Re: [WSG] [XSL] apply-template on multiple modes?

2005-03-03 Thread Horst Gutmann
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: I'm pretty sure that only one template can be used at any given level. You can match elements and in in a separate template match attributes, but it always comes down to one template at one point. If you're trying to cascade the results of one to the next you'd need to

Re: [WSG] [XSL] apply-template on multiple modes?

2005-03-03 Thread Horst Gutmann
woric wrote: Are you sure you want use call-template? I have done a lot of XSLT and have only ever used call-template when calling a specific template, so your request sounds a little strange. Have you tried using apply-templates? I wanted to handle it exclusively in the XSLTs without the

Re: [WSG] opacity as a hover for photo gallery thumbnails

2005-03-03 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 3 Mar 2005, at 2:25 pm, Ben Curtis wrote: Safari/Konquerer supports -khtml-opacity:#.#; in the same way. Behold the march of progress! It appears that Safari now supports the standard opacity:#.#; call, even though it is not listed here:

Re: [WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-03 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I wrote this article thinking about the general laxism I can see all around me (about web coding). Its title is Writing with a markup language. What do you think about? - www.mibmagazine.it/article.php?id=51 Firstly, I do not understand Italian (other than a few words) and therefore do not

Re: [WSG] Logos explanations

2005-03-03 Thread Stevio
Also, does anyone know of a good web site that details clearly and concisely all the main things you should do to make a web site accessible? The best source is the WAI guidelines. Sites must comply with priority 1, should comply with priority 2 and may comply with priority 3:

Re: [WSG] Logos explanations

2005-03-03 Thread Alan Trick
I /hate /trying check the accessbility of my web site because many of how subjective it is. I get 'warned' for some of the silliest things that would be a barrier to accessiblilty by adding unnessisary code. I think the best way to promote accessiblity is through accountablilty between web

Re: [WSG] Mac (IE5.2 + Safari) users: please could you check...

2005-03-03 Thread John D Wells
Well I wish I could offer a solution, but right now all I can give you is as problem. Mac Safari looks great, but IE 5.2 looks pretty rough. The main header content stretches to the left overlapping the navigation, obstructing not only view but also clickability of the nav items (they're

Re: [WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-03 Thread pierofissore
That site is not mine: those guys (students) ask me to write an article for Mibmagazine. That's what I've done. My only joined to that magazine is the article. I've already tell them all your considerations about standards and documents' structure: ther're too busy now. This is my site:

[WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread Joey
Hi everyone, I want to create a function that will swap a style sheet as you resize the browser, for instance, I have two style sheets, one with settings for lower than800x600, then a style sheet for any resolution greater than800x600, but imagine if someone resized the browser from 1024x768 to

Re: [WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Hi everyone, I want to create a function that will swap a style sheet as you resize the browser, for instance, I have two style sheets, one with settings for lower than800x600, then a style sheet for any resolution greater than800x600, but imagine if someone resized the browser from 1024x768 to

Re: [WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread redux
Quoting Joey Is there anyway to do this using standard code? I could use onresize but this is invalid? Any suggestions? Unless I'm mistaken, resize is still accepted as a DOM event. http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Events-20001113/events.html No time to test, but you should be able

RE: [WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread Joey
Hi Patrick, Thanks, but when I tried to insert onresize into the body tag it told me it was invalid. Also if only CSS3 Media Queries were compatible, that suggestion was man July 2002!!! Anyway I don't want to get off-topic, does anybody has a solution for what I am trying to achieve? I had a

Re: [WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Thanks, but when I tried to insert onresize into the body tag it told me it was invalid. Sure, because inline JS is a technique of Ancient Netscapers. You should use DOM to attach events. I had a look at the A List Apart style switcher, but this is only if the user clicks on a link. It

RE: [WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Novitski
At 09:34 AM 3/3/2005, Joey wrote: Thanks, but when I tried to insert onresize into the body tag it told me it was invalid. Instead of doing this: body onresize=SwapStylesheets(); do this: script language=Javascript src=SwapStylesheets.js/script /head body and in

Re: [WSG] Mac (IE5.2 + Safari) users: please could you check...

2005-03-03 Thread Stuart Homfray
Hi John, Firstly, thanks for taking a look - it sounds like the same issues described by Barry Cranmer too (whom I should also thank publicly!) The main header content stretches to the left overlapping the navigation, obstructing not only view but also clickability of the nav items (they're

RE: [WSG] Onresize Javascript function? Any standard equivalent?

2005-03-03 Thread Joey
You are a genius, now I can just set max-width:1024px; :D Thanks matey! Ill give it a go, and see what happens. Kornel Lesiski Wrote: It does, with a little help: http://www.doxdesk.com/software/js/minmax.html ** The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-03 Thread Peter Ottery
hi there, Pete originally said:so I've designed myself a nice looking navigation scheme that displays visually whereabouts you are within a site.Now I just need to work out how to sort out the css :)http://c41.com.au/test/sample_nav.gif then Rob said:That's pretty. Pretty

Re: [WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-03 Thread Rob Mientjes
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:04:46 +1100, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see, the vertical lines are the catch am trying to think 'outside the square' to solve the prob but I cant see how you could do it without an id on every and li. I made Archive active in the first list to

[WSG] cutting and pasting content

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Drake
Hello everyone I know I've seen this mentioned before. When building a table-less site, IE sometimes chokes on selecting a block of text and copy/pasting it. I'm having trouble with one right now. It wants to copy the entire maincontent div. We WANT people to copy and paste some code snippets.

Re: [WSG] SEO, Semantics, and Web Standards

2005-03-03 Thread Jono
I've always been fascinated by the search results for for certain words on Google. Sometimes it is hard to tell - by viewing page source - why the top result is in fact the top result. For exampel, try searching for Fried Chicken on Google. Take a look at the top two results, and then take

Re: [WSG] cutting and pasting content

2005-03-03 Thread Jan Brasna
Are there any suggestions for allowing a block of content to be selected in IE and not having it try to select the entire page? Avoid abolute positioning in these areas. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The

RE: [WSG] cutting and pasting content

2005-03-03 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Thanks for the feedback. I didn't post the url because it is still on a test server. We are not using any absolute positioning and the content is not floated either. The maincontent div is floated left, if that means anything. The code tags have no style's associated with them. It's a good

Re: [WSG] cutting and pasting content

2005-03-03 Thread Jan Brasna
Hm, then I can't help further, this is the only situation I know about that was problematic in IE... :( -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Parent Selectors

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:08 PM 3/3/2005, RMW Web Publishing wrote: If I did that then the border [on the 'a'] appears a few pixels below the bottom of the image (looks wrong). To get it directly under the image I'd have to add margin-bottom: 0; to the 'a' which defeats the purpose of removing the underline. -

Re: [WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-03 Thread Jan Brasna
Before sending all of us to your article, maybe you could have stated that it is intended for Italian-speakers. Piero wrote it :) -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-03 Thread Ben Curtis
http://c41.com.au/test/sample_nav.gif ... any ideas, wacky or otherwise, appreciated. Always respect those wacky ideas. Here's one: What you would ideally have is an older-sibling, younger-sibling type selector. Then you could select all the li elements that are siblings and come before your

Re: [WSG] Writing with a markup language

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Novitski
I got a comprehensible English translation of the article from http://babelfish.altavista.com/ Just plug in the article's URL http://www.itgmarinoni.it/studenti/0405/gennaio/001.php and select Italian to English. Paul At 03:00 PM 3/3/2005, Richard Czeiger wrote: Sorry - I think Bert has a

[WSG] What about embeded video?

2005-03-03 Thread CHAUDHRY, Bhuvnesh
Hi List, I have a need to embed a video clipping on one of my web pages. I have a couple of questions about that: Quest A. When I try to validate the html page containing the video, I get following 2 errors: Error 1 Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML

Re: [WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-03 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Ben Curtis wrote: What you would ideally have is an older-sibling, younger-sibling type selector. Then you could select all the li elements that are siblings and come before your active element, and give them a vertical line background or border. Then give your active element the arrow. And

Re: [WSG] navigation using arrows for location

2005-03-03 Thread Ben Curtis
However, that would only work if the line always comes from the top of the list and then down to the active category. In the example, though, the line can come from below (see the line from the first to the second list). Right. I only saw the gif without anything going up. Hm. Wow. Tough nut.

[WSG] New Site Design

2005-03-03 Thread Zachary Hopkins
I'm thinking about redesigning my website. Which of these two designs do you like better? Current: http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/ New: http://69.174.31.29:100/newsite/ Thanks for your opinions! --Zachary Hopkins -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] Site redesign - complete

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Coonce-Ewing
Hello all, I'm new to the group. I've recently moved to WordPress and a brand new CSS and XHTML layout. I'm curious what people think. http://www.coonce-ewing.com Thanks, Chris -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

Re: [WSG] New Site Design

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Coonce-Ewing
Zachary, I like the newsite better but I think it's still missing some flair in the menu. I definitely don't like the large blue font in the content on the old version of the site. Chris www.coonce-ewing.com On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:40:35 -0500, Zachary Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm

RE: [WSG] New Site Design (Hopkins Programming)

2005-03-03 Thread Miles Burke
Wearing my design hat (eg: not looking at the code at all) I prefer the second one. Personally, I'd remove the 'Last Updated:' part of the footer. Why tell people when it hasn't been updated for weeks or months? Cheers, Miles. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] New Site Design-ADMIN THREAD CLOSED

2005-03-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
ADMIN - THREAD CLOSED This list is about web standards issues/information sharing/help. It is not design issues or opinions. There are other lists for that. If you have a problem with the closing of this thread, please do not reply to this post, email info@webboy.net to express your views.

Re: [WSG] Browser incompatibility - was Site redesign - complete

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Coonce-Ewing
Standards question... I've been having problems with browser differences. Viewed in Opera, I have background graphics in my header and footer, yet they don't show up in IE. I've already validated the XHTML and the CSS The site: http://www.coonce-ewing.com The CSS :

[WSG] TheNews.com.au

2005-03-03 Thread Steven Clark
I don't usually post to the list mainly because sometimes forums and lists get a bit personal. But I'm an avid reader of the daily digest (and apparently the only person to ever send these guys a christmas card which is odd). Today launched the new minimilist standards compliant

[WSG] Javascript events for object?

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Is there any way to know when the sound in an object has stopped playing? Because I'd like to play a subsequent sound file when the first one finishes. (it's for a webapp to assist reading, not a public site) From looking at http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_compinfo.html it doesn't look like

Re: [WSG] TheNews.com.au

2005-03-03 Thread David Laakso
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:46:07 +, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Anyway its a very good sign that views are changing when trends reach Tasmania (please no mean emails off list or on - its only a posting, thanks). Hmm, I think I get it-- no sense of humor...? Best, ~david -- de