Re: [WSG] Is Mac IE 5 Support (Worth) It ?

2004-07-21 Thread Sarah Sammis
Remember that few people are as 'browser-aware' as we developers. Most people just want to get on with their lives and businesses. The technology they use to do so should be, ideally for them, transparent. So for now, yes, I test and hack where necessary for IE5. To not do so is to

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-20 Thread Sarah Sammis
If there were a california meeting, my vote goes for L.A. Sacramento, is well, Sacramento. Not exactly my idea of a place to visit and spend an extra day. San Francisco is great, but expensive. L.A. is more central, has plenty of room, and can be affordable. Of course, if my job covered

Re: [WSG] Trouble with safari

2004-05-06 Thread Sarah Sammis
On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 23:54 US/Pacific, russ - maxdesign wrote: Be more specific please. What is problem? Russ There is no visible navigation in Safari. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] My first CSS project---correction

2004-04-02 Thread Sarah Sammis
I also looked at the page at (1280x1024) and the text is overlapping the photo. Is that intentional? Hi! I tested your website and it's looking nice ;) One problem though, I viewed the about us in 1024 X 768 resolution and it looked fine, however, in anything less (e.g. 800 X 600) the padding

Re: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-03-31 Thread Sarah Sammis
Hi guys, [snip] So what am I actually asking? I'm interested in what you guys consider reasonable to expect from a graphic designer who also does some overflow html. What would you be looking for? What would you ask in the interview? Thanks for any ideas, K. -- Kay Smoljak

Re: [WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough?

2004-03-24 Thread Sarah Sammis
When you make both height and width 76.1% of the default, the result is less than 58% of the original. But in the end, it seems to me the user gets the same font size as if 'body {font-size: 100%;}, given that all the other font-sizes are set above 1em for regular paragraphs and above 0.9em

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-24 Thread Sarah Sammis
I know... but I can't get around the Mac IE bugs and it makes things even harder as I do not have a Mac to check against those bugs. Rather Mac IE and NS users see a plain text page than a broken design page. So got to hide the styles till I am able to buy me a Mac but by that time maybe

Netscape 4.7x Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-24 Thread Sarah Sammis
Hmm your comment is interesting. Interesting as in it makes me want to rethink the need to hide stylesheets or not to. There are many sites out there (be it professional or personal sites) hiding stylesheets from older browsers for e.g. the most common is Netscape 4x. Wouldn't Netscape 4x

Re: [WSG] Color Blindnesss

2004-03-22 Thread Sarah Sammis
Somewhere out there, I lost my link to it in an old HDD crash, there is a site that allows you to test your site using the various perceptions people with various types of color blindness suffer from - it was actually quite handy. But there is other sites out there now that atleast let you

Re: [WSG] CSS Shorthand for color

2004-03-22 Thread Sarah Sammis
The short hand will only work for web safe colors. That being said... 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A 10 B 11 C 12 D 13 E 14 F 15 F is the most on a color channel can be. 0 is the most off a color channel can be. The color channels are: R G B (red, green, blue) and the color mixing is additive. So as you

Re: [WSG] css from photoshop file?

2004-03-18 Thread Sarah Sammis
I have always written standards compliant css for a site around a clients recommendations as to colours and position of logos etc. Now I've been asked: You'd be fine doing the templates from supplied photoshop files? I guess this would mean replicating the look of a PSD file with css code?

RE: [WSG] Overcoming Rejections

2004-03-15 Thread Sarah Sammis
I've worked for companies that have websites that are so far afield of web standards that using something standard will break their web pages. This happens most often with web based content management systems. In those cases, it is best just to work with the company's standards rather than the

Re: [WSG] text and graphic on one line

2004-03-13 Thread Sarah Sammis
On Saturday, Mar 13, 2004, at 02:13 US/Pacific, Jaime Wong wrote: I use these for some fancy header.   .icon-Gal  {  background-image : url(icon_gal.gif);  background-repeat : no-repeat;  background-position : 125px;  padding-top   : 1em;  border-bottom  : 1px dotted #448687;  padding-left  :

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Sarah Sammis
Hi Peter, The design appears to be clean. The site loads fast for me. My only wee critique is that the gray font color doesn't have much contrast compared to the background colors used. If it were a bit darker it would be easier to read. Otherwise, I'm going to enjoy reading through the site.

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Sarah Sammis
CSS is great that way. The text is easier to read now. Cheers Sarah On Thursday, Mar 11, 2004, at 20:28 US/Pacific, Universal Head wrote: Now THIS is why I love CS - I've just increased the contrast a little. Easss Peter On 12/03/2004, at 3:13 PM, Sarah Sammis wrote: If it were