Re: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-31 Thread Maarten Stolte
Hi, We've been using the YUI for a while. We wrote our own variant to support the proportions that our Art Director likes to use, which include the Golden Mean. Can you show any examples of sites using it? I'm wanting to show our front end designer some examples. thanks, Maarten

RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread michael.brockington
Strictly speaking, it is the browsers that are at fault - Safari/WebKit supports multiple background images, and FireFox/Camino et al. all support rounded corners via border-radius. In both cases this is (basically) according to the CSS spec. In many cases, I use border-radius: this is purely

Re: [WSG] html css review wanted

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Nick Cowie wrote: Got to build new template for work, so if you could look at: http://nickcowie.com/other/template/index.html ps does it work in IE7 and Opera for Mac (weird stuff happened but I need to upgrade)? footer in centred will everything else is grid based. All the

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
With the sliding doors style if your boxes have standard content such as a header followed by a paragraph then you can avoid adding any additional markup too. James Jeffery wrote: What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
That reminds me you can see what I was playing around with a couple of years ago on my cruddy broken web site. http://jixor.com/Stuff/Web/Panes James Jeffery wrote: What methods do you find best when creating rounded corners and which methods are the most supported? I have been using span

Re: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-31 Thread James Jeffery
Hmmm interesting i might take a look at it. I would love to know more about YUI Grids and the 'Golden Mean'. James On 10/31/07, Maarten Stolte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We've been using the YUI for a while. We wrote our own variant to support the proportions that our Art Director

Re: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
James Jeffery wrote: Hmmm interesting i might take a look at it. I would love to know more about YUI Grids and the 'Golden Mean'. James FWIW, the Golden Mean is a matter of philosophy. I believe the search string you seek is Golden Ratio. Best, ~dL --

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread James Ellis
Hi Paul Too true, I'll figure out some sort of caching - probably a combo of server and client - at the moment it is just me hitting the script during testing. Thanks James On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:07:45 am Paul Bennett wrote: Now instead of opening up inkscape it's just a call to a PHP

Re: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-31 Thread Lars Michael Sørensen
We're using YUI grids at www.dona.dk. I'll never use anything else again, if I can help it! /lmss 2007/10/31, Maarten Stolte [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, We've been using the YUI for a while. We wrote our own variant to support the proportions that our Art Director likes to use, which

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: I'm recreating a table-based site that I did a few years back, rebuilding it (hopefully) to web standards and making it as accessible as I can. http://sandbox.sharkattack.co.uk/novaRebuild/working.html Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check a

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Bruce
Personally, and perhaps I am too motivated towards simplicity, I use three images. One across the top, one in middle, one for bottom. I find JavaScript annoying as I watch the corners filling in after page loads. Four to six images using css are better, but still problematical for

RE: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread James Leslie
For fixed width boxes I use 3 images - 1 for the top, 1 for the middle and 1 for the bottom For totally fluid boxes I try to use tags inside the container (headings and paragraph tags can be useful here depending on content) and then add divs as appropriate James James Jeffery wrote: What

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
I can offer this simple method: http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_smart_corners.php I prefer spans over divs because divs do have semantic value as divisions whereas span are like puffs of air in that they serve as nothing more than a hook for styles, etc. I'd rather offer a span to accept

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Dave Woods
Hi Mike, I was considering using span's instead of div's for my example but was a little torn between the two as I'd usually use span's for their inline purpose in a block of text or for styling something within an inline element (when obviously a div would be invalid). I suppose in either case

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 31/10/07 (14:19) David said: Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check a week or so ago. It is, imo, a little daunting to arrive on it at 116.5 dpi-- the font start point (at which one might begin to scale the fonts) for the content text is very tiny; and, the value

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rick Lecoat wrote: [...] I'm not sure how to specify media types when most of my stylesheets are referenced by @import rules from inside a single stylesheet called import.css. You can leave the @import without a media type, and use @media wrappers around the entire set of relevant styles in

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: On 31/10/07 (14:19) David said: Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check a week or so ago. If I assign a media type to import.css, will that propogate down to the stylesheets that are imported within it? Rick, I see Georg Sortun has

Re: [WSG] html css review wanted

2007-10-31 Thread Nick Cowie
David wrote: All the disclaimers make it difficult to review. All I wanted to avoid with those disclaimers was: 1. You should of used shorthand properties to save space in layout.css (I know, it was the quick and dirty fix) 2. Felix to remind me that not everybody has a default font size of

Re: [WSG] html css review wanted

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Nick Cowie wrote: David wrote: All the disclaimers make it difficult to review. All I wanted to avoid with those disclaimers was: 1. You should of used shorthand properties to save space in layout.css (I know, it was the quick and dirty fix) 2. Felix to remind me that not everybody

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
Mike check out the example I posted earlier and you can see how it can be done without all the extra markup. Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: I can offer this simple method: http://mikecherim.com/experiments/css_smart_corners.php I prefer spans over divs because divs do have semantic value as

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
No worries, I use threaded view in my mail client so its easy for me to backtrack. http://jixor.com/Stuff/Web/Panes Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Jixor - Stephen I wrote: Mike check out the example I posted earlier and you can see how it can be done without all the extra markup. I

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Jixor - Stephen I wrote: Mike check out the example I posted earlier and you can see how it can be done without all the extra markup. I need a link please. Mike *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Rounded Courners .... Your Take

2007-10-31 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Jixor - Stephen I wrote: http://jixor.com/Stuff/Web/Panes Thanks. That's clever and simple. Cheers. Mike *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Uribe
Hi there, I have some questions for an assignment that I can't figure out. If anyone could be of assistance that would be much appreciated. 1)Which instruction will change the background colour of an element? A document.getElementById(t).backgroundColor = yellow B

[WSG] Javascript Help

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Uribe
Hi there, If anyone can help with the following questions, that would be greatly appreciated 1) Which are the preferred methods to use when Javascript has been disabled A noscript/noscript b a href=# onCick=myFunction();Show Page/a ca href=page1.htmShow Page/a d a href=page1.htm

RE: [WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi there, I have some questions for an assignment that I can't figure out. If anyone could be of assistance that would be much appreciated. How many credits do we get for the correct answers? ;-) *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Breton Slivka
Do you have any specific questions, or do you just want us to do your homework for you? -Breton. On 11/1/07, Alexander Uribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I have some questions for an assignment that I can't figure out. If anyone could be of assistance that would be much appreciated.

Re: [WSG] Javascript Help

2007-10-31 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Alexander Uribe wrote: If anyone can help with the following questions, that would be greatly appreciated do your own homework. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] Javascript Help

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Uribe
It was just a few questions that i was unsure of. Dont bother Cheers, _ Your Future Starts Here. Dream it? Then be it! Find it at www.seek.com.au

RE: [WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Frank Palinkas
Alexander, What good will it do you if the correct answers are supplied and you have absolutely no concept as to why they are correct? Time to do some research, study, and experimentation, like everyone else. Kind regards, Frank From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I don't like giving out answers to homework questions, but here are some hints: 1) Which attribute is used for setting the background (in HTML)? Which property is used to set a background color with CSS (which is what style uses)? 2) Only one of those is correct. Check online for the proper

[WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Uribe
Thanks for the reply. I took everyones advice and found out the answers myself. Javascript always seems to be quite daunting for me, but found out that it doesn't have to be at all. Apologies for the email. _ Your Future