[WSG] Cool color picker

2004-01-29 Thread Anton Andreasson
http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html Very nice... /Anton -- What your body lacks, your head compensates. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Cool color picker

2004-01-29 Thread Martin Chapman
WhooHoo! That's fantastic! Great for clients to tell you which of the 20 billion colours they'd like you to change their site to! ;o) On 29 Jan 2004, at 13:43, Anton Andreasson wrote: http://www.pixy.cz/apps/barvy/index-en.html Very nice... /Anton -- What your body lacks, your head

RE: [WSG] Cool color picker

2004-01-29 Thread Michael Kear
I've used that several times now for setting out the colours I'm going to use in a site. It's excellent because you can pick a base colour, perhaps out of the client's logo or something, and get a range of colours around it or complementary to it. And you can tweak the colours just a little

[WSG] Fun with CSS!

2004-01-29 Thread Cameron Adams
{text-align: bottom} got you down? {background-color: #FF} making you feel blue? Then have a game of SSCrabble -- the fun way to pass the time with Web Standards! :o] http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/01/27/ -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com

[WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread Anton Andreasson
Anyone knows of the support for background (24bit) PNGs in IE/Win? I've seen PNGs show up with a gray box around it, but does this apply when using them in background-image: as well? TIA, /Anton -- What your body lacks, your head compensates.

[WSG] A few quick links...

2004-01-29 Thread russ weakley
A strangely unstyled page, but some excellent concise info on accessibility (via Mark Stanton): http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/accessibility.htm l Daily Standards - dedicated to recognizing sites that have been lovingly crafted with web standards and the future in

Re: [WSG] Fun with CSS!

2004-01-29 Thread russ weakley
Cameron! This is truly amazing. Right up there with CSS Pencils and the CSS House - strange but amazing uses of CSS and XHTML. Russ Then have a game of SSCrabble -- the fun way to pass the time with Web Standards! :o] http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/01/27/

Re: [WSG] A few quick links...

2004-01-29 Thread Anton Andreasson
A strangely unstyled page, but some excellent concise info on accessibility Heh, I like this one: acronym title=World Web WebWWW/acronym ;) Otherwise a good read. /Anton -- What your body lacks, your head compensates. * The discussion

Re: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread James Ellis
Transparent PNG's are unsupported in IE/Win - you have to use some DirectX malarkey to get that running (don't). I haven't yet found any problems with normal PNG's but then I use PNG8 as a Gif replacement. HTH James Anton Andreasson wrote: Anyone knows of the support for background (24bit)

RE: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread Hill, Tim
I have found problems with the colour displaying correctly in IE, because I want the png to complement the background colour it blends fine in moz but in IE it displays with a different shade and ruins it. Which is the reason I haven't switched to using png (even 8bit) all the time. Tim Hill

Re: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread Cameron Adams
The gray box appears in IE when someone specifies an alpha channel in the PNG -- IE can't handle the transparency, so it renders a gray background. I expect it would be the same with background images. There's an IE 6 workaround to PNG transparency, someone else will have to tell you about it

Re: [WSG] A few quick links...

2004-01-29 Thread Cameron Adams
That's probably the most interesting Zen Garden entry I've seen. Something other than just styling of the content. -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

Re: [WSG] New CMS / Framework

2004-01-29 Thread Gary Greer
Have you looked at typo3? I use it and find it very good. It's GPL, able to run under windows or *nix, extend able and well supported. The html isn't fully compliant yet, but it's being worked on - it's also not that hard to hack the code to do what you want. www.typo3.com and www.typo3.org

Re: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread russ weakley
position: absolute That is the culprit - makes text selection impossible in IE Russ Hey Everyone, Long time since I last wrote to the group! I was just developing a new website, and I have been having that very annoying problem in IE ­ where the text, wont be selectable like

Re: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread russ weakley
Here is a test page to show you. Check it with Win/IE6: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/try-and-highlight-me.htm You can't select the text. Another gotta-love-ie thing :) Russ position: absolute That is the culprit - makes text selection impossible in IE Russ Hey Everyone,

RE: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Stratford
A really! Thats what it was, ok thanks! That fixed the head problem, now I know why... Can I get around that? Anyway possible? It needs to be absolute - because of the table look it has now... Thanks! - Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.neester.com

[WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Well, after lurking on here for several weeks, I'm finally taking the plunge and asking a question. (And getting rather alliterative in my subject line... Sorry...) I have a navigation bar with sub-menus based on the list structure and run primarily by CSS. The problem I am having is

Re: [WSG] What to do?

2004-01-29 Thread Justin French
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 09:56 AM, Paul De Audney wrote: Hi people, I was wondering if any one has encountered a situation where you are aware of some one ripping parts of your code etc, design and colour schemes and using them on a site competing in a similar field. Is there much I

RE: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Ottery
Title: RE: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE. Russ wrote: Here is a test page to show you. Check it with Win/IE6: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/try-and-highlight-me.htm mmm, interesting, without wanting to sound like an IE fan ;-), I can select that text no problem using

RE: [WSG] What to do? [Now OT]

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Firminger
Yes it's interesting but not a web standards discussion. Please reply to this thread off list. Peter * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Bradley Wright
Just a quickie about validation, you've got an invalid doctype declaration: !DOCTYPE xhtml PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; the html should be html just to make it easy here's the proper one: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC

Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread davidm
A few things I noticed with your html. Your doctype line has xhtml between DOCTYPE and PUBLIC instead of html. You are missing xml:lang and lang attributes from your opening html element. Here is a suggested correct example of these two lines. !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0

RE: [WSG] What to do?

2004-01-29 Thread Paul De Audney
Hi, It's more of a cease and desist thing I think. Because we are both in the same fields (jewellery sales etc). They popped up in our logs a bit, doing a bit more of tracking down, they were using images linked off our server (fools) but have now just copied them and not even renamed them. I

Re: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread russ weakley
Ok, let me refine my earlier sweeping statement :) In all of the IE's you can double and triple click. In IE6 only, there are drag-selection issues with absolutely positioned items. In IE5 and 5.5, you can drag-select like any other browser - you can start selecting from inside the box or

Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Martin E
Hello Seona,I haven't looked into the far-to-the-right sub menu issue yet, but I can fix your validation problem. Your DOCTYPE is incorrectly written:Current:!DOCTYPE xhtml PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"Needs to

RE: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Stratford
Title: RE: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE. What build of IE6 you got? I have Internet Explorer: 6.00.2800.1276 And I cant select anything on that page Or mine! - Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.neester.com

Re: [WSG] What to do?

2004-01-29 Thread James Ellis
Try http://www.archive.org to show prior art... then send an extremely specific email to them outlining the risks they are taking with some links to your site on archive.org if possible. Paul De Audney wrote: Is there much I can do? Or should I just deal

Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Justin French
Seona, http://alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ This is the best implementation I've seen so far, and I'm using it in a client site to be launched next week. Works and extensively tested in: Win IE 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 Win Moz 1.0.2 Win Firebird 0.7 MacOSX Safari 1.0 MacOSX Mozilla 1.0.2 MacOSX

RE: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks to Martin, David and Bradley for helping me with the validation thing. I had tried looking on the W3C site for the answer and just couldn't find it. *sigh* Now, anyone game to take a crack at the menu issue? :) Cheers, Seona. -Original Message-From: Martin E

Re: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread Simon Jessey
I use a piece of software called TweakPNG [ http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/ ] which enables you to create a background color to cope with transparency issues in IE. The background color is only added when necessary, but it means that you have to rework PNGs when you change the color. It

Re: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread Simon Jessey
If I remember correctly, you can get it to work by using Quirks Mode, but that is likely to cause other problems. Simon Jessey -- mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://jessey.net/blog/ work: http://keystonewebsites.com/ - Original Message - Here is a

Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Simon Jessey
I usually do this when I want to feed IE with different values: selector { rules that work with IE } parentselector { rules hidden from IE that override the previous rules } In this case: selector { left: value; } parentselector { left: 0; margin-left: value; } Simon Jessey

RE: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
I love you forever. *grin* It works just fine now in both. Thank you thank you thank you. :) Cheers, Seona. -Original Message- From: Simon Jessey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across

Re: [WSG] Background PNGs in IE/Win?

2004-01-29 Thread Chris Blown
Just for the record... I wouldn't recommend using this, but it does work. This is totally a DirectX hack and only works in Windows IE. filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='images/image.png',sizingMethod='scale'); Regards Chris Blown PS. I am not totally against CSS

Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Justin French
On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 01:11 PM, Hugh Todd wrote: Justin, you wrote, The original article couldn't get Safari to work, but somehow I stumbled upon a solution last night, which I'm yet to figure out, but I'll report back when I do. Works for me. Could this be because a) I'm using

Re: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread James Ellis
Taco Two reasons I can think of... *copy and paste with the mouse *select text in a page and do a search for it in a search engine such as Google. Cheers James Taco Fleur wrote: I don't knowfor what reason you want your visitors to be able to select text, but mine is

RE: [WSG] What Causes Selection Problems In IE.

2004-01-29 Thread Taco Fleur
What I was saying was/ or trying to say"I don't know for what reasons he wants to fix this problem", I can think of many reasons why! But my main reason is for the one Imentioned. Maybe it's my bad grammar again? Taco Fleur07 3535 5072 Blog:

[WSG] document type does not allow element error

2004-01-29 Thread Taco Fleur
Title: document type does not allow element error Can enyone tell me what the following means? Line 59, column 3: document type does not allow element H3 here; missing one of APPLET, OBJECT, MAP, IFRAME, BUTTON start-tag h3Some text/h3 This is the first non validating line and it just

RE: [WSG] document type does not allow element error

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Stanton
Hey Taco If you go through the DTD it outlines what elements are allowed inside which other elements. For example: + Only li tags are allowed immediately inside ul ol tags. + Block level elements are not allowed inside inline elements (eg. div inside span) When you stuff one of these rules

RE: [WSG] document type does not allow element error

2004-01-29 Thread Taco Fleur
Hi Mark, The url http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tacofleur.com%2Findex%2Fmethodology%2F+ http://www.tacofleur.com/index/methodology/ Reason I was going through was because I downloaded Mozilla today, yep finally made the big move. Had a look at my site, saw some new

RE: [WSG] document type does not allow element error

2004-01-29 Thread Taco Fleur
Yikes, I really need to learn to re-read my emails before I sent them.. Let's try it again. Hi Mark, The url http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tacofleur.com%2Findex%2Fmethodology%2F+ http://www.tacofleur.com/index/methodology/ The reason I was going through the validation

Reading DTDs - WAS: RE: [WSG] document type does not allow element error

2004-01-29 Thread Mark Stanton
Here what the HTML 4.01 loose DTD (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd) says about anchors (or at least part of it): !ELEMENT A - - (%inline;)* -(A) -- anchor -- The first bit: !ELEMENT is the begin of an element declaration. The second bit: A is the element name. The bit in brackets is

RE: [WSG] document type does not allow element error

2004-01-29 Thread Taco Fleur
Cheers, it makes sense now. So the H1 tag is not allowed in the anchor. a name=t67h3FusionMX Methodology/h3/a I gues it should be h3a name=t67FusionMX Methodology/a/h3 yes yes yes, thats also why the funny hovering thing happens, because I have a:hover { blah blah } in my