Re: [WSG] footer placement

2005-01-18 Thread Hugh Todd
works after a float.) Have you looked at Russ Weakley's Floatutorial? Take a look at the tutorials at the bottom of this page. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/ HTH -Hugh Todd A friend began a redesign using traditional 'lay it out in Photoshop and slice it up into tables' design. As a 'new

Re: [WSG] The Holy Grail ... CSS Liquid Three-Column Layout

2004-12-16 Thread Hugh Todd
Anyone come up with, or implemented, a 3-column layout of this sort in which the left and right columns also stretch as a percentage of the page width? -Hugh Todd I think I may have found the Holy Grail that 3-column css liquid layout that allows for different colors and/or backgrounds

Re: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry

2004-12-16 Thread Hugh Todd
Russ, I see it beautifully in Safari, but in Firefox only a blue background and tiny Times Roman text. What the...? -Hugh Todd http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/ cssocean/zenoc ean.css Make sure you look in a good browser and scroll down

Re: [WSG] Another amazing css zen garden entry

2004-12-16 Thread Hugh Todd
OK, Maybe I shouldn't have installed the final version of Firefox without deleting earlier versions and/or support files. You've prompted me to delete Firefox's Application Support. Revisiting the site... I see the crab! I see it all! And the blue background is more seamless than in the

Re: [WSG] Standards Macromedia Contribute

2004-12-15 Thread Hugh Todd
On the Mac, Contribute uses the same (system-level) rendering engine as Safari, which means you should not get any nasty surprises with the layout. However, your client would have to have a Mac. :) -Hugh Todd On 16/12/2004, at 3:04 AM, david wrote: Macromedia's Contribute uses the same page

Re: [WSG] Standards Macromedia Contribute

2004-12-15 Thread Hugh Todd
Kornel, Yes, I'm sure. http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/productinfo/features/ static_tour/mac/ On the Mac, Contribute uses the same (system-level) rendering engine as Safari, which means you should not get any nasty surprises with the layout. Are you sure? Some time ago there

Re: [WSG] Standards Macromedia Contribute

2004-12-15 Thread Hugh Todd
Kornel, Opera is the only browser I know that supports replacing elements with generated content and positioning of generated content. Safari supports this: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2003_12.html#004377 (see note 18). Dave Hyatt is the development leader on Safari. :) Hugh

Re: [WSG] site review please (esigma)

2004-12-03 Thread Hugh Todd
. Get rid of the portletcontainer class and div and use #sidebar-b ul instead. You get my drift? Use the cascading property of stylesheets as much as you can. All the best. -Hugh Todd this is my first post to the list after lurking for a bit now. i've put on my extra thick skin today

Re: [WSG] Is IE/Mac still messing up my page?

2004-12-02 Thread Hugh Todd
Seona, Looks fine in IE 5.2.3 here. Your fix must have worked. BTW, in both IE and Safari (so I presume in everything) there's a tiny glitch in the curve where the grey and white meet, above and below the home link. All the best. -Hugh Todd PS The links at the bottom of the main column look

Re: [WSG] Some links for light reading (17/11/04)

2004-11-17 Thread Hugh Todd
Looks great in a Panther version of Safari, but in Safari 1 it falls apart. The navigation in particular. I guess partly because it relies entirely on CSS for the dropdown menus, providing a separate stylesheet link and Javascript for IE PC. -Hugh Todd EDS goes full CSS: http://www.eds.com

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Hugh Todd
-LA. In this case, users will still need to have installed players able to recognise MPEG-4 files, and as far as I know these are Real and QuickTime only on PCs and Macs. -Hugh Todd Hugh Todd wrote: I had a listen Frank Casanova's talk, given recently at the CTIA Wireless IT Entertainment

Re: [WSG] video standards?

2004-11-16 Thread Hugh Todd
is an approach that appeals to me, as someone committed to web standards. If you can avoid being penned into a solution, particular when authoring video, there are many solutions that provide the provision of that video on the web. Indeed, though some are more standard than others. :) -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Site check please - launched it finally!

2004-11-14 Thread Hugh Todd
suggestion of Hugh Todd and changed it. ** 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] site layout problems, specifically in Mac IE

2004-10-21 Thread Hugh Todd
.) -Hugh Todd I have downloaded Firefox and have started from scratch. The page is at www.pacifichomeloans.com.au and css at www.pacifichomeloans.com.au/styleshome.css The page is looking fine in Firefox (apart from my #maintitle not starting at the top of the page) and IE on Windows. However I did

Re: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-20 Thread Hugh Todd
. -Hugh Todd I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website with a plenty of functionalities and different style pages. I know that this is a hard question, but some people may have a different poit of view about an accetable size for loading a .css file.   30kb , for example

Re: [WSG] Off Topic - Usability question for WSG members

2004-10-17 Thread Hugh Todd
(and in many others) your text looks really tiny in my email program, which affects legibility. :) Hugh Todd What I'd like to know is your personal opinion of what you think impacts the user experience both positively and negatively. ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] header alignment working in everything but safari

2004-10-13 Thread Hugh Todd
, or image replacement) for your Beachhouse logo thingy. -Hugh Todd On 14/10/2004, at 2:50 PM, Ian Main wrote: I've spent too long trying to get my head around this. http://www.e-lusion.com/design/beachhouse/ http://www.e-lusion.com/design/beachhouse/screen.css Safari error http://e-lusion.com

Re: [WSG] Transparent Background on a list item

2004-10-13 Thread Hugh Todd
Jackie, The height didn't change the transparency. It revealed more of your #nav1's background image. Remember, a float (unless cleared) will happily extend beyond the borders of its container. Except in IE PC, but that is a bug. So if you want your #nav1's background to resize in proportion

Re: [WSG] Mac Tools Kit for Web Standards Developer

2004-10-08 Thread Hugh Todd
://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ 4) jEdit. Cross-platform, Java-based. http://www.jedit.org/ 5) TextWrangler. Cut-down BBEdit from the same source. 4) TextMate. Just released. http://www.macromates.com/ 5) Smultron. http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ Hope this helps. -Hugh Todd I'm wondering what tools Mac developers

[WSG] Semantic status of images in headers

2004-10-04 Thread Hugh Todd
thought it conceivable that an alt tag for an image inside an h tag could inherit status from its position. But it doesn't does it? Can anyone confirm what I told him? Example: h2img src=foo.jpg alt=A great big foo. width=40px height=40px //h2 -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Left and right: inline content...

2004-10-04 Thread Hugh Todd
Joshua, Try putting the ABN in a p tag, giving it a width (in ems) and floating it left. You will also need to give your ul a width. It's easier to see what's going on if you give your elements background colours (temporarily). -Hugh Todd Hi all. I'm trying to do something which I know

Re: [WSG] Fluid Horizontal Lists

2004-10-04 Thread Hugh Todd
them, you will have to reduce your width amount to something less than 20%. And, because min-width doesn't work in IE, your navigation bar will wrap when window size is reduced too far. -Hugh Todd Ive gotta find some solution or ill have to revert back to table cells

[WSG] Eric Myer interviewed for Apple Pro website

2004-10-04 Thread Hugh Todd
FYI http://www.apple.com/pro/words/meyer/ -Hugh Todd ** 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] Miles to go before I sleep....

2004-09-15 Thread Hugh Todd
Ted, This sort of problem is often fixed by zeroing the margins on the text... in this case, perhaps, on the ul. -Hugh Todd Here's my first question. In firefox win it looks fine. In IE, I have about 10-15px margin between the topnav and the content div. I've played with the margin

Re: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-10 Thread Hugh Todd
server, it is free (and open source). http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/ (Apple's version of it comes with Apple servers, which are proprietory, of course.) Hope this helps! -Hugh Todd ** The discussion list for http

[WSG] Help with simple menu

2004-09-09 Thread Hugh Todd
. In Firefox the clear is ignored! What have I missed I've coloured the links with a gold background for clarity. http://www.fortyfivedegrees.com/childrenfirst/access/ css at http://www.fortyfivedegrees.com/childrenfirst/styles/cf2.css Any help greatly appreciated. -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Help with simple menu

2004-09-09 Thread Hugh Todd
for some reason causes IE 5 PC to understand the left padding. And Jake provided the final (bizarre) piece in the puzzle. Is this a bug in Mozilla? -Hugh Todd Clearing in the li, but leaving the float in the a seems to fix the problem. Jake Quoting Hugh Todd: I wanted a workaround for the refusal

Re: [WSG] Hugh Todd's 45 degrees

2004-09-09 Thread Hugh Todd
Steven, I was just browsing the digest and have noticed your questions, and thought I'd mention the problem I've noticed. I'm using IE6 on WinXP and its only a cursory observatioin but definately affects site usability. I am using resolution 1024 width. When I clicked your icon for enlarging

Re: [WSG] accessible audio-visual content

2004-09-07 Thread Hugh Todd
info, see the QuickTime Developers page on the Apple site. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/ (in particular the Text Tracks tutorial) -Hugh Todd The only tool you would need for this would be QuickTime Pro, available (as a key to unlock its powers) online from Apple. So

[WSG] Help! Safari wide background image bug?

2004-09-07 Thread Hugh Todd
, is that the *background is pushing the div wider*. What the...? Looks fine in Firefox and Safari. Anyone else seen this/know what to do to fix it? Yeek! -Hugh Todd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04

Re: [WSG] Help! Safari wide background image bug?

2004-09-07 Thread Hugh Todd
Lea, i see the same effect in both firefox and safari - a white strip to the left of the blue background? in both Firefox and in safari. Sorry, no, that's not where the problem is. I placed the left edge of the blue background arbitrarily, just to display the issue, so you'll have to excuse the

[WSG] Help with a layout - centered navigation

2004-09-06 Thread Hugh Todd
the problem may lie and where I might find a fix? Page here: http://homepage.mac.com/hughtodd/access/ CSS here: http://homepage.mac.com/hughtodd/styles/cf.css Many thanks! Hugh Todd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud

Re: [WSG] web essentials briefing/ westciv CSS Guide

2004-09-03 Thread Hugh Todd
Andy, If you're based in Oz however you'd be a fool to miss it. Why, though? The calibre of the people looks fantastic, but would it be worth spending $750 to see them? I really would love to go if I was convinced that it would advance my web building knowledge hugely, more than (say) this

Re: [WSG] Mac IE 5.2

2004-09-02 Thread Hugh Todd
Philippe Wittenbergh. Hope this helps. (If this message looks familiar, it's a cut and paste from a posting some time ago.) All the best with it. -Hugh Todd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web

Re: [WSG] Position absolute and centering

2004-08-31 Thread Hugh Todd
, and wrapping the header and navigation div in another div. Again, thanks to all. So many ways to skin the proverbial cat, but I needed help to see them. Now for the sub-menu... -Hugh Todd ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

[WSG] Position absolute and centering

2004-08-30 Thread Hugh Todd
Can anyone elucidate this conundrum? I'm wanting to centre a horizontal navigation bar at the bottom of my header block, but I fear this is not possible. (In case anyone wonders why I would want to do this, I want it to expand upwards rather than downwards if the text is resized.) One of the

Re: [WSG] ultimate noob question.... is table-less layout meaning literally?

2004-08-16 Thread Hugh Todd
. That's the vision, anyway. Neerav and others have posted some inspirational links demonstrating the power of pure CSS to create some extraordinary layouts. -Hugh Todd Thing I have trouble getting my head round is the term table-less layout

Re: [WSG] Are wireframes necessary when using web standards?

2004-08-05 Thread Hugh Todd
Pardon my ignorance, but what are 'wireframes'? I prefer building prototypes than hagging over wireframes. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to

[WSG] Apple's accessibility moves

2004-08-04 Thread Hugh Todd
by interested users, and has been wired up to Mail, Safari and the Address book (if I can remember correctly). (I've just got to figure out how to use it well enough to test on web pages!) http://developer.apple.com/accessibility/universalaccess.html -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Bottom Margin on IE/Mac

2004-07-29 Thread Hugh Todd
Lucian, You could try installing your faux columns inside a containing div rather than in the body. That way they would stretch according to the content, and you would not have to cover them up with a footer at the base of the browser window. -Hugh Todd I'm using Dan Cedarholm's faux column's

Re: [WSG] Strange padding in IE?

2004-07-20 Thread Hugh Todd
James, Looks like the 3-pixel text jog. http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html -Hugh Todd The layout problem occurs in IE (fine in mozilla). I want to keep the text flowing down the page in a straight line, but in IE when the text passes the end of the blue box, it moves

Re: [WSG] Blue Moon -- Need help on IE5 Mac Floating

2004-07-20 Thread Hugh Todd
for #content1 in both stylesheets for this to work for me. For more info, see http://www.macedition.com/cb/ie5macbugs/#floatclearbug , as well as the entry it links to from Philippe Wittenbergh. -Hugh Todd This page: http://www.webpublishing.com.au/dev/dsto/project.htm works fine in everything (Win IE 5

[WSG] Review of Dan Cederholm's book

2004-07-13 Thread Hugh Todd
There's a review of Dan Cederholms book, Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, on Todd Dominey's blog. http://www.whatdoiknow.org/ -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: Future.....(was: Re: [WSG] iFrames vs Scrolling Divs)

2004-07-08 Thread Hugh Todd
and sound contributions, seems to me to deliver a good result. It's not too dissimilar to open source software. Proposals for improvements, peer discussion, and the best implementation wins. -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http

Re: Future.....(was: Re: [WSG] iFrames vs Scrolling Divs)

2004-07-08 Thread Hugh Todd
Brian, Just to deny that I wrote this. The attribution belongs to Scott Barnes, I think. My belief is that the W3C is much more accountable than Scott seems to imagine. -Hugh (Brian Cummiskey wrote: Hugh Todd wrote: I mean, I'm sure the people in the w3c gang are really smart monkeys, but like

Re: Future.....(was: Re: [WSG] iFrames vs Scrolling Divs)

2004-07-08 Thread Hugh Todd
be hard put to it to do more than what organisations like this group are doing, in encouraging implementation and, for some, involvement in standards creation. -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: Future.....(was: Re: [WSG] iFrames vs Scrolling Divs)

2004-07-07 Thread Hugh Todd
-end hacks, with as elegant solutions as can be devised. What more could you want? Down with proprietory solutions, I say! -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] Please use plain text in emails

2004-07-04 Thread Hugh Todd
We've had many, many calls for emails to this list to be posted in plain text rather than HTML or rich text. May I reiterate the call? A fair number of recent emails have shown up in my email client with tiny, hard-to-read text. So, please use plain text in emails if you want to be read. -Hugh

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac-friendly drop down menus

2004-06-27 Thread Hugh Todd
Kay, Back in March, Kristen Morgan posted a link to the UDM website. The canned solution they have come up with looks expensive, and it's not lean and mean, but it seems to solve the compatibility issues pretty much. http://www.udm4.com/ -Hugh Todd The original Suckerfish menus *do* work

Re: [WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-25 Thread Hugh Todd
identically on Safari (1.2) and IE 5.2.3 Mac. -Hugh Todd The results look exactly the same in IE6, Mozilla 1.5 and Opera 7.23 I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Apple Mac browsers !! * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Hugh Todd
concerned with the accessibility of websites. (That said, there seems to be no completely cross-platform/browser way of achieving semantically correct cascading navigation.) -Hugh Todd Here is a link to the html page: http://sonze.com/isl/temp/ Here is a link to the css page: http://sonze.com/isl

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Hugh Todd
what it does. All the best! You're going well! -Hugh Todd PS A cheap PC with Win 2000 or WinXP on it sounds like a great idea. Someone has put together a package that installs IE5, 5.5 6 on the same machine -- an invaluable service. (Only works on the OSs I mention

Re: [WSG] Very odd behaviour on IE5 Mac. Any ideas?

2004-06-15 Thread Hugh Todd
, or bits of it? Do you still get the same effect? (I think I'd be tempted to scrap what's there and come at it afresh!) -Hugh Todd PS I'm not as dismissive of IE 5 as James is, much as it now irritates me. For its time it was a trailblazer in standards implementation, and it's still not bad

Re: [WSG] Request check - redesign to accessibility standards

2004-06-14 Thread Hugh Todd
. Tidy up your footer html and css to get rid of extra classes and nbsps, and remove your border=0 stuff. (Why not set one font size for all of your footer info?) But as I say, you're going well! And as time goes on you'll refine your skills. All the best -Hugh Todd PS The form may need

Re: [WSG] Vertical Son of Suckerfish - Practical implementation

2004-06-06 Thread Hugh Todd
Neerav, Doesn't look good in Safari 1.0, Neerav. (Submenus appear at the top of the viewport.) Fine in Safari 1.2. No submenus in IE 5.2.3 Mac. Is this acceptable to your client? -Hugh Todd Vertical Son of Suckerfish - Practical implementation at http://www.rci.com.au What a difference

Re: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions

2004-06-06 Thread Hugh Todd
that the majority stays locked into its proprietary world. The most compliant browsers, including the default one, are found on the Mac. As this list has so often said, develop first for standards, and then figure out what needs to be done to the code to address IE shortcomings. Just my 2c. -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Standards compliant content management system.

2004-05-31 Thread Hugh Todd
Ned, Have you tried Macromedia's Contribute? Good for static pages, with a web browser metaphor. -Hugh Todd Has anyone come up with some solutions for helping the client maintain their own content while still retaining standards compliance

Re: [WSG] Comment and site check

2004-05-28 Thread Hugh Todd
Jaime, I was thinking that the logo image actually has a semantic meaning (which can be represented by an alt tag). Changing the version of the logo would be a simple matter of replacing your image file with one of the same name. But your using an h1 probably makes more semantic sense in the

Re: [WSG] Comment and site check

2004-05-27 Thread Hugh Todd
Jaime, Displays beautifully on Safari 1.2 and Mac IE 5.2.3. Except that the Joons Family crest thing disappears in IE 5 -- for some reason the image replacement technique isn't working. Why not use an actual image? -Hugh Todd Could you do a check on your browser for this project of mine? Test

Re: [WSG] Problems in Mac IE 5.2

2004-05-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Kim, What would happen if you set your navcontainer to clear: left instead of clear: both? -Hugh Todd Could someone please tell me if I need some special hack for Mac IE or if there is a solution at all?   * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] Problems in Mac IE 5.2

2004-05-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Kim, I've implemented Kay's suggestion. It involves taking out your other clears, which are redundant: http://www.fortyfivedegrees.com/test/ -Hugh If I follows Kay's suggestion corretly then it doesn't work on Mac. It works just fine on PC. *

[WSG] Testing in multiple versions of Safari

2004-05-21 Thread Hugh Todd
, as in this case. -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help *

[WSG] Testing in multiple versions of Safari

2004-05-21 Thread Hugh Todd
doing where relevant, as in this sort of case. -Hugh Todd * 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] height problem

2004-05-19 Thread Hugh Todd
and put it in the background of the element behind it. Here's an article that explains what to do: http://alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ All the best! -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

Re: [WSG] And now for something completely different :-)

2004-05-19 Thread Hugh Todd
John, Anyone at Apple reading this? I'd imagine that if the web engine is already installed on Windows computers with iTunes (like all HP machines from June this year), all that would be needed would be a tiny download of a Safari GUI. (I imagine this because I'm not a programmer!) -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] height problem

2004-05-19 Thread Hugh Todd
Kim, Jason's solution is an excellent one. I regretted my dogmatic statement (that you should not try) the moment I saw it. The background-image solution is better for a more complex background graphic for your column. -Hugh Great article, thank you. The problem the problem is already solved

Re: [WSG] [OT] UniversalHead blog

2004-05-18 Thread Hugh Todd
Pete, Can you modify blog templates (on Blogger) to your heart's content? -Hugh No doubt you all know about the web standards friendly relaunch of Blogger: http://www.blogger.com - which has now made the whole set up process so simple I thought I'd finally launch a blog like everybody else.

Re: [WSG] XHTML v HTML (also a question about GoLive)

2004-05-18 Thread Hugh Todd
templates for them to use. Hope this helps. -Hugh Todd A potential client asked me: ...will I be able to make modifications myself using a program such as Adobe Golive which creates html pages? It's the second half of the question with which I'm having a problem since I have no experience

Re: [WSG] APC magazine anti standards article

2004-05-14 Thread Hugh Todd
John, http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/A569C81864DC4F1BCA256E5F001A59C5 (posted here on April 16 by Iparuan Martinez) -Hugh Todd anyone got a link to or can send me the text of that recent anti standards article mentioned here at APC

[WSG] ACA website revisited

2004-05-14 Thread Hugh Todd
have a strange way of disappearing on rollover in that browser. (Sigh). http://www.fortyfivedegrees.com/aca/ (cf http://www.aca.gov.au/ ) -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] Launched my third xhtml site!!

2004-05-13 Thread Hugh Todd
that's the wrong colour or doesn't look well-crafted, you can point them to the agreed brief and ask them if it meets it. -Hugh Todd (OK, this post was OT, but as a sop to web standards I'll say that the beauty of a web standards approach is that any HTML can be crafted via css to achieve your

Re: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-13 Thread Hugh Todd
-- the tighter the better, to avoid misunderstandings) and from there you can web-standardise it into code. -Hugh Todd I am trying to see if I can learn to improve the process somehow to get better results faster (or is it less slow?) So I was hoping I'd find out you 'proper' designers have a trick other

Re: [WSG] Launched my third xhtml site!!

2004-05-12 Thread Hugh Todd
confusing (to me) that the shopping cart icons appear on pages that don't seem to relate to ordering. Would it be best either to confine them to a set of logical pages or have them appear (visibility: visible;) only when an ordering process has been undertaken? All the best -Hugh Todd (Hope the WSG

Re: [WSG] csscreator.com multimenu

2004-05-09 Thread Hugh Todd
Neerav, Safari 1 and IE 5 account for most Mac users at this point, I would think. You would want to make sure that the appearance of the menu degrades gracefully, if you decide to go this way. Fails in: NN4, Opera 6.05 on Windows. Safari 1.0, IE5.2 on Mac Im happy enough with that

Re: [WSG] marquee text

2004-04-21 Thread Hugh Todd
Justin French wrote: I also assume that you mean a horizontal block with a line of text that moves from left to right, yes? Whoops. That sort of scrolling text. Of course. Please ignore my post. -Hugh * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Constructive Criticism please

2004-04-15 Thread Hugh Todd
theGrafixGuy said, You do not need the ; after the last attribute in each style I know this is technically true (browsers will accept it) but I understood that good coding practice is to put the semicolon even after the last attribute. Anyone else know anything about this? -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] Browser restrictions

2004-03-25 Thread Hugh Todd
Darian, Rule of thumb: forget about the version 4 browsers, unless you want to provide something like limited font tags. Even then there are inheritance problems, but the use of these browsers is so limited now (except, as noted by others, in some corporate in-house environments... Optus, for

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Hugh Todd
Jaime, Good on you for persevering. It sounds as thought the bug you are encountering is one for which you provided a link... the inherited clear bug. The obvious (but not necessarily easy) fix is to avoid using clear when creating parent elements. -Hugh Todd The style is horribly broken

Re: [WSG] Firefox 0.8 bug?

2004-03-24 Thread Hugh Todd
Justin, Looks fine on OS X. Don't know why there should be a difference, because afaik it's the same rendering engine. -Hugh Is there a work-around, or do we just wait for the next release, and hope that people don't stick with 0.8 for ever?

Re: [WSG] APC Article on Web Standards

2004-03-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Cameron Adams wrote: Has anyone read the opinion article in APC Magazine regarding Web Standards? (I haven't) Now I have. Page 26 (for Aussies and Kiwis on the list). Guy by the name of David Emberton in the Opinion section. He's touted as a professional web developer, and has written a couple

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac Doosey

2004-03-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Pete, You might be better to start again. The author is fooling around with background images for the menu, making the text disappear with a span. Farhner image replacement? Better to give that the boot. -Hugh PS No idea why IE Mac isn't seeing the images. I'm not well versed in

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac Doosey

2004-03-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Pete, Try taking out all the overflow: hidden and see what happens. -Hugh Curses, still no luck! No absolute positioning in this case. Help me obiwan! I've run out of ideas! * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] iCapture + Drop down menu

2004-03-21 Thread Hugh Todd
. (No idea why.) If instead you set its position to right: 5px; (removing width), it may work better: #highlinks { background-color: transparent; position: absolute; top: -5px; right: 5px; height: 20px; } Hope this is of use. -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] iCapture + Drop down menu

2004-03-21 Thread Hugh Todd
Maureen, The drop-down menu does have a problem on IE5.3 Mac. I get a Microsoft JScript error message: Line: 196 Char: 2 Error: Invalid procedure call or argument. This error message is triggered when rolling the cursor over the menu. IE Mac also treats your picture badly, running its frame

Re: [WSG] slightly OT web page analyser service

2004-03-21 Thread Hugh Todd
Nor is the fact that stylesheets (and images, for that matter) are cached. You're only comparing a first hit on one page. One of the beauties of CSS is that once you're past that first page, and into other pages on the site, you're not going to be downloading table code again and again and

Re: [WSG] Opera market share

2004-03-20 Thread Hugh Todd
Justin, Russ posted a link to a page a while back with links to all the preview versions: http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001178.php -Hugh Where can I get the Opera 7.5 Beta? Couldn't see an obvious link on the site... * The discussion

[WSG] Opera market share

2004-03-19 Thread Hugh Todd
just seen for myself with the new beta... that Opera *by default* identifies as Internet Explorer! Could there be any more self-effacing behaviour?? So we really have no idea how important it is to code for Opera. -Hugh Todd * The discussion

Re: [WSG] Opera market share

2004-03-19 Thread Hugh Todd
Russ, Quite right. I'm afraid I didn't put the question very well. All I was trying to get at was an idea of whether it was worth putting in the work to fix any Opera idiosyncracies, if there still are any. That said, my guess would be that while the aim is to code in a standards-compliant

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Hugh Todd
? (I'm only talking about MX 2004.) -Hugh Todd I'm not sure why this should be so, because I have an idea the rendering engine is now Opera. Just for the record Hugh, Dreamweaver uses it's own custom rendering engine. Macromedia Contribute uses Opera's rendering engine on the Macintosh, which

Re: [WSG] W3C standards in Denmark

2004-03-16 Thread Hugh Todd
on the cost benefits for clients commissioning new sites or upgrades to old sites. I'd be happy to improve it if anyone spots glaring omissions or errors. -Hugh Todd Soren Johannessen of Denmark undertook the task of surveying how many governmental, national, municipal authorities follow the W3C

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-14 Thread Hugh Todd
of information. All the best! -Hugh Todd Im sorry, Peter, but I hate your new site. I LOATHE it. Oh, not because you did a rotten job in my opinion. On the contrary, its so good it reminds me of my own shortcomings in the artistic/design department

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-09 Thread Hugh Todd
' partners. In some relationships, both partners are fleas. To all the 'dogs' on this list, a big 'thank you'! -Hugh Todd And I think this needs to be a place where we both learn to understand the big picture and wrestle with the nitty gritty

Re: [WSG] Open critique?

2004-03-06 Thread Hugh Todd
and the accessible? Not always easily resolved. One thing I wanted to ask you about was why you chose to use graphic headers in the right hand boxes. Your large type in the left hand coloured boxes is very successful. -Hugh Todd Again, thanks for the feedback! I'm really enjoying the discussions

Re: [WSG] Semantic vs Accessibile markup

2004-03-04 Thread Hugh Todd
Tonico, I need to support IE/Mac, so what would you recommend me to do? Did you have a look at this one, posted by Manuel González Noriega? It seems to work in IE 5 Mac, for whatever reason: http://kalsey.com/tools/csstabs/index.php?section=2 -Hugh

Re: [WSG] Need CSS assistance

2004-02-28 Thread Hugh Todd
. -Hugh Todd I am having a terrible time trying to get three columns of different length content to all be the same height. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Mac IE Fix Sites

2004-02-27 Thread Hugh Todd
/#floatclearbug -Hugh Todd And here's another reference resource: http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Issues with min-height?

2004-02-19 Thread Hugh Todd
oddly in Safari 1.2, by the way. All the best! -Hugh Todd I'm just learning CSS and I'm have a bit of trouble with min-height and tableless layouts. I want the content and the sidebar to stretch down all the way to the bottom of the screen. It kind of looks odd when the content/sidebar's background

Re: [WSG] WSG/NMUG Meeting (Sydney) this Monday, 23 Feb

2004-02-19 Thread Hugh Todd
On 20/02/2004, at 2:01 PM, Ben Bishop wrote: 7:00pm Welcome: Ed Sullivan Ed Sullivan is into web standards? Hey, does this mean they're going to be as big as Elvis? -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Site check

2004-02-19 Thread Hugh Todd
. In what looks like Times Bold 9px, black. Have you considered using real text inside your header tabs? Using the sliding doors approach on http://www.alistapart.com ? It would mean that the text inside the tabs could be resized and remain accessible. All the best. -Hugh Todd Was wondering

Re: [WSG] Site check

2004-02-19 Thread Hugh Todd
further but there is the commercial reality of the client. How do others feel about these issues - particularly with regard the CSS rollovers. -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

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