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

2004-10-11 Thread Kristof Rutten
Kevin, I used to do all my FTP task in a shell session. Transmit surely beats that when it comes to synchronising ;) I'm quite a command line junky like Paul. It gives you enormous power if you know to push the right buttons. So, in conclusion. One of the best tools available on mac these

[WSG] Problem with Footer placemenent and 1PX margin in IE.

2004-10-11 Thread Kristof Rutten
Hi, I've been working on a redesign of a site for sportsclubs here in Belgium. Up till now I've always used the old fashioned table layout but I wanted to make a change. Now, this is the template : http://www.nsworx.be/_template.php and this is the CSS behind it :

Re: [WSG] Problem with Footer placemenent and 1PX margin in IE.

2004-10-11 Thread Natalie Buxton
in: #footer { position: relative; float: left; width: 752px; } #footer p { text-align: center; color: #FFF; text-size: 85%; padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px; background: url(../_images/bg_h5.png);

[WSG] FYI: article on making your ASP.NET pages XHTML valid

2004-10-11 Thread Barry Beattie
there's probably only 10 ASP.NET developers on list that this might apply to and probably 9 that have already read this - but just in case you're the one that missed out this (updated) article might be of some help A C# class to make your ASP.NET pages XHTML valid

[WSG] height bug in Safari... any ideas?

2004-10-11 Thread Tania Morris
Hi All, I've been working on a site which needs a background graphic centred in the viewport but with two different colours on the right left... I managed to get most of it working by setting a background image colour for the body which efectively give one colour one side and another the

SOLVED: [WSG] height bug in Safari... any ideas?

2004-10-11 Thread Tania Morris
Sorry for wasting folks time. After looking at it for ages, I attacked it from a completely differnt angle and it's working ok now (I get some extra height on IE mac but that is bearable). Tania - Original Message - From: Tania Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [WSG] height bug in Safari... any ideas?

2004-10-11 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 10/11/04 12:43 AM Tania Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: The designer wanted the background image to show on larger screens if possible, and while it involved some tweaking to get the various browsers to accept the 100% height, and it's working on win 6 Moz, IE Mac 5.2 etc, but I'm

[WSG] Online HTML text editor

2004-10-11 Thread Jacobus van Niekerk
Hi all, Just though I should share this nice open source HTML text editor that produces valid XHTML. http://www.fckeditor.net/ Enjoy! Kind Regards Jacobus van Niekerk Creative Consultant web: http://www.catics.com/ | http://www.freelancecontractors.com tel: +

Re: [WSG] Online HTML text editor

2004-10-11 Thread Joshua Street
It's nice, and valid, but in this case valid doesn't mean clean. This is what I just came up with when playing with it: --- Thspan style=font-family: times new roman;is i/spans span style=background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);sospan style=font-family: comic sans ms;m/spane/span strongsspan

Re: [WSG] FYI: article on making your ASP.NET pages XHTML valid

2004-10-11 Thread Webstandards
Interesting how this comes up around the same time .NET and the frustrations of validation appears in the Web Standards Project Buzz for October 2004 at http://webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2004_10.html Barry Beattie wrote: there's probably only 10 ASP.NET developers on list that this might

RE: [WSG] FYI: article on making your ASP.NET pages XHTML valid

2004-10-11 Thread Gianfranco Todini
I'm that developer, as I didn't know about it, very interesting!!! In fact with our cms we make sites html 4.01 compliant but with the transitional schema because of dot.net viewstate and things like that...but with it we can reconsider an XHML approach for new clients!! Cheers Barry!

Re: [WSG] about.com's Web standards article

2004-10-11 Thread Ryan Christie
Nothing wrong with using WYSIWYGs - so long as they are standards-compliant. I tell you what - if you can get our WYSIWYG to create non-standards compliant markup, we'll get you a Firefox t-shirt. Use the link below, this version will run in Firefox PR1: http://xstandard.com/misc/beta/x-pro.exe

Re: [WSG] Online HTML text editor

2004-10-11 Thread XStandard
Hi Jacobus, The editor in question uses the MSHTML control built into IE. It's an HTML 4 editor based on a 5 year old version of FrontPage. This control is no longer updated and as far as I know, it is impossible to get it to create standards-compliant markup. Jacobus, I am one of the

RE: [WSG] FYI: article on making your ASP.NET pages XHTML valid

2004-10-11 Thread Ryan Nichols
If anyone is interested, I have done the same thing using another method. Instead of relying on text search and replace, you can just create your own HTMLTextWriter. I use XHTMLTextWriter when I want to write XHTML, and the standard when I don't. It's a wee bit more robust that way, perhaps even

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

2004-10-11 Thread Tom Livingston
Me three, er...i mean... I like DWMX04 as well. The pop-up code help is great. Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist mlinc.com Get FireFox http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliatesid=0t=1 On Oct 10, 2004, at 8:38 PM, John Oxton wrote: I would second

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

2004-10-11 Thread Genau Junior
I´ve been using DMX2004 too. Also Contribute to tempate pages and Check in / check out to colaborative developement. It´s pretty good! Genau Lopes Júnior WebDesigner ¬¬¬ http://www.meucarronovo.com.br - Original Message - From: Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [WSG] Online HTML text editor

2004-10-11 Thread Johan Steenkamp
XStandard rocks! It took me a few minutes to get it working in our CMS. Their approach to styles and CSS is very flexible and simple. I have not seen anything even close to their accessibility support. The free version is certainly usable is a customer solution. Licensing is very competitive

[WSG] 2 columns layout, new problem

2004-10-11 Thread Javier
After solved some problems in my local machine I uploaded my page model to my blog. Well, know it ignores layout settings !!! :( I've tried to access css file in the same way my page did and I can, so... I'm very blind about the problem. May be two fresh eyes could see what I'm losing to see.

Re: [WSG] 2 columns layout, new problem

2004-10-11 Thread Kristof Rutten
Hey Javier, Little mistake in the end in the style bit. style type=text/css media=all@import url(skins/javier/markup.css);/style -- Ditch the two -- marks and it'll work ;) .K On 11 Oct 2004, at 21:43, Javier wrote: After solved some problems in my local machine I uploaded my page model to

RE: [WSG] Online HTML text editor

2004-10-11 Thread Jason Foss
I was actually hunting around for something like this just yesterday! It's not perfect - but it's not the worst thing I've seen either. Thanks for the link. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacobus van Niekerk Sent: Monday, 11

Re[2]: [WSG] 2 columns layout, new problem

2004-10-11 Thread Javier
On 11/10/2004 at 22:11 Kristof Rutten wrote: Hey Javier, Little mistake in the end in the style bit. style type=text/css media=all@import url(skins/javier/markup.css);/style -- Ditch the two -- marks and it'll work ;) Thanks for your reply. When I saw my page didn't work, I've

[WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread john
After a bit of searching, I found a site that explains how to get fixed positioning in IE. This is great news for me, since I really would like such a thing on the design of one of my sites. Trouble is, I'm having a difficult time incorporating it into my existing CSS, and I'm wondering if

Re[2]: [WSG] 2 columns layout, new problem

2004-10-11 Thread Javier
On 11/10/2004 at 22:11 Kristof Rutten wrote: Hey Javier, Little mistake in the end in the style bit. style type=text/css media=all@import url(skins/javier/markup.css);/style -- Ditch the two -- marks and it'll work ;) Ignore my previous mail. I've decided to upload to my blog the

[WSG] CSS problem solving

2004-10-11 Thread russ - maxdesign
Hi all, I have been noticing more CSS questions coming onto the list. This is all cool. One of our main aims is to help developers move towards web standards/best practice. However, if you are just getting into CSS it might be worth your time reading a few CSS classic articles: Position is

Re: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
john wrote: The page with the CSS code for fixed positioning in IE is at http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed/header Interesting...although I wonder why Anne didn't actually construct proper html documents with a html, head and body...because it seems to work in that situation as well? Patrick H.

RE: [WSG] CSS problem solving

2004-10-11 Thread cssaddict
Hi, Actually CSS is the main reason I joined here. Since I am teaching myself how to do all of this, I try to join where the information is reported to be excellent. Here is another excellent link for css information. http://westciv.com/ [cssaddict] aka Debbie

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

2004-10-11 Thread Kevin Futter
On Windows I use Crimson Editor (sorry, can't provide a link right now, but I'm sure Google can), which shares many of the same features as SubEthaEdit, such as syntax colouring for multiple languages. In fact, in Crimson this is extensible through syntax modules, so in theory it could support ANY

Re:[WSG] CSS problem solving

2004-10-11 Thread Lyn Patterson
Thanks, Russ - yes, there are some great articles around and I have printed out so many and bookmarked so many it is hard to keep track. I find that as a beginner to CSS the main problem is actually recognising just what each problem is. Sometimes when something doesn't work as one expects it

RE: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Focas, Grant
I almost thought a problem that had been plaguing me for ages (apart from Howard) had been solved by this until I tried to view it in Mac/IE5.0. No scrollbar appears until a link is clicked (fixed positioning). In the time it takes to load the next page a scrollbar appears on the first page. In

Re: [WSG] CSS problem solving

2004-10-11 Thread Trovster
Here are all my resources I use so far... http://www.trovster.com/resources.html Still with a lot to sort out...!! On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:13:40 +0800, Lyn Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Russ - yes, there are some great articles around and I have printed out so many and

Closed - Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for... [ADMIN]

2004-10-11 Thread James Ellis
Hi all As per Russ' request this thread is now closed. There is a category for development and design tools on the WSG website which as WSG members you are all welcome to use and update. This thread is being closed because it has been discussed at least three times already in pretty lengthy

RE: [WSG] CSS problem solving

2004-10-11 Thread David McDonald
These links have now been added to the Resources section of the Web Standards Group website, under 'CSS Browser Bugs and Problems' at: http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/#cat23 There are many more CSS resources here as well: CSS General Resources:

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

2004-10-11 Thread Matt Andrews
i use jEdit, which is a Java-based (thus nicely cross-platform), free, open source, well featured programmers' text editor. it has lots of tasty features including syntax highlighting for pretty much anything you can think of, folding, etc etc a very active developer community, and lots of

[WSG] box model hack question

2004-10-11 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Hi I'm getting a little confused with when to use the following hack: width:760px; \width:770px; w\idth:760px Is it something that should be used on every container/wrapper? What happens if I don't use it? I've seen some CSS on sites that use it everwhere and then others that don't... Thanks

RE: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Focas, Grant
I've solved the Mac scrollbar problem. http://www.homebass.info/fixedPosTest/ Now the only issue left (besides that it uses CSS hacks) is that the back to top link only takes you to the top of the content div minus the height of the header. Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] box model hack question

2004-10-11 Thread russ - maxdesign
Is it something that should be used on every container/wrapper? What happens if I don't use it? I've seen some CSS on sites that use it everwhere and then others that don't... What happens if you don't use it? Depending on the way you lay out your pages, earlier versions of IE (and the

Re: [WSG] box model hack question

2004-10-11 Thread scott parsons
I would also add D. Longevity of design - if the site is only going to be live for 9 weeks you can be pretty sure that future browsers will not have time to choke on any hacks. E. Tight design timelines - If your boss comes to you on wednesday telling you that this new site needs to be

Re: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Oct 2004, at 1:27 PM, Focas, Grant wrote: I've solved the Mac scrollbar problem. http://www.homebass.info/fixedPosTest/ Now the only issue left (besides that it uses CSS hacks) is that the back to top link only takes you to the top of the content div minus the height of the header. Grant

RE: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Focas, Grant
Using a body id will not work because the top of the page is alsways in view. It is the top of the content div which is hidden. But the DOCTYPE was wrong and its now fixed, thanks. Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Sent:

Re: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 12 Oct 2004, at 2:55 PM, Focas, Grant wrote: Using a body id will not work because the top of the page is alsways in view. It is the top of the content div which is hidden. Well, in that case I've misunderstood what you're trying to do with the link. In all my Mac browsers (IE5.2, Safari 1.2,

RE: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-11 Thread Focas, Grant
For me it goes to the top but not quite. Safari 1.02 does make it go higher than Netscape 7.2 or IE5.2 but it still doesn't go right to the top. For instance, in Netscape 7.2 on Mac the back to top takes me back to 'Adapted from fixed positioning' not to 'Fixed header and footer'. This isn't too