Re: [WSG] lazyweb://schema.agnostic.URLs

2010-11-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 10 November 2010 19:22, Russ Weakley r...@maxdesign.com.au wrote: Not quite: http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/02/10/5a-missing-schema-double-download/ Yikes! It all seemed so easy... suspiciously easy! :) That last post from a Microsoft guy was interesting though. He says

Re: [WSG] CSS Expandable Menu

2010-06-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Grant, You're meaning the sort of tree-menu arrangements that have a little plus next to items with children, and clicking the plus makes the children appear and push the other elements further down, right? I don't believe what you're looking for is possible, as that sort of hierarchical menu

Re: [WSG] using skip links

2009-05-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
2009/5/13 Ben Lau bensan...@gmail.com Thanks Jon. It's not really a promotion, but more like a related sub content. Ideally I'd like it to be placed after the actual content, but the design had to be this way. Don't forget, just because the design says something has to be in a certain place

Re: [WSG] Floating a sub-list level with it's parent list

2009-03-08 Thread Seona Bellamy
2009/3/6 Robert Turner r...@flexadata.com Why not make the entire nav element (mainNav) positioned absolute? I'd probably use a div to contain the parent ul (if you are not already doing this). I'd start with something like: .mainNav { /* nav at top right of screen */ position:

[WSG] Floating a sub-list level with it's parent list

2009-03-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm in a bit of a bind here. I have a nested list that I have no control over - it's coming out of the CMS with this hierarchy and I can't change that. Here is an example of the unstyled list: - Main Navigation --- Page 1 --- Page 2 --- Page 3 --- Subscriber Modules - Module 1 -

Re: [WSG] Validating (X)HTML + ARIA

2009-01-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
2009/1/21 Anthony Ziebell anth...@fatpublisher.com.au: Someone mentioned using JavaScript to implement ARIA parameters. This is a good idea... but just how accessible would that be to a vision impaired visitor with JavaScript turned off? I think the idea behind it is that because you also have

Re: [WSG] Federal Court hearing re Virgin Blue website accessiblity

2009-01-19 Thread Seona Bellamy
2009/1/20 Chris Dimmock chris.dimm...@gmail.com: Did anyone else see this?? http://www.propellerglobal.com/news/News/128/virgin-blue-to-court-again-for-discrimination http://www.theage.com.au/travel/virgin-blue-in-court-over-website-20090119-7kc1.html Been a while since SOCOG.. Yes,

Re: [WSG] is there a way to force legend text shows in TWO lines?

2008-11-26 Thread Seona Bellamy
2008/11/27 tee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2) I have a column that is 160px wide, but the text in legend is a bit longer, I added a span class, declared a width, but in Firefox, the text still refuse to run in two lines - the rest of the text simply get cut off when the words reaches 160px threshold. I

Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
would be to have an entry page instead. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had no trouble making the div that sits on top of everything extend to the height of the viewport, but if the page extends beyond that then you see normal (and clickable) page

Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
What, and divert them to the agreement page if they'rve not agreed? Hmm... not sure that I'll get the go-ahead to do that. We're working to some fairly tight design requirements. I've already got it saving the session variable once they agree, so that they only get bothered once. Cheers, Seona.

Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
/31 Luke Hoggett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Doesn't have to be a separate divert page, you can just use the session variable to decided whether the overlay element is displayed on each page regards Luke Seona Bellamy wrote: What, and divert them to the agreement page if they'rve not agreed? Hmm

Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
of the viewport, and stopping scrolling? Maybe an overflow: hidden on the body? Cheers, Tony -Original Message- From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:48:48 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page That's already what I'm

Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
making it the size of the viewport, and stopping scrolling? Maybe an overflow: hidden on the body? Cheers, Tony -Original Message- From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:48:48 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

Re: [WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
, What about just making it the size of the viewport, and stopping scrolling? Maybe an overflow: hidden on the body? Cheers, Tony -Original Message- From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:48:48 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] 100% height over

[WSG] 100% height over existing page

2008-07-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I need to create an absolutely positioned div that will float on top of the existing page layout, and be 100% of the height of the rendered page, not the viewport. Something similar to what Lightbox does - greying out the page and displaying a box over it. The trouble is, because it's to

Re: [WSG] Validation

2008-06-19 Thread Seona Bellamy
At a guess, I'd say that the problem is caused by having your javascript in the head of your document, which makes the validator try to parse it (and so find li's in the head, where no li's should be). Simplest solution would be to move your javascript into an external file and just link it into

Re: [WSG] Serving Different Content to Returning Visitors

2007-07-26 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 27/07/07, Daniel Kendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am curious if there is a way to serve up different pages to returning visitors so its different than that of a first time visitor. I would like to avoid cookies all together. But if I must I must. I'm assuming you're talking about

Re: [WSG] Visual Design Of Websites

2007-07-11 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 12/07/07, James Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep and i would totally agree, but try telling that to marvin and youll confuse the poor guy, i was keeping things very simple for him/her. From past knowledge, if your to add jargon (which it is to marvin here) you would do more damage then

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Bruce's suggestion for a break down, but he too acknowledges the grey area around development. And I'd say that once you touch the db, you are definitely back end, not front end. In the end I guess I question the validity of defining

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seona Bellamy wrote: My definition of designer vs developer is these days coloured by the company I'm working for. The designers are the people who come up with the ideas and the layouts and the graphics. The developers are the people who write

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i wouldn't advertise the fact i can do 'ALL' the jobs on my own in the same time it would take a team of developers. To much hard work, so little money. That's an interesting point in itself. Should you try to be a one-stop-shop? It's

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do the rest of you do? How many of us *don't* have to be a jack-of-all-trades? I guess that partly depends how you define all trades. Now that I no longer have to do graphical work, I simply consider myself a web developer. That said,

Re: [WSG] Page Structure

2007-06-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 29/06/07, Sander Aarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, Sander, but that logic escapes me. Of course I don't know what goods a certain company sells if I don't know they exist. But I know what goods I'm looking for, so that's what I'll search on. Sometime you're not looking for goods,

Re: [WSG] There's no back button on this website...

2007-04-11 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 12/04/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put another way, the injunction is don't comply *unthinkingly* with user requests -- don't give them what they say they want, give them what they *mean* they want... That's a very good point. I've often found that outside of the world of

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 30/03/07, Donna Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have the href attribute point at something sensible (not #). Have the JavaScript do what you want, and return false from it to prevent the link being followed. i suppose i understand what you're saying but i don't know javascript, i don't

Re: [WSG] Employee Hierarchy in CSS

2006-03-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Sarah, Haven't got time to work this up properly, but what about something like: div id=tier1 spanMD information in here/span /div div id=tier2 spanGM information in here/span spanFinancial Controller information in here/span spanPA information in here/span /div div id=tier3 spanManager

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/03/06, Darren West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would advise against * html hacks though - http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_12.html#a000598 Daz On 07/03/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know, but the following addition makes it look pretty ok in my IE6...* html

Re: [WSG] tableless layout stuff

2006-03-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/03/06, Jack Pivac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But does anyone have any idea how to put that alongside the title andimage etc without using a table? or should i just use a table? The simplest way would be to wrap the bits you want to have on the left (title, pic, price, etc) in some sort of

Re: [WSG] tableless layout stuff

2006-03-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/03/06, Jack Pivac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest way would be to wrap the bits you want to have on the left (title, pic, price, etc) in some sort of containing element such as a div and float it left.but if i float it left.. then doesn't that mean i have the wrap the whole lot in

Re: [WSG] form button css

2006-02-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 28/02/06, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #foo form { text-align:center; padding:0; }#foo label { color:#fff; font-size:85%; margin:0 5px; font-weight:bold; }#foo input{ margin:0 5px;}#foo button {border:none; height:23px; background:none; padding:0 0 0 0; margin:6px 0 -6px 0;} Just a

Re: [WSG] Breadcrumb as Section Heading H1

2006-02-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 21/02/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking out aloud here: not sure why, but using a list forbreadcrumbs doesn't quite sit right with me, despite it being a type ofnavigation device. I think it is due to list structures replacing thedir and menu elements - and the notion that

[WSG] DL for Form display misaligning in IE/Win

2006-02-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I've been using this technique for styling DLs to take my forms: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/dl-table-display.htm Everything was working fine, I though, but I've just had it pointed out to me that one of the forms is acting oddly. Instead of aligning nicely with

Re: [WSG] Questions about Data Tables and Accessibility

2006-02-02 Thread Seona Bellamy
Well, I can't answer all of your questions, but I'll do what I can to get the ball rolling. :) 2. How to tell when one table or two tables is better? When is it better to split up the data? What happens if you have two columns with the same name? Is this badtable structure? I have two colgroups

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 31/01/06, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to specify in CSS that a certain area is to have no style at all. Let's say I have my global style sheet where I style my ph1 etc. but on one page I have a div with id #editableArea I want that div to have

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 01/02/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's still going to be 1em of whatever 1em becomes by the time youget down to #editableArea (i.e. 1em of (x) on #editableArea of (y) on#body of (z) on #html), isn't it? Hmm... good point. Might need some tweaking, but I'm not sure how.

[WSG] Equal Height Columns vanishing in IE

2006-01-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm using the Equal Height Columns technique from PIE's 'One True Layout', along with the Any Order Columns technique from the same. It works fine in Firefox, and used to work fine in IE, too. That was when I was using the Jello Mold technique to size the site. Now, however, the word

[WSG] Allowing users to select and sort items

2006-01-18 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm wanting to create an interface similar to the one I've taken a screen shot of here: http://www.staging.renovate.com.au/example.png (this is from My Yahoo! when you go into Change Layout) In my case, I only need to have the ordering on the right-hand box. The left-hand box will

[WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out why one single form element is inheriting the left margin of the containing div in spite of the fact that I'm setting it to a different value further down the stylesheet. Page: http://staging.renovate.com.au/admin CSS:

Re: [WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 16/01/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seona Bellamy said: form element is inheriting the left marginYou have conflicting id's for content. Change to the textarea's id tosomething else. *blush* Whoops Fixed now. Thanks. :) Cheers, Seona.

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 11/01/06, Thomas Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote: Can anyone who is running a larger resolution than 1024x768 please have a look and tell me if the layout is holding up? Sorry no time to peek, but I am using this on a current project

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 11/01/06, Duckworth, Nigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone who is running a larger resolution than 1024x768 please have a look and tell me if the layout is holding up? Looks good at 1600-1000px. Scrollbar appears at 999px. -Nigel Thanks Nigel. That's exactly where the

Re: [WSG] Dynamic DIV Height

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 10/01/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help Seona,I followed the advice in the URL you sent me andeverything works great. Well, sorta...Adjusting the height created another issue in Opera 8.It's no longer displaying the background image for #sitewrapper. I'm not sure if it's a

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks Scott and Paulo, those were excellent definitions. I understand it a lot better now. So back to fiddling for a while. Cheers, Seona.

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 09/01/06, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't had a look at your page in IE win but noticed one thing inthe source code.In your conditional comment, the width of the _expression_ is set to anegative % value. Don't think that is correct. !--[if IE] style type=text/css #sizer

[WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-08 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I've used the Jello Mold Creator at Position Is Everything to handle the sizing issues for the site I'm redeveloping. Seems to be working fine in Firefox, but when I opened it in IE I found that it was far too wide. Ugly sideways scrolling, content vanishing off the right side of the

Re: [WSG] Dynamic DIV Height

2006-01-08 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 09/01/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody!I have two DIV's: DIV A and DIV B.DIV B is inside DIV A.When DIV B has text it expands outside of DIV A(DIV A stays the same height). How can I make it so DIV A height expands as DIV B height expands? Your problem is that the contents of

Re: [WSG] A floating menu that keeps folding where it shouldn't (repost)

2005-12-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks for the advice, guys. I'll have a look into it all and see what I can do. Or maybe I'll just try and convince my boss that it's not too long before we completely redesign the site, so we should just wait and redo it properly then. ;) Cheers, Seona.

[WSG] A floating menu that keeps folding where it shouldn't (repost)

2005-12-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
At least, I think it shouldn't. It doesn't in Firefox anyway, but IE is insisting on not sliding under my banner properly. Have a look at http://www.renovate.com.au The issue arises when you view it at 800x600 or so. In Firefox, it all works nicely and the out-hanging tab in the bottom row

Re: [WSG] Fluid problems

2005-11-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 17/11/05, Adam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having BIG problems trying to get the content of this site to be held within the image 'containers' I've used. Help me, please?! I'm beginning to lose it. Adam http://www.janelehrer.co.uk/live5 I've had a look, and the paragraph that is

Re: [WSG] advices for using headings more correctly

2005-11-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 04/11/05, Julián Landerreche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at some pages where h1 for the website name is only used in the homepage. Then, in internal/content pages, the h1 usually goes for the section name or the article title. Of course, this second approach seems to need a

Re: [WSG] standards, accessability and validation?

2005-11-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 01/11/05, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told them that they need to start with web standards and get thier pages to validate before they start on accessability. Was that sound advice? Well, while validation might not be seen as technically essential to accessibility, I'd say that

Re: [WSG] standards, accessability and validation?

2005-11-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 01/11/05, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks seona and josh, You're welcome. :) -thats a key point, i design with standards in mind but they've been slicing my ai files into a tables and calling it a day. I am meeting with them this week to talk about this. I will try and talk the

[WSG] Looking for help with standard-based JS rollovers

2005-09-14 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Here's an outline of the requirements: The site I'm working on has a dynamically-generated menu (a nested list with Son of Suckerfish dropdowns) running horizontally underneath the banner section. In order to add a little more life and interest to the pages, we want to have the

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 08/09/2005, at 9:14 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: On 8 Sep 2005, at 8:59 AM, Craig Rippon wrote: by-the-by: I am a web development student at Yeronga TAFE college in Brisbane, Australia. One of my instructors has never heard of DOCTYPE, refuses to put tags in lowercase and also refuses to

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/09/2005, at 9:31 AM, Kenny Graham wrote: In most of the previous table layout vs css layout arguments I've seen on here, people refer to divs vs tables. Now, I never learned table based layouts, and don't understand them (spacer gifs, etc). Because of this, I don't/can't think along

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/09/2005, at 1:50 PM, Peter Asquith wrote: Al Sparber wrote: I'm not evangelizing table-based layouts, although for real-world clients they sometimes are the right choice. Presumably, in this case, the right choice is the choice that limits the up-front cost and training required to

Re: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 08/08/2005, at 1:47 PM, Kwok Ting Lee wrote: 2. Additionally, I am likely going to be posting entries that will be partly in Chinese (quotations from the original text together with my translations and comments, so that knowledgeable readers can refer to the original themselves to judge

Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 15/07/2005, at 11:40 AM, David Pietersen wrote: But, if you're in the business of building web apps that target a specific platform.. :)   We all do, really.  I am at home, and don't have the research here, but current statistics show that 97.4% of all devices accessing web content

RE: [WSG] A few positioning problems

2005-04-11 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Stuart, 1/ The navigation buttons are currently text links sitting on top of backgrounds. I'm having trouble getting them to centre nicely though. If someone could have a look and give me some ideas of how I can make everything line up nicely, it would be greatly appreciated. The

[WSG] A few positioning problems

2005-04-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Working on a site for a client, and having trouble figuring out a few things. 1/ The navigation buttons are currently text links sitting on top of backgrounds. I'm having trouble getting them to centre nicely though. If someone could have a look and give me some ideas of how I can make

RE: [WSG] Unofficial Melbourne meetup

2005-03-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi, I'm certainly happy to put my hand up for this. It also gives me a chance to meet and greet some folks, since so far the official meetings have never been on a night I can attend. So, any day other than Monday is good for me. :) Where in Melbourne are you staying? We could always meet at an

RE: [WSG] Why won't my list items centre?

2005-03-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Claudia, The site has undergone a transformation since then, and not necessarily for the better. The layout I had before was very unstable from a cross-browser point of view, and since we needed it for going into a client meeting this morning I ran out of time to debug it fully. So it's now

RE: [WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-02-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Laakso And then along comes a *nit-picking bozzo,* still on the back of the bus, with XP_SP2, who finds that: Nit-picking is good. It helps me build better sites. Hopefully I can fix the

[WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-02-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Can I have some people look over this site for me please? Especially Mac users, since I don't have a Mac to check it on but my client does (so I know she's going to comment on how it looks on a Mac). http://www.onehouseproductions.com Since I didn't have total control over the creation

RE: [WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-02-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
*grin* Cool, thanks for the links. I'll have to check them out. I'm sure it will be much cheaper than buying a Mac. :) Cheers, Seona. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jan Brasna Sent: Monday, 28 February 2005 12:42 PM To:

RE: [WSG] Floated list items not floating on a Mac

2005-02-24 Thread Seona Bellamy
://www.accessibility1st.com.au From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:26:47 +1100 To: WSG List wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Floated list items not floating on a Mac Hi guys, The problem I have is with my menu bar at the top of http

[WSG] Can Mac people please have a look at this?

2005-02-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I've had someone tell me that this page is doing odd things on a Mac. Apparently the navbar is falling out of the content pane. Can someone please have a look and a) verify this, and b) tell me how to fix it? Site: http://www.dare2.com.au/productsservices.php CSS:

RE: [WSG] Why DO floats not stretch their containers?

2005-02-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
I believe that it is because floated elements are removed from the document flow just like absolutely positioned elements are. So the rest of the elements on the page, including the containing element, literally can't see the floated element. If they can't see it, then they can't accommodate its

RE: [WSG] Popups

2005-01-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Novitski Subject: Re: [WSG] Popups Also, while it's convenient to insert javascript event handlers into HTML markup when demonstrating an example, in practice it's probably best to leave the script out of the markup and

RE: [WSG] Popups

2005-01-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Popups At 01:20 PM 1/13/05, Seona Bellamy wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Novitski Subject: Re: [WSG] Popups Also, while it's convenient to insert javascript event handlers into HTML markup when demonstrating

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

2004-12-02 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, According to my friend, her site is now displaying perfectly in Safari and I can see it looking just fine in a bunch of PC browsers (thanks Georg! :) ). It is, however, apparently still misbehaving in IE/Mac. Can I please get some verification of this, first of all? I know that her

RE: [WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this?

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
No, if it was just IE, it would be easy and I wouldn't have needed to ask the question. The trouble was that exactly the same problem was occurring in Firefox. So I needed to isolate both. It's better now, thanks to using the IE/Mac comment hack to just feed a new set of values to everything

[WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Could I please have a few Mac users (both IE and Safari) have a look at this page and tell me if it's working right? My friend has looked at it on her Mac and reported a few problems, but since her computer's been playing up lately I want to check that there is actually a problem and not

RE: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
] Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac) Seona Bellamy wrote: Any PC users who want to look and give opinions would also be appreciated. :) The site: http

RE: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Would you please send me screenshots of these problems off-list? If I can at least see exactly what is happening, I might be able to fix it. Email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Seona. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of

Re: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
at a total loss. Cheers, Seona. Quoting Jixor - Stephen I [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe add a slight outline/glow/etc effect to the menu items as they don't stand out too well, especially when hovering. Also find a way of reducing image size that doesn't result in noticeable grain. Later Seona

RE: [WSG] A web standards group survey

2004-11-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
One thing I was disappointed with in the survey: the question have you ever attended a WSG meeting? only allowed three options and there was no other option. So how could I say that I'd love to attend a WSG meeting and would if it didn't always happen on a Monday when I have a regular prior

[WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this?

2004-11-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, and one of the things I needed to do was to absolutely position each element of the navigation because she wanted to have them follow the shape of the design. So far so good, and I put together a working template on her Mac

RE: [WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this?

2004-11-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
hack if you can do it: * html {//stuff} for IE /* \*/ {//stuff}/* */ to hide rules from Mac IE HTH Terrence Wood On 2004-12-01 6:08 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote: Hi guys, I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, and one

RE: [WSG] Anyone know of any good DOM tutorials?

2004-09-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
... perhaps someone more knowledgable can check it when they read this! Hope it helps! -Michael. On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 07:42, Seona Bellamy wrote: Hi guys, Anyone know where I can find a good, easy to follow online tutorial on using the DOM to control elements on a webpage

[WSG] Anyone know of any good DOM tutorials?

2004-09-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Anyone know where I can find a good, easy to follow online tutorial on using the DOM to control elements on a webpage? Specifically, I need to change the class of an element to a different class. Cheers, Seona. __ ella

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Manuel González Noriega The script, for those who don't have the book, is as follows: function toggle(targetID) { if (document.getElementById) { target =

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Manuel González Noriega Shouldn't that be target.style.display = block; Err... which one? The first one or the second one? Confuzzled, My fault entirely, i trimmed a little too

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Seona, depending on the doctype you're using, ID's that are just numbers won't validate. They need to start with an alpha character - for XHTML 1 Strict, at least. But there again, if

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks for the help, guys. I've gone with the dl as suggested by Mordechai, and the script that was in Zeldman's book (sorry, Mordechai, but it seemed like a slightly simpler, more flexible way of doing it - or maybe it's just that I've combed through it so often that I actually understand what it

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Well, I've found a way around the problem (used an incrementing counter instead of the ID-number from the database, so each item has a unique ID) so this question isn't exactly pressing any more. I'd still love to know the answer though, if for no other reason than that there's a good chance I'll

[WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm hoping that this doesn't count as off topic, but I need some help figuring out the best way to mark up a section of code. What I need it to do is operate with the toggle DOM script from Zeldman's 'Designing With Web Standards'. I've already used this script successfully on a

[WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I have a couple of issues with the site I'm working on. They have been reported by the client, and I'm having trouble reliably replicating any of them so I can't work out how to fix them. Can someone please take a look at http://216.119.123.23/ and look for the following errors: * On

RE: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lachlan Hardy Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2004 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please? Seona Bellamy wrote: * On pages like About Us and Contact Details, the centre

RE: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman * On pages like About Us and Contact Details, the centre banner apparently stays stuck at the top of the screen (i.e., the content of the page disappears under it as you scroll, and

[WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE?

2004-08-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, If you have a look at this page in IE6/Win (not sure if it does the same in IE5 or not) you might see that the Today's Special box is floating out over the main content. It is supposed to sit under the picture that it beside it and to the right. It did this perfectly yesterday, and does

RE: [WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE?

2004-08-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
://www.photographia.co.uk | http://redux.deviantart.com - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WSG List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:16 AM Subject: [WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE? Hi guys, If you have a look

FIXED: [WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE?

2004-08-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
__ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively. [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] http://www.splintered.co.uk | http://www.photographia.co.uk | http://redux.deviantart.com - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL

[WSG] Wierd spacing issue after floats

2004-07-22 Thread Seona Bellamy
Another question for all you clever folk in Standardsland, and I can't help but feel that the answer will probably be something really simple. I can't find it though. If you go to the link below, you will see that there is an odd space between the rows of tabs and the start of the content.

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hmm... Thanks, that did seem to make a difference. At any rate, the images are showing up. But instead of tiling nicely across the page, they're showing one to a line and spreading over the whole width of the panel. I've had a look, and I'm not sure how to fix that. (It still works fine in Moz)

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Jason Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: Hmm... Thanks, that did seem to make a difference. At any rate, the images are showing up. But instead of tiling nicely across the page, they're showing one to a line and spreading over the whole width of the panel. I've had

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
No probs. :) Thanks for the tip, I'll have to have a look at that one. And thanks for all your help this afternoon. It's been really appreciated. You've saved me hours of work and a head of hair. ;) Cheers, Seona. Quoting Jason Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: As far

Re: [WSG] The best way to make a tabbed menu with a dynamic number of items?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
of them into a div will probably come into it somewhere, but what do I do to the div? Cheers, Seona. Quoting Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: I'm wanting to make a tabbed menu like the one suggested in ALA's Sliding Doors I II. All well and good, but the menu

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Just a quick related question, but when you put your javascript into an external file, do you need to put the script tags into the file as well? Or do you just have the code in there and then call it in via the script tag below? Cheers, Seona. Quoting Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
://redux.deviantart.com - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files? Just a quick related question, but when you put your javascript into an external file, do you need

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