Re: [WSG] how to set table column widths with CSS

2008-01-18 Thread Keryx Web
Philippe Wittenbergh skrev: I'm styling the col element, not a descendant or child of col (there are none, anyway). (col:first-child applies to the first column, child of colgroup) width applies perfectly to the col element. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#columns I was surprised to

RE: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread michael.brockington
If the back button doesn't work, then I think you will find that history.go won't work either. Mike From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexey Ten Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:41 PM To:

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Alexey Ten
You can use history.go(-1) to go back. Also, there is document.referrer string, but it could be empty. On Jan 18, 2008 5:24 PM, Simon Cockayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing. I think Javascript History object is

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
But why? everyone knows about the back button, don't they? So you don't really need to help them. And if the previous site was yours and you want to see if they went from your site A to your site B then you could probably do this with sessions or by passing a variable forward through the

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Christian Snodgrass wrote: You shouldn't always assume that they are just trying to replace the back button. They could want to get the referrer for something else. From the thread starter .I just want to know what the previous page was...so I can create a button to go back to it.. P --

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread David Dorward
On 18 Jan 2008, at 14:24, Simon Cockayne wrote: I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing. Reliably? You can't. Unreliably? The (optional) HTTP referer header (which is munged by some personal firewall solutions). NOTE: I don't want to use the History

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread David Dorward
On 18 Jan 2008, at 17:23, Christian Snodgrass wrote: You shouldn't always assume that they are just trying to replace the back button. As assumptions go, when they say so I can create a button to go back to it..., it is a pretty safe one. And, not everyone knows about the back button.

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Woods
I completely agree with most of the comments so far. Why create functionality that is simply replicating the functionality of a browser? There was an article on text resizing a while ago that I'm sure most people are already aware of by Roger Johansson...

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Christian Snodgrass
When I read that, I thought about creating a button that finds the site you were at before you came in here, and then keeps that the same throughout the site, so no matter how many pages you go to, you can get back out of all of those and back where you were before you started that. That's a

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Martin Heiden
Simon, on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 15:24 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing. I think Javascript History object is the ticket...but STRICT mode in Firefox seems to tell me that I don't have permission to access

[WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Simon Cockayne
Hi, I am on a webpage...how do I know what page the browser was previously showing. I think Javascript History object is the ticket...but STRICT mode in Firefox seems to tell me that I don't have permission to access it. NOTE: I don't want to use the History object to go back or forward...I

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Christian Snodgrass
You shouldn't always assume that they are just trying to replace the back button. They could want to get the referrer for something else. And, not everyone knows about the back button. Don't assume... Joseph Ortenzi wrote: But why? everyone knows about the back button, don't they? So you

Re: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Harris
are there any SSI whizzes out there? I would have thought that you could use the referrer in an SSI to accomplish this sort of functionality. BTW: I am astonished at how few people understand the back button. And many more who don't trust it: a result of abuse, no doubt, from sites that break

RE: [WSG] Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Michael MD
When I read that, I thought about creating a button that finds the site you were at before you came in here, and then keeps that the same throughout the site, so no matter how many pages you go to, you can get back out of all of those and back where you were before you started that. That's a

[WSG] Re: Where did I come from?

2008-01-18 Thread Simon Cockayne
Hi, Are we agreed that the back button *should* take one to the previous page? I use an internal web application (it's a helpdesk issue tracking system...not developed by me) where they developers have hijacked/messed with that back button functionality so I cannot use the back button to get