Re: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-30 Thread Chuck
On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 11:57 PM, Miles Tillinger wrote: Finally a chance for my first attempt at a 100% CSS positioning site and besides using the deprecated align parameter for an input:image, the site validates ok! http://streetdaddy.gotdns.com/astute/index.html

Re: [WSG] CSS the Linux documentation project

2004-03-30 Thread Cameron Adams
Well ... you know, the webmonkey.com domain name will be up for grabs soon ... but it's all a bit hush-hush, so shhh ... ;o] -- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com --- russ weakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we have seen some amazing stuff come out of TheManinBlue - auto

[WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey everyone, I have just completed my own Tab layout style in CSS... Sorry I didnt really develop it for show - I didnt even plan it... Like most of my work, it just sort of happened... www.neester.com/tdir CSS: www.neester.com/tdir/water.css dont mind the content. what do you all think?

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread Tonico Strasser
Chris Stratford wrote: Hey everyone, I have just completed my own Tab layout style in CSS... Sorry I didnt really develop it for show - I didnt even plan it... Like most of my work, it just sort of happened... www.neester.com/tdir CSS: www.neester.com/tdir/water.css dont mind the content. what

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread russ weakley
Chris, The tabs looks really nice but Tonico does have a point. If you strip out all css styles, the links will appear in one line with very little between them - making them hard to distinguish on older browsers, browsers that have css switched off or text-based browsers.. Could you convert

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread Chris Stratford
I dont know what you mean by that? but yeah. the tabs are seperated only with a margin... but i tested it out on IECapture and ICapture and it looks great on them all so far! Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.neester.com Tonico Strasser wrote: Chris Stratford wrote: Hey

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread Tonico Strasser
Chris Stratford wrote: I dont know what you mean by that? Sorry, I'll try to be more verbose the next time. I see Russ has already explained it very well. Tonico -- Tonico Strasser ?:-) http://Tonico.FreeZope.org Contact_Tonico at Yahoo dot de Check out http://www.WebProducer.at

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread russ weakley
Keeping in mind that everyone has their own opinion on semantically correct markup, I'll give you my opinion. If they are reduced to their most basic level, navigation links are simply a list of links to other parts of the site. If we assume that some devices will see them without any css or

Re: [WSG] a QUICK HELPER - BRAIN IS DEAD AFTER 14 HOURS

2004-03-30 Thread Tim Lucas
Answered off list. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *

RE: [WSG] Some links...

2004-03-30 Thread Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN
Nice Templates, but my German is a little shaky at best -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of russ weakley Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 4:30 PM To: Web Standards Group Subject: [WSG] Some links... New css layout resources:

[WSG] IE doesn't like my positioning

2004-03-30 Thread Barbara Dozetos
Hello all -- This is probably a really simple thing, but I'm growing incapacitated by my frustration. Working on the layout with dummy text and it looks great in Firefox, but IE says ut-uh. Can someone take a look and tell me what stupid mistake I've made?

Re: [WSG] IE doesn't like my positioning

2004-03-30 Thread Jeremy Flint
I am going to guess it has something to do with the fact that you start your HTML document twice. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Barbara Dozetos wrote: Hello all -- This is probably a really simple thing, but I'm growing incapacitated by my frustration. Working on the layout with

[WSG] CSS issue in Opera (Win)

2004-03-30 Thread theGrafixGuy
Title: CSS issue in Opera (Win) Hi all, I am building Zen Cart, and thanks for the suggestion!!! I have noticed a problem though in the footer every cart I have seen using a footer with a border, the right border disappears on the footer and footer top. Here are 7 example sites and you

Re: [WSG] IE doesn't like my positioning

2004-03-30 Thread Robert Moser
Barbara Dozetos wrote: Hello all -- This is probably a really simple thing, but I'm growing incapacitated by my frustration. Working on the layout with dummy text and it looks great in Firefox, but IE says ut-uh. Can someone take a look and tell me what stupid mistake I've made?

Re: [WSG] IE doesn't like my positioning

2004-03-30 Thread Barbara Dozetos
No, you're just seeing the result of a server-side include there. IE doesn't have a problem with that, or none of our Web site would ever work. :) Is there something about right margins, maybe? The div that creates the far left column with the logos in it works fine with left, right and top

Re: [WSG] IE doesn't like my positioning

2004-03-30 Thread Barbara Dozetos
Thanks! Believe me, I know there's lots more to be dealt with. I inherited this site when I took the job and found that there had been no single person in charge of the site. We're definitely starting from scratch with a redesign, but we have to keep putting bandaids on the existing site

Re: [WSG] What do you think?

2004-03-30 Thread Luc
Good evening russ, It was foretold that on 30-3-2004 @ 23:43:07 GMT+1000 (which was 15:43:07 where I live) russ weakley would write: snipped a bit rw So, it should not be TOO hard to convert your nav system into a list. All rw you have to do is overcome the default behaviour of the list

[WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread P.H.Lauke
What you describe can only be achieved with javascript, if you want to avoid server calls and do it all in a single document...the page needs to keep track of which link has been pressed, for instance...something that CSS is not meant for... Patrick Patrick H.

Re: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread Bill McAvinney
What you describe can only be achieved with javascript Š However, you can show/hide text (and in some browsers images) using hover as shown here: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html and here: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html This isn't what you asked for,

[WSG] [OT] World Wide Web Conference

2004-03-30 Thread aaron . webb
Title: [OT] World Wide Web Conference Can anyone give me feedback on the World Wide Web Conference (www.www2004.org). I was thinking about going but would like to know if anyone has ever been to it. It was kind of hard to tell from the website everything that is going on and what it is like.

[WSG] Re: CSS not rendering in Mozilla

2004-03-30 Thread Universal Head
Thanks for the help on this. It's working ow, though I'm very confused as to why to tell you the truth. I asked my host about the MIME type and he said it was set to text/css (his server software is Webstar btw). Yet it still wouldn't work. It was only after he flushed the server cache that it

RE: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-30 Thread Miles Tillinger
On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 03:57 PM, Miles Tillinger wrote: I've managed to get it basically perfect in IE6, but there is small 2-3 pixel discrepancy in Mozilla and Opera (haven't had a chance to check on Safari yet *shudder*) down the left side of the right column. I'm

RE: [WSG] best method for columns inside a column

2004-03-30 Thread Miles Tillinger
Sorry no answer to the problem... But your services div has a margin left of 197 and your splitter one has a margin left of 200. The splitter seems to be pushing out as well in ie5.0, im not sure why that is. Probably the width of the feature or services div becomes smaller in ie5 and

Re: [WSG] How to do some things

2004-03-30 Thread Justin French
On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 06:21 AM, Vaska.WSG wrote: I'm trying to find a method for showing/hiding layers using CSS which doesn't use javascript if it's possible (?). Ideally, a layer (let's call it A) would automatically show when a page loads, then when a link is clicked it would

Re: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Patrick It can be done in CSS by toggling the display visibility with the a:hover and positioning. Leo On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 04:41 PM, P.H.Lauke wrote: What you describe can only be achieved with javascript, if you want to avoid server calls and do it all in a single document...the

RE: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Cowie
Leo wrote: It can be done in CSS by toggling the display visibility with the a:hover and positioning. Except is does not work in that browser. (you know the one I mean Internet Exploder ) There are a number of tricks you can do with hover and CSS for people using CSS2 compliant browsers

RE: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread P.H.Lauke
I beg to differ. If you re-read the thread starter, you'll see that the question was about clicking a link, and making one thing visible, clicking another, and another one becomes visible. You can't toggle things on/off via clicks, and then let the user move out of the element to do something

RE: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread P.H.Lauke
And seeing most people use IE, you might as well use javascript. Whether or not people use IE has nothing to do with whether or not they have javascript enabled or not. Available, yes...but not necessarily enabled. Patrick Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster

Re: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread scott parsons
Well it depends upon the exact behaviour desired, and the browsers you want to support, but something like this can be done with the :focus, :target or for win/ie the broken model of :active I wouldn't necessarily suggest that any of these methods are perfect, and would reccommend javascript

[WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Kear
For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. There are lots of colour development tools around, I know, but I got into doing my own because all the tools I have known about use

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-30 Thread Lindsay Evans
Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and I've put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. Snippety-snip http://afpwebworks.com/colourschemer/ is the address. (note the Australian COLOUR not the American COLOR)

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Cowie
Michael The right column, has a commnet This is text in the colour #XX Unfortunately #XX is the first colour entered, while it does display correctly as the second coloured entered. Nick * The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-30 Thread theGrafixGuy
Looks good! Though for sake of presentation style, I'd have it layout the results in a more formatted manner. The results page looks ad-hoc if you know what I mean. Also, if easily done, I'd like to see header examples as well as bold and italic - but that is just me. Brian -Original

[WSG] Layout 39% not 39%

2004-03-30 Thread Taco Fleur
Title: Message Does anyone know why on http://development.content3.com/test.htm the left column is not 39% in width? The column has width: 30%: margin-left: 9%: Now if you look at the HR tags above this column you'll see one with a width of 9% and one with a width of 39% and they seem