Re: [WSG] Unwanted gaps between divs

2004-11-16 Thread Tony Crockford
At 05:14 on Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004, Nick Lo wrote: By the way it can be solved by adding padding to it's container: div#content { margin-left: 190px; margin-right: 200px; padding-top: 3pt; } However I'm still not clear why. I'd imagine this might explain:

Re: [WSG] Avoiding image cut-off through CSS?

2004-11-16 Thread Tony Crockford
At 03:52 on Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004, Chris Stratford wrote: Wow, that is something I didn't realise existed! That is great! Thanks a lot Natalie! - Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Natalie Buxton wrote: Armit You can force a page break before an image using css. page-break-before: always;

[WSG] Problems With Overflowing DIVs

2004-11-16 Thread Joey
Hi Guys, This is my first post here, i am gradually getting into web standards and CSS based design. But i am having problems with a simple layout at the moment. If you take a look at this page: http://www.burninthespotlight.com/topics/page1810666.html (this page has no design yet, i want it to

Re: [WSG] Problems With Overflowing DIVs

2004-11-16 Thread dsweeney
Hey Joey, On first inspection I think your problem is setting the width to 100%. The three overflowing divs within the ctpost have settings that have the width of the parent element and are then shifted 175px to the right, hence the overflow. Try just using margin-left: 175px (no need for the

Re: [WSG] Avoiding image cut-off through CSS?

2004-11-16 Thread Natalie Buxton
It wont do that unless he puts the CSS in the img {}. You can do it inline for a specific image, paragraph, whatever, or in a span specifically for that purpose. You dont have to specify it globally for all images. On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:29:35 -, Tony Crockford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WSG] Problems With Overflowing DIVs

2004-11-16 Thread Joey
Hi Damian, Thanks for that info, i have ammended my CSS file as you said, and voila! http://www.burninthespotlight.com/topics/page1810666.html (Page with problem) http://www.burninthespotlight.com/styles/layout3.css (CSS File) It fixed some of the overflowing, only problem i have now, is that

Re: [WSG] Avoiding image cut-off through CSS?

2004-11-16 Thread Tony Crockford
At 11:30 on Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004, Natalie Buxton wrote: It wont do that unless he puts the CSS in the img {}. You can do it inline for a specific image, paragraph, whatever, or in a span specifically for that purpose. You dont have to specify it globally for all images. sure, but then you have to

[WSG] zoom, or text zoom?

2004-11-16 Thread designer
Hi All, I joined this group a couple of weeks ago and already have learnt lots of stuff. But, like all new folk to xhtml/css, I'm struggling to accept some of it. I've used CSS for a couple of years now, but only recently have moved to full CSS (no tables etc). The thing that worries me most is

RE: [WSG] zoom, or text zoom?

2004-11-16 Thread Patrick Lauke
From: designer Clearly, the use of ems is just a nightmare, esp when you have several images and have to guess what the em dimensions are, Images should still be specified in pixels, imho, as pixel size is an intrinsic property of raster images. I'd posit (but admittedly it's my personal

Re: [WSG] zoom, or text zoom?

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Stratford
The best way to work around this is to make a fluid layout. Somethings will always not fit with your design. But the user would be more than used to websites breaking if they constantly need massive text on screen... designer wrote: Hi All, I joined this group a couple of weeks ago and already

Re: [WSG] zoom, or text zoom?

2004-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
designer wrote: I joined this group a couple of weeks ago and already have learnt lots of stuff. But, like all new folk to xhtml/css, I'm struggling to accept some of it. I've used CSS for a couple of years now, but only recently have moved to full CSS (no tables etc). The thing that

[WSG] Navigation inconsistent

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, I'm having rendering issues with the navigation at the following: http://working.ckimedia.com/index.php in firefox 1.0 MAC OS 10.2.8 all is well, in safari 1.0.3 the padding on the bottom border is inside the tabs. Would some one assist? ___ Knowing is not

[WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread brian cummiskey
I'm producing a small video, and per request, he wants it in wmv format. What's the extent of apple/linux guys being able to view this format? are their codecs for non-windows systems? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [Re: [WSG] video standards?]

2004-11-16 Thread Zulema
Original Message Subject: [WSG] video standards? From:brian cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Tue, November 16, 2004 11:40 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Terrence Wood
VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ is a player that handles (most) wmv movies and is available for a large number of platforms. I'm not a video expert, but heres my understanding of the market: 1. wmv files are a MS propriety implementation of MPEG4. 2. Generally the files are considerably smaller

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Edwin Horneij
--- brian cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm producing a small video, and per request, he wants it in wmv format. What's the extent of apple/linux guys being able to view this format? are their codecs for non-windows systems? There actually is a version of Windows Media Player

Re: [WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-16 Thread Aaron Holbrook
Link? On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:20:04 +1100, James Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a small issue on the home page with the hover state in firefox/win. On the link to the help page the hover state underline is pushing the content box and footer down by 1px creates a little

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Amit Karmakar
I dont know a whole lot about video stuff but I agree with Terrence and though Windows media is available for Mac OS, very few would install in let alone use it! .mov is a better way of going about surely. On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:28:34 -0800 (PST), Edwin Horneij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, If the client is at all flexible, I would suggest looking into .flv. The flash video fromat is taking off like wildfire, and with the flash player penetration, it is a stable solution: http://www.flashstreamworks.com/ C On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 09:40 AM, brian cummiskey wrote: I'm

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread brian cummiskey
Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, If the client is at all flexible, I would suggest looking into .flv. The flash video fromat is taking off like wildfire, and with the flash player penetration, it is a stable solution: http://www.flashstreamworks.com/ Looks great- But i don't have flash, nor have even

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Wayne Godfrey
Within QuickTime there are are many codecs available, including AVI, MPEGs 1 2 and MPEG 4, etc. This is what I've found (the hard way) when dealing with video: AVI is an old MS codec that they haven't supported in years that thrill Windows users because of the small file sizes. IMHO, the

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Andrew Thompson
.mov is QuickTime and Windows users are as likely to download and install that as Mac users are to install Windows Media Player. And even if you use Windows Media Player, the issue of codecs remains - not all codecs are available for the Mac and some do not play at all or play the video with no

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Tom Livingston
Brian, .mov is both platforms (don't know about Linux, but don't doubt it's there too) more so than .wmv. And iMovie is cheap and also a piece of cake to use, if not more so. ;) Also, to Chris's point, there are more people with Flash than anything else (both platforms included, again not up

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Kennon
Well, I guess that was the end. C On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 01:40 PM, brian cummiskey wrote: Looks great- But i don't have flash, nor have even messed around with it (frankly, i can't stand flash websites), ___ Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is

[WSG] legend formatting issues

2004-11-16 Thread Ted Drake
Our new site uses fieldsets on all of our forms and I've always had a bit of a struggle with the lengths of legends. I've tried adding a width to the legend but the browsers seem to ignore the width declaration. I'm especially having problems with IE gasp/ which is forcing the div with the

RE: [WSG] legend formatting issues

2004-11-16 Thread Web Usability
Hi Ted, Just a quick comment on legends that are too long. Modern screen readers like JAWS voice the legend before every form input label within a fieldset. As a result, some screen reader users might get a bit annoyed with your form (and the site) if, for example, they have to hear a whole lot

[WSG] RE: legend formatting issues

2004-11-16 Thread Ted Drake
So, I've been sitting here blaming my legend for the page falling apart and I think I need to apologize. I'm sorry legend, I may have been wrong. Do you forgive me? Well, that makes me feel better, but it doesn't solve my problem. I threw some borders on my divs and elements and

[WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread Kristof Rutten
Hi WSG members, I've been working on my first -total webstandards- project for some time now. It's enteing it's final stage, now only content has to be applied to it. Would you be so kind to do a little site-check to see if it all works out ? I've tested it so far in

Re: [WSG] zoom, or text zoom?

2004-11-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:51:58 -, designer wrote: - Opera has a beautiful zoom feature which simply magnifies everything and keeps the design intact, so isn't that the way browsers should be going, instead of just acting on the text? I love Opera, but it's not perfect. If you have a layer

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Matthew
Hugh Todd wrote: I had a listen Frank Casanova's talk, given recently at the CTIA Wireless IT Entertainment Conference in San Francisco ( http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/ctia2004/ ), and was impressed by the commitment Apple appears to be showing to open standards in video and audio media.

Re: [WSG] Positioning text

2004-11-16 Thread Damian Sweeney
Try z-index: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_z-index.asp Damian I am trying to get the graphic logo (CRF logo above) in my header to be positioned behind the grapic and between (CRF) and This is some text for testing purposes. Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you. HTML:

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread miletto
Hi, excepting the font size in the content, everything seems to be ok, at least with Opera 6.05 PC, an old version that always show something different and i usually use to the final standard check. The look is very cool. Manara Citando Kristof Rutten [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi WSG members,

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread David Laakso
Kristof Rutten wrote: Hi WSG members, I've been working on my first -total webstandards- project for some time now. It's enteing it's final stage, now only content has to be applied to it. Would you be so kind to do a little site-check to see if it all works out ? I've tested it so far in

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread Henry Tapia
Hey Kristof, First up, it's looking clean, smart and fresh. Just some points that immediately spring to mind: - Nav: hard to read white text on light blue button background - List of links on the left: on IE/Win the buttons don't behave as you'd expect unless you hover over the text

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Hugh Todd
Matthew, You make some good points. However: 1) The MPEG-LA (Licensing Authority), as far as I know, is only the legal clearing-house for the MPEG-4 technology, which has been developed at the behest of a large number of the manufacturers and developers in the video market. No one person or

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Kristof Rutten wrote: http://www.sportopolis.be I've tested it so far in Safari/Firefox/Camino/Firefox on PC/IE on PC and I see no problems. But hey ;) Find a UXGA 15 laptop, then show it to your grandparents using IE. They probably won't be able to read any of your content or links

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread Francesco
Hrmm, my Firefox default seting looks just fine to me. Felix, is yours set to abnormally low values? Francesco On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:58 -0500, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Find a UXGA 15 laptop, then show it to your grandparents using IE. They probably won't be able to read any

RE: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Peter Tilbrook
Like many Internet technologies it can be difficult, if not impossible, to go to a standard, particularly video which has matured enormously. If you have the resources to offer video in multiple formats (Real, Windows Media, Flash, etc) good for you (and nothing derogatory meant by that). I

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Chris Blown
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:33, Damian Sweeney wrote: .mov is generally not available for Linux (with the exception of using Codeweavers wine ($$) to run Quicktime for Windows in Linux). The Linux mplayer plugin for Firefox [1] will play pretty much everything I have tested, though some of the M$

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Hugh Todd
Peter, I think Macromedia's Flash product has a lot going for it, particularly in the player penetration stakes. Anything that can make both publishing and viewing video content on the web can only be a good thing (unless it is more pr0n). A good argument, though not a standards-based one! But

Re: [WSG] DreamWeaver Template Left (or Right) Halo Nav in DW MX2004

2004-11-16 Thread csslist
ok maybe its just the way u said this but its gotta be the dumbest thing i have ever read [quote]I imagined MacroMedia would not turn out a template that did not work in all browsers on all platforms.[/quote] i mean come on if it makes u feel better to pass some blame then blame who it is

Re: [WSG] Site-Check:

2004-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
Francesco wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:58 -0500, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [about http://www.sportopolis.be] Find a UXGA 15 laptop, then show it to your grandparents using IE. They probably won't be able to read any of your content or links without a cumbersome magnifier.