[WSG] Web Standards Meetup London July Meeting

2008-07-14 Thread Joe Ortenzi
Morning Standardistas I'd like to announce the next instalment in the Web Standards Meetup London July Meeting For those of you living and working in London UK, please check out: http://webstandards.meetup.com/130/calendar/8110079/ and hopefully come along for an evening of web chat and beer

[WSG] Centered List

2008-07-14 Thread Tyrone Joseph
Hi, This is my first post and I am fairly new to CSS. I'd like some help positioning a floated list. The image link is an example of that the design should look like (http://www.datadial.net/test/bb-example.gif ). The problem I am having is that I can float the list items to get them to

Re: [WSG] Centered List

2008-07-14 Thread Sam Sherlock
have a look at http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/developer-tools/list-o-matic/ I think your going to need to set the width of the ol (and the li inbetween) set the margin of your ol to someing like margin: 5px auto; get firefox+firebug as it will allow you to test styles in firebug

[WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Love Web Design
Hello, I wonder if anyone knows of or can advise on the following: I have been asked by a client to embed a font on their website - this is a custom made truetype font, also something I have not been asked to do before. I have therefore took to my books/research to look it up but am

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Wharton
Hi Sarah, Try using SIFR, it uses flash to render the font and then degrades nicely if end user does not have Flash plugin or javascript enabled. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/ Cheers Chris -- Chris Wharton www.cdwharton.com On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Love Web Design [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread David Dorward
On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:33, Love Web Design wrote: I have been asked by a client to embed a font on their website - this is a custom made truetype font, also something I have not been asked to do before. I have therefore took to my books/research to look it up but am coming across

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Michal Miksik
Maybe sIFR will help? See documentation: http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/ Michal On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Love Web Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wonder if anyone knows of or can advise on the following: I have been asked by a client to embed a font on their website

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Breton Slivka
The @font-face rule does appear in CSS 2.0, but not in 2.1. CSS 2.1 is a revision of CSS 2.0 made in response to a lack of implementation of certain features in CSS 2.0, so 2.1 closer resembles what is implemented. (however still plenty in 2.1 that is not perfectly implemented) @font-face

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Breton Slivka
Sorry I gave some bad version numbers here. (I was pulling numbers out my ass, memory is difficult) embedded font support actually began in IE4, and netscape 4. As I pointed out, it is not currently supported in firefox, (including firefox 3) However other typography solutions exist such as

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Andrew Cunningham
On Mon, July 14, 2008 10:56 pm, Breton Slivka wrote: Netscape version 6 (I think) supported @font-face, but support was removed from mozilla by the time firefox rolled around, and has not been added back to this day. From memory Netscape used Bitstream's proprietary TrueDoc technology.

[WSG] visibility problem in ie...z-index maybe?

2008-07-14 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, im using negative margins to put a png half over the edge of a wrapper div. Works good in ff, but breaks the layout in ie. Is there anything i can do to get ie to display the div like fire fox does or is this to tall an order for ie? -best kevin

RE: [WSG] Centered List

2008-07-14 Thread Tyrone Joseph
Thanks for your reply but this doesn't solve my problem as the size list will be controlled by a CMS. This means that there may be times when there are 7 options and there may be times when are 3 options. I somehow need to center the li elements without affecting other textual content

Re: [WSG] visibility problem in ie...z-index maybe?

2008-07-14 Thread David Owens
2008/7/14 kevin mcmonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi, im using negative margins to put a png half over the edge of a wrapper div. Works good in ff, but breaks the layout in ie. Is there anything i can do to get ie to display the div like fire fox does or is this to tall an order for ie? -best

[WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Love Web Design
Thank you to everyone You have helped a lot, I have spent the afternoon finding a solution which I shall now implement - with luck :) Sarah *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] visibility problem in ie...z-index maybe?

2008-07-14 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Thanks David, That works well in ie 6 7. I only had to add a negative margin in a conditional comment to the div that was getting pushed up. -best kevin David Owens wrote: Hi Kevin, You might be better off using position: relative; top: -35px; instead of the negative margin

Re: [WSG] Centered List

2008-07-14 Thread David Owens
2008/7/14 Tyrone Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for your reply but this doesn't solve my problem as the size list will be controlled by a CMS. This means that there may be times when there are 7 options and there may be times when are 3 options. I somehow need to center the li elements

[WSG] input type image

2008-07-14 Thread Taco Fleur
I have a question in regards to styling a submit button. I have the following HTML input name=doSearch type=image id=btnGo value=GO src=/certainedge/_resource/generic/image/btn_go.jpg alt=GO Please note: I'm more than happy for the HTML markup to change, to achieve the desired effect. Following

Re: [WSG] input type image

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Knowles
Taco Fleur wrote: I have a question in regards to styling a submit button. I have the following HTML input name=doSearch type=image id=btnGo value=GO src=/certainedge/_resource/generic/image/btn_go.jpg alt=GO Would it be acceptable to just use a input of type submit and leave the value

Re: [WSG] input type image

2008-07-14 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Taco Fleur wrote: I have a question in regards to styling a submit button. I have the following HTML input name=doSearch type=image id=btnGo value=GO src=/certainedge/_resource/generic/image/btn_go.jpg alt=GO Following is the CSS I used, which I hoped would change the image, but it doesn't.

Re: [WSG] input type image

2008-07-14 Thread Taco Fleur
That looks like it did the trick, had to pull the button up a bit with position: relative; top: -3px; I'm not sure why. Anyways, I ended up with button#btnGo { background: url(/proximer/_resource/generic/image/btn_go.jpg) top left no-repeat; border: none;

Re: [WSG] input type image

2008-07-14 Thread Sam Sherlock
chris's suggestion looks simluar to particletree's rediscovered button element button type='submitspanSubmit/span/button http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element/ 2008/7/15 Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Taco Fleur wrote: I have a question in regards to

Re: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:27:18 +0100, Love Web Design wrote: Thank you to everyone You have helped a lot, I have spent the afternoon finding a solution which I shall now implement - with luck :) If it works out, can you please share? Cordially, David --

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-07-14 Thread Ben Le Jeune
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RE: [WSG] [at]font-face confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Love Web Design
Hi David, I most certainly will, but obviously would like to try it/test it first :) Best for now, Sarah -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hucklesby Sent: 15 July 2008 02:14 To: Love Web Design Subject: Re: [WSG] [at]font-face