Re: [WSG] Proper IE Hacks

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Allan
Wayne, It *is* confusing. But, yes, a separate stylesheet, loaded via conditional comments is the most future proof method. Not exactly what Phillipe is describing, but along the same lines. Perhaps this will help get you going: http://phonophunk.phreakin.com/news/?p=46 Cheers, Mike

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2005-08-09 Thread Bennie, Jack
Hey guys I'm getting some bizarre behaviour from my footer. In IE6 when the page loads it seems to sit in the middle of the page/content but when I mouse over the nav on the left it sorts its self out? In IE5, a similar problem occurs when I change the width of the browser window: the footer

[WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread Brendan Smith
Hi all, I've come crawling back with some issues. I never seem to be much help to anyone else - I hope someone can help me here. I have a page that has a banner, a menu, a side (tree) menu, a flash image viewing app as the main content, a control pannel and a footer. My (unobtainable?) goal

Re: [WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 8/9/05 3:00 AM Brendan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I've come crawling back with some issues. I never seem to be much help to anyone else - I hope someone can help me here. Grey tiny text. del msg ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] self-counting list items

2005-08-09 Thread Ben Ward
Yes, it's already implemented in the development versions of Firefox. If you download Deer Park Alpha 2 (for TESTING!), you should be able to play with all the CSS improvements. http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2005/07/12/deer-park-alpha-2-released/ Ben http://ben-ward.co.uk

[WSG] Interview: BBC TBL

2005-08-09 Thread TN38 [Admin]
Just a heads up to an interesting article about the big man himself and the future of the web; due for broadcast on the UK's BBC2 tonight 22:30 BST. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4132752.stm Eddie http://blog.tn38.net ** The

Re: [WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Roger that. I gave up after Hi all'. Plain text, please, people?! N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On 9 Aug 2005, at 8:05 PM, Rick Faaberg wrote: On 8/9/05 3:00 AM Brendan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I've come crawling back with

RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-09 Thread John Foliot - WATS.ca
Kwok Ting Lee wrote: This is, I guess, one of the first times I've written anything here, but I've run into a bit of a dilemma and was hoping for some advice: 1. I have a number of analyses of poems I am planning on posting to my weblog over the next few months, however, I'm a bit stumped

Re: [WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread Mugur Padurean
Wow ... Nick , you got so far ...

Re: [WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread russ - maxdesign
Full post below for those that could not read it. Rick has a valid point. The WSG guidelines say (amongst other things): Try to use plain text email rather than HTML email where possible. http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Now, can someone help Brendan out of his 4 day rut? Russ

Re: [WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread Martin Heiden
Brendan, cue organ music I've faltered my brothers (and sisters) - I ran screaming back to my javascript skills - crying for a solution to my woes - help me be strong! I used some javascript to calculate the heights and widths and set some dimensions of the divs and flash. Have you tried to

[WSG] Align text vertically in a division

2005-08-09 Thread patboens
Hello All, I am sure that you have described this issue thousand times before, but I cannot find the trick that will do this easily : how do you center text vertically in a division ? Easy to do with tables of course, but I would like to avoid using tables at all. euh ... as we say in French

[WSG] Nifty Corners page shift

2005-08-09 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, Although not entirely CSS related, I believe my problem is in the CSS... If anyone has used the CSS/JS Nifty Corners I would love to hear from you. I am having an issue where when these corners load (seemingly last in the page build) they are effectng the padding and causing a

Re: [WSG] Flash 100% wide layout issues - resorting to javascript - eek!

2005-08-09 Thread David Laakso
My (unobtainable?) goal is to have the flash viewer take up all available height and width of the viewer window. [..] / https://demo.hpa.com.au/OLM/test/apps/ies/viewer_alpha1.htm/ Brendan My reply assumes I understand the problem(and I am not sure of that, or much else, for that

Re: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

2005-08-09 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am sure that you have described this issue thousand times before, but I cannot find the trick that will do this easily : how do you center text vertically in a division ? Easy to do with tables of course, but I would like to avoid using tables at all.

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2005-08-09 Thread bit
I've tested the site on my IE6, FF1.0.6, NS8.0, Mozilla1.7.5 and Opera7.23 under WinXP Ubuntu Linux and there was no behavior as you described at all there. The only problem was the footer takes twice as long to load as the rest of the page.2005/8/9, Bennie, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hey

[WSG] FireFox DOM issue.

2005-08-09 Thread Buddy Quaid
Hi everyone, I'm new to this group and this is my first message. I am porting over a rich text editor that currently only works in IE. I have done tons of search about getting the selected text in a page. I'm very close...for instance...you can now see the formatting buttons and also I have the

Re: [WSG] firefox for OS9?

2005-08-09 Thread Dejan Kozina
This page should be it: http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive70x.jsp Kay Smoljak wrote: On 8/6/05, Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for a possibly off-topic post. We have a client on our intranet that needs to look at our site on OS9.2. I couldn't find information on

Re: [WSG] FireFox DOM issue.

2005-08-09 Thread Patrick Ryan
In firefox, I have had success with selectionStart and selectionEnd if you have a form: form name=a textarea name=b/textarea you can access the start and end points of the highlighted text (or get the position of the cursor in the text) with: startPoint = document.a.b.selectionStart;

[WSG] browser v.5 woes

2005-08-09 Thread Bruce Gilbert
I just checked a site I am working on in both PC and Mac v. 5.0 and the page is looking pretty crappy in those browsers. I am most interested in getting things looiking better in IE PC 5.0. The main probs are top menu scrunched together with side borders and h1 title page div not enough padding .

RE: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

2005-08-09 Thread Rachel Radford
Hi everyone, I'm replying to this because I am also stuck on the same issue. I have horizontal navigation that is floated (son of suckerfish style) and that has relative widths for scalable fonts. Some of the navigation text runs onto two lines, and some of them are short enough to be on one

Display: markerRE: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

2005-08-09 Thread Drake, Ted C.
I wonder if the display:markers would be useful for this? Has anyone played around with it before? From what I understand, the display marker can be best understood when looking at a list item. The bullet is the marker and the list information is the block it is associated with. Could the text

[WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-09 Thread Barry Beattie
hi all this is the first time I've done anything like this but I'm wondering what it takes to display two languages (and therefore two charsets) on the same page? - English and German the content will be a side-by-side translation of each language thanx barry.b PS: no doubt I'll have more

Re: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 10 Aug 2005, at 8:55 AM, Barry Beattie wrote: hi all this is the first time I've done anything like this but I'm wondering what it takes to display two languages (and therefore two charsets) on the same page? - English and German the content will be a side-by-side translation of each

RE: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-09 Thread Craig Rippon
You should have been at the Brisbane meeting last night! Where this very thing was spoken about. Went right over my head but John Bates gave an excellent talk on the topic. His website is at codeHQ.net. Check it out, his talk should be up there as well as a heap of other stuff CodeHQ.net/blog/

Re: [WSG] standards form?

2005-08-09 Thread Serdar Kılıç
Here's a tip for registration forms. Many times I have seen forms that allow you to enter the Country but then provide a list of *US* only states is crazy, please don't do this :)On 07/08/05, Svip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't suggest doing a single multi-porpuse form, as it wouldsimply just

Re: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-09 Thread Jan Brasna
English and German are both Latin1 languages, so no problem here. To be 100% safe use UTF8. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

RE: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

2005-08-09 Thread Scott Swabey \(Lafinboy Productions\)
Is there any other reliable way of mimicking the old-school valign for table layouts? I use a combination of display:table for those UA's that handle it, and a relative/absolute positioning hack for those that don't: .outer { border: 1px solid #000; display: table;

Re: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-09 Thread Lea de Groot
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:55:48 +1000, Barry Beattie wrote: this is the first time I've done anything like this but I'm wondering what it takes to display two languages (and therefore two charsets) on the same page? - English and German The lang attibute will probably be useful -

Re: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-09 Thread Anders Nawroth
Barry Beattie skrev: this is the first time I've done anything like this but I'm wondering what it takes to display two languages (and therefore two charsets) There can be only one charset on a webpage, but with unicode/utf-8 you still can have content in different languages on the same

Re: [WSG] Proper IE Hacks

2005-08-09 Thread Stuart Sherwood
Hi All, The tips and advice here is really fantastic. Highly appreciated. I have a problem with a submenu that works by altering the z-index. I have used the following hack which I'm not entirely happy with. Can someone suggest something better? #submenu a:hover { z-index: 20; z-index:

RE: [WSG] Proper IE Hacks

2005-08-09 Thread Buddy Quaid
Yes... I know what your talking about. Here is the javascript to get it working if you have a element with ID of nav startList = function() { if (document.alldocument.getElementById) { navRoot = document.getElementById(nav); for (i=0; inavRoot.childNodes.length; i++) { node =

Re: [WSG] Proper IE Hacks

2005-08-09 Thread David Laakso
Stuart Sherwood wrote: Hi All, The tips and advice here is really fantastic. Highly appreciated. I have a problem with a submenu that works by altering the z-index. I have used the following hack which I'm not entirely happy with. Can someone suggest something better? #submenu a:hover {

RE: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-09 Thread Joshua Street
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 08:56 -0400, John Foliot - WATS.ca wrote: Kwok Ting Lee wrote: This is, I guess, one of the first times I've written anything here, but I've run into a bit of a dilemma and was hoping for some advice: 1. I have a number of analyses of poems I am planning on posting

[WSG] IE min-width problem

2005-08-09 Thread Tania Morris
Hi Folks, I've been working on a site which has three columns which unfortunately need full height backgrounds, some have rounded corners and... well it's been tricky but it's all working ok... except that due to the fact that IE doesn't accept min-width, it becomes quick ugly in IE when

Re: [WSG] IE min-width problem

2005-08-09 Thread Al Sparber
Tania Morris wrote: Hi Folks, I've been working on a site which has three columns which unfortunately need full height backgrounds, some have rounded corners and... well it's been tricky but it's all working ok... except that due to the fact that IE doesn't accept min-width, Any pearls of

Re: [WSG] IE min-width problem

2005-08-09 Thread Al Sparber
Tania Morris wrote: You can look at the beta site at http://dev.papercutmedia.com/perthjazz/ BTW - you have a little script error: Error: missing } in compound statement Source File: http://dev.papercutmedia.com/perthjazz/ Line: 120, Column: 40 Source Code: if(typeof sIFR == function){