Re: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

2005-08-10 Thread Ingo Chao
Rachel Radford wrote: Is there any other reliable way of mimicking the old-school valign for table layouts? I realy don't want to use hacky stuff or any javascript stuff cause already there is so much hacks just for IE!!! Unfortunately, no, there is no way without massive hacking. Bruno

RE: [WSG] IE min-width problem

2005-08-10 Thread Ben Wrighton - StraightForward
http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/- is a good article on using IE expressionsto control text width. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Tania MorrisSent: Wednesday, 10 August 2005 4:20 p.m.To:

[WSG] Flash and 100% height - retry and apologies

2005-08-10 Thread Brendan Smith
Firstly, not to excuse the format of my previous email, but I'm stuck with the Outlook Web Access mail client. Try as I might to get it to send text emails, this is as close as it gets. I apologise for any inconvenience it may have caused. I have to say it was dishearteningto see my request

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

2005-08-10 Thread Kwok Ting Lee
Thanks for the link. Thankfully, this being Chinese poetry, indentation isn't a problem: Chinese poetry is frightfully regular, as in lines of precisely 4 characters (syllables) (with some abberations which may be attributed to its origins in folk poetry and song -- the syllables may have been

[WSG] Sliced Image Dilema

2005-08-10 Thread Jeff D. Reid
Can anyone here please post urls to some reading regarding the use of sliced images in building a website vs using CSS instead. Kind of a "pros and cons" type of paper. Thanks Jeff D. ReidMIS DepartmentDavitt-Hanser Music CompanyCincinnati,

RE: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-10 Thread patboens
Hi, This is stuff we're pretty much used to deal with on a daily basis, here in Belgium. We have 3 national languages : Dutch, German, and French. Not only do we do this on websites but also in regular software in which dynamic switching between languages should be possible, or printing in

RE: [WSG] bi-lingual page?

2005-08-10 Thread Patrick Lauke
patboens You can easily decide to hide text in a certain language via CSS: *[lang=en] { display:none }. But this will NOT work with IE unfortunately. Although, when CSS is off (or when using older screen readers which do actually read out things hidden via display:none), the page will look

Re: [WSG] Flash and 100% height - retry and apologies

2005-08-10 Thread Martin Heiden
Brendan, Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 um 12:41:53 haben Sie geschrieben: I have changed tact with my problem with the suggestions I received. I'm now trying an absolute layout and I think I'm closer, but IE is still nabbing me with it's insistence that the Flash application must be set to

[WSG] footer at bottom of page

2005-08-10 Thread Bruce Gilbert
I was hoping someone could look at this page http://www.wealthdevelopmentmortgage.com/Bruce/Company.htm and help me with getting the footer at the absolute bottom of the page. Right now, as I look at in in FF PC, there is some of the body which shows below it. The body is green and the footer is

Re: [WSG] footer at bottom of page

2005-08-10 Thread bit
hey, i would try setting all body-margins explicit, so i mean the 0-margins too, to avoid the different browser-default-settings for the body-margin. maybe u'll have to set the top- bottom-margins for the main container too. /*global CSS for Wealth Development Mortgage*/body { margin: 2em 0 0

Re: [WSG] Sliced Image Dilema

2005-08-10 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Jeff D. Reid wrote: Can anyone here please post urls to some reading regarding the use of sliced images in building a website vs using CSS instead. Kind of a pros and cons type of paper. The pros are probably well covered in this http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/ (although the

Re: [WSG] Sliced Image Dilema

2005-08-10 Thread Carl Reynolds
Jeff D. Reid wrote: Can anyone here please post urls to some reading regarding the use of sliced images in building a website vs using CSS instead. Kind of a pros and cons type of paper. I find your question a little confusing. The use of sliced images and CSS are not mutually exclusive.

Re: [WSG] Sliced Image Dilema

2005-08-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Jeff D. Reid wrote: Can anyone here please post urls to some reading regarding the use of sliced images in building a website vs using CSS instead. Kind of a pros and cons type of paper. I'm not sure I understand your question. Is it about tables used to hold sliced images, like some Graphics

Re: [WSG] Sliced Image Dilema

2005-08-10 Thread sam sherlock
I think your question should be rephrazed a little table based sliced image html (as seen in david seaguls book Killer Websites) Vs Webstandard 'Tableless' CSS design table based sliced image layout pros     easy to produce consistant layout     may even use images instead of text (at the

[WSG] No Preload Rollover Issue

2005-08-10 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, At the following url: (http://ckimedia.com/bushido_fall/index.htm) there's trouble with the no-preloader rollovers, the a state is fine except hiding the over state, also having issues getting the a:hover state into the same position. I've looked over several tutorials, but am still

Re: [WSG] No Preload Rollover Issue

2005-08-10 Thread Chris Kennon
They don't line-up in safari 2.0 either I having issues with hiding the :hover state. On Aug 10, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Kenny Graham wrote: Not sure exactly what you're wanting it to do. If you want it to hide the images until you move the mouse over them, then it works in decent browsers, but

Re: [WSG] footer at bottom of page

2005-08-10 Thread Terrence Wood
http://solardreamstudios.com/learn/css/footerstick/ On 11 Aug 2005, at 3:22 AM, Bruce Gilbert wrote: help me with getting the footer at the absolute bottom of the page. kind regards Terrence Wood. ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] No Preload Rollover Issue[solved]

2005-08-10 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Step away for lunch, upon returning, this solution seems to have worked, is this a cross-platform solution? C On Aug 10, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Chris Kennon wrote: They don't line-up in safari 2.0 either I having issues with hiding the :hover state. On Aug 10, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Kenny

[WSG] Accessibility articles for those interested

2005-08-10 Thread SunUp
Hi folks, As an information professional I read a lot of for librarians publications. The current issue of Ariadne (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/) has several articles that might be of interest to some in this group: Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool

Re: [WSG] Sliced Image Dilema

2005-08-10 Thread Jeff D. Reid
Yes this is what I was searching for in a nutshell. I have been researching pros and cons of using an image created for print as a web page. I am really striving towards revamping all our brand sites to meet web standards and accessibility issues. Biggest hurdle is working with the files I

[WSG] Sydney WSG Meeting - Now Tuesday 30 August

2005-08-10 Thread Peter Firminger
Rather than organise two events in a week and have Lisa Herrod do her presentation twice, the September Sydney WSG meeting has been combined with the Web Essentials Free Briefing so it is now to be held on TUESDAY 30 August in the theatre at the Museum. Also note the earlier start time of

Re: [WSG] IE min-width problem

2005-08-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:20:27 +0800, Tania Morris wrote: ...  except that due to the fact that IE doesn't accept min-width, it  becomes quick ugly in IE when the window is resized... Tania, you may also like to look at Stu Nicholls's CSS-only method of enforcing min-width. It seems to be