topl means an anchor with the class topl, which is not what you have above (you applied the class to the div,

AW: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Dietmar Albers
thanks for responding. I've just tried that locally and it didn't make any difference? Richard Well, but it is a better way to see the whole html and css. May be there is something else, which overrides your classes or id's. ;-) R. D. ** The

RE: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Bert
G'day it's the appearance of the link that's the problem. And the cause is inheritance and specificity, or something like that. The formatting seems to come from the following rules: #content a { color: #000; text-decoration: underline;} #content a:hover { color: #cc9;

RE: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Kear
You do remember that any link that refers to an anchor on the same page is by definition a visited link don't you. You can't just set text-decoration:none; on the link, you have to make sure it's set on the visited link too. Could that be the cause? Do you have some styling related to visited

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Andy Budd
Not forgetting Style Master http://www.westciv.com/style_master/ Hugh Todd wrote: Geoff, The text editors I know of for the Mac are (in rough order): 1) BBEdit. King pin. Expensive but comprehensive, with Web Preview. http://www.barebones.com 2) skEdit. Popular, shareware

Re: [WSG] 2 columns layout

2004-10-08 Thread Richard Spence
Hello, I know that its already be posted but the tutorial at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ is very helpful when it comes to two column layouts. You can also make the entire site fixed width and height. I;m not to sure how you've designed your site but you could add a container

RE: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
Paul Connolley wrote: Geoff Deering wrote: I am talking about CSS applied to HTML and the rendering of the CSS as applied to the parsing of the document. But still, strictly speaking, an XML based document is bound to be more semantically correct because it is well formed.

RE: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
What Dean says so well here are also the reasons I prefer XML defined markup, and I don't think it negates the arguments that others have been expressing here for HTML. I think each on of them have valid points. But it seems to me that there are more reasons to use an XML based vocabulary than

RE: [WSG] Re: Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
From:Of Alan Milnes Ian Hickson is _not_ saying XHTML is harmful, he is saying that serving up XHTML with the wrong MIME type is bad. I've read the article and what I don't understand is that if it is so bad why is it acceptable to the Validator? I write my pages in XHTML with a XHTML

RE: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
From: Kristof Rutten Hi Geoff, I've 'switchted' sides in March of this year and haven't returned to my old Win-platofrm ;) Yes, I suspect it could happen to me too, especially when you have the best of both worlds; Mac front end, and *nix backend, although I really do like GNOME and KDE.

RE: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
I have a 19 and 21 for development, so I'll just KVM the iBook (can't afford a Powerbook) Thanks Upon a little test run, the live preview of the code (literally 'as you type') is neat. This looks like it might be a pain for a small screen though. I have a 17 Studio Display, and i wasn't fond

RE: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Geoff Deering
From: Andy Budd Not forgetting Style Master http://www.westciv.com/style_master/ Andy Budd Yeah, I was waiting for that one to come up. Thanks Geoff ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Help. 2 extra words breaks the page

2004-10-08 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Paul, your CSS doesn't validate. This is failing: div.sidebar {border-left: 1px solid #ccc; width: 200px; float: right; padding-left: 5px; padding-vertical-align:text-top;} Error: Property padding-vertical-align doesn't exist : text-top Remember to validate! The problem with IE5 lies with your

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread John Allsopp
From: Andy Budd Not forgetting Style Master http://www.westciv.com/style_master/ Andy Budd Yeah, I was waiting for that one to come up. Thanks Andy and Geoff Review comparing Mac CSS Editors at the bible MacWorld here http://www.macworld.com/2004/07/reviews/cascadingstylesheeteditors/?

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Amit Karmakar
Just ro reiterate. Style Master rocks! Nothing come close to it. I switched a few months back and only ever use my windows box sparingly. There is no coming back from a PowerBook! While I use BBEdit a lot I do like Xpad a whole lot too for quick edits etc On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:52:28 +1000, John

Re: [WSG] Is XHTML harmful?

2004-10-08 Thread Paul Connolley
Geoff Deering wrote: I am talking about CSS applied to HTML and the rendering of the CSS as applied to the parsing of the document. But still, strictly speaking, an XML based document is bound to be more semantically correct because it is well formed. This means that the CSS can be applied

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Clayton Lengel-Zigich
I really like SubEthaEdit! http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 11:20:42 +1000, Amit Karmakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just ro reiterate. Style Master rocks! Nothing come close to it. I switched a few months back and only ever use my windows box sparingly. There is no