Re: [WSG] using scalable vector graphics

2005-07-18 Thread dwain
Gary Menzel wrote: Browsers that dont support SVG natively require some type of embed tag. here is what i have. i created an abstract graphic in illustrator and saved it as a svg file. according to adobe one uses the embed src... tag to place the file in a web page. the page sticks in

[WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: Browser hijacking for usability Hi All, I've had an idea recently I wanted to ask about, as it's slightly shady, but I think it has some value. I'm near the end of a redesign and am working on the help section currently, there's some troubleshooting advice on pop-ups, which although

RE: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

2005-07-18 Thread Scott Swabey \(Lafinboy Productions\)
Title: Message Jamie Mason I've been thinking about whether it would help to automatically fix these problems by using registry keys, for example. Ask the question of yourself - if you were instructed by a website to run a file that changed registry settings on your pc, would you do it?

Re: [WSG] using scalable vector graphics

2005-07-18 Thread Ben Ward
Use the object tag, just like we do with Flash. The SVG mimetype (type atrribute) is image/svg+xml so you'd have something like: object type=image/svg+xml data=image.svg !-- fallback content -- /object You can add width and heigh into that if you need to (though that rather defeats the purpose

RE: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

2005-07-18 Thread TN38 [Admin]
Title: Message Not to mention youre talking IE/Win only which is a dwindling market. Sounds worse than ActiveX to me J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Swabey (Lafinboy Productions) Sent: 18 July 2005 12:00 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

2005-07-18 Thread Juergen Auer
On 18 Jul 2005 at 11:34, Jamie Mason wrote: What do you think? Hi Jamie, a web page which says: 'Please load this registry file' ... I would go away. A virus is harmless in comparison to a Reg-File. Regards Juergen Auer http://www.sql-und-xml.de/

RE: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability Hi All, Agreed! *throws idea towards the bin* Cheers! Jamie

[WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread kvnmcwebn
hello, Im trying to style some dynamicly loaded text within a table cell, shouldnt be a big deal right. By default the text keeps reverting back to times and i cant find out why. The font style's in the linked body and td rules just are'nt applying to it. The only tag thats working for me that

Re: [WSG] Prototype Framework

2005-07-18 Thread ByteDreams
very interesting! - Original Message - From: Dennis Lapcewich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:34 AM Subject: RE: [WSG] Prototype Framework See http://openrico.org/home.page for applications based on it. Bret Lester

RE: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Ouch That is some messy code. Could you show us some of your output? I've got little experience with asp.net, but I've noticed the asp:label outputs its own set of spans with inline styles. The problem may lie with your asp:label tag and not creating a series of nested spans, strongs, etc with

Re: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Im trying to style some dynamicly loaded text within a table cell, shouldnt be a big deal right. By default the text keeps reverting back to times and i cant find out why. Without seeing the live page (actual output rather than server side code) and css it's just a guessing game. My

[WSG] nth child rule

2005-07-18 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi All I'm working on a re-design of my blog. The design is based on the Passion of Joan of Arc, a b/w silent film. I'm trying to give certain paragraphs the impression of scratched film being shown by adding an animated background image. It's still rough, but works ok. However, I have only

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Anthony Cartmell
Jeremy, How much JavaScript do you know? Some, but not much. Mostly learnt from hacking other people's scripts to get them to do what I want them to do. I spend more time Googling than writing Javascript code from memory. What kind of things about DOM Scripting need clarifying?

RE: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi Jeremy I would like some tutorials on taking older scripts that require body onload() commands and make them work without placing the event in the body tag. I'd also like a tutorial on removing the javascript from pages and target the classes assigned to those elements instead. For instance,

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, The question was inspired by the article :) C On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Jeremy Keith wrote: By a bizarre cosmic coincidence, you've posed this question on the very day that the Web Standards Project announces the DOM Scripting Task Force:

RE: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Edward Clarke
Mark's site is useful too. http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ Eddie. http://blog.tn38.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Kennon Sent: 18 July 2005 19:29 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Learning The DOM Hi, As many of

RE: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread kvnmcwebn
'Ouch That is some messy code.' The code is very messy, i had originally built the site carefully with divs and was down to one validation error when i handed it over to the programmer. He recreated my design with tables and handed it back with hundreds of validation errors. He had looked at

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Novitski
Reference, not tutorial: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/ Paul At 11:29 AM 7/18/2005, Chris Kennon wrote: As many of you, more skilled than I, carry the burden of spreading good practices, I'm calling upon you for resources for learning the DOM. I've an understanding of Javascript,

Re: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread Ben
I think the font-bold=true might be causing you problems. I try to avoid using the any of the style related attributes for ASP.NET tags, since it's hard to predict what it will output to the browser. If I want to style ASP.NET tags I set the class of the asp:label /'s by using the cssclass

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Damian Sweeney
How much JavaScript do you know? Next to none. What kind of things about DOM Scripting need clarifying? Potential pitfalls, how browser support differs and what constitutes 'behaviour'. Do you want to see examples of cool stuff with a kind of DOM Scripting for dummies style explanation or

Re: [WSG] Learning The DOM

2005-07-18 Thread Leslie Riggs
And now, I'd like to turn the question around and ask everyone on this list what they'd like to see from the DSTF. How much JavaScript do you know? Minimal. I can read it enough to understand what a script is doing but I haven't written JavaScript from scratch yet. What kind of things

RE: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread kvnmcwebn
Thanks, that looks clean Ben, but i couldnt get it to work-to much for me to handle. was this example TD class=featured strong class=headspan id=lblbusiness_nameBusinessName/spanbr/strong strong class=listingspan id=lblAddressAddress Text/spanbr/strong shorthand for this?? TD class=featured

Re: [WSG] what tag will work here

2005-07-18 Thread Ben
The first bit of code was expected output of the code you supplied. What I think you should do is remove the strong tags and the font-bold attribute, add cssclass attributes to the asp:labels instead. e.g., TD class=featured

Re: [WSG] nth child rule

2005-07-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 19 Jul 2005, at 1:56 am, Drake, Ted C. wrote: Here's my question, are there special rules for using nth-child pseudo classes? Beyond first, second, third, ... what are the labels? Sixth, seventh, tenth? That is what I would assume. Here's the prototype:

[WSG] can link color inherit?

2005-07-18 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Here's a new one for me. I'm building a transitional css file for our move from legacy code to new css. The pages have an inline style that defines the color of a link in the navigation table (stop your snickering!) The new CSS has given a visited link color of blue-grey. When I view the page, the

[WSG] text alignment on form submit buttons

2005-07-18 Thread Peter Ottery
hi, I'd like to left align the text in a form submit button. The following seems to work in IE (5.5+), but not in Firefox: form action=whatever input type=submit value=Submit style=width:20em;text-align:left / /form (simplified and made inline for the sake of an

Re: [WSG] text alignment on form submit buttons

2005-07-18 Thread Amit Karmakar
Pete, Tricky but how about giving a padding right thats wide enough to push the text left? e.g: form action=""> input type=submit value=Submit style=width:20em;text-align:left;padding-right:15em;margin-left:0 / /form On 19/07/05, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi,I'd like to left align

[WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi All Just wondering whether there was a way to include different body background colors (for different pages) within the same css file. For example #fff for page1.html, #ffc for page2.html etc. At present I have a separate style sheet for each page that requires a different background color.

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Just wondering whether there was a way to include different body background colors (for different pages) within the same css file. For example #fff for page1.html, #ffc for page2.html etc. If every page has to have a different background colour, you could put an ID on the body element,

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Lindsay Evans
Hi Sarah, The easiest way to achieve this is by sticking an ID attribute on your body elements, eg. body id=page1 body id=page2 Then targetting it in your CSS like so: body#page1 {background-color:#fff;} body#page2 {background-color:#ffc;} On 7/19/05, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Ian Main
Hi Sarah, The way I do this is by applying an id to my body tag in the source of the pages I want to be different then the master page. For example: page.html body page2.html: body id=bg2 page3.html: body id=bg3 CSS: body { background: #fff; } #bg2 { background: #ffc; } #bg3 { background:

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Peter Asquith
Absolutely; give your body tags an id representing the page: e.g. body id=page1 body id=page2 etc Then add CSS entries for each page that requires a particular style to your stylesheet: #page1 { background-color: #fff; } #page2 { background-color: #ffc; } etc. Cheers Peter Sarah

Re: [WSG] text alignment on form submit buttons

2005-07-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 19 Jul 2005, at 10:00 am, Peter Ottery wrote: hi, I'd like to left align the text in a form submit button. The following seems to work in IE (5.5+), but not in Firefox: form action=whatever input type=submit value=Submit style=width:20em;text-align:left / /form

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread dwain
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Hi All Just wondering whether there was a way to include different body background colors (for different pages) within the same css file. For example #fff for page1.html, #ffc for page2.html etc. At present I have a separate style sheet for each page that requires a

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: Just wondering whether there was a way to include different body background colors (for different pages) within the same css file. For example #fff for page1.html, #ffc for page2.html etc. One way (with obvious variants) is to give your HTML or BODY element a class

Re: [WSG] using scalable vector graphics

2005-07-18 Thread dwain
Ben Ward wrote: Use the object tag, just like we do with Flash. The SVG mimetype (type atrribute) is image/svg+xml so you'd have something like: object type=image/svg+xml data=image.svg !-- fallback content -- /object would the fall back content maybe be a jpg, gif or png of the svg image?

Re: [WSG] Body tag background color changes

2005-07-18 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Thanks all for your lightning quick replies. I had tried some variation of these, but must have got it wrong somewhere. Much appreciated, Sarah G'day Just wondering whether there was a way to include different body background colors (for different pages) within the same css file. For