RE: [WSG] Is there any way to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?

2005-02-11 Thread Ricci Angela
Hi, Irina Sorry, I misunderstood the problem (that's what happens when we read too fast :-( I've found something about styling input=file on http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html. I don't know the quality of the solution (I could not test it yet), but it worths

[WSG] IE fixed: PNG transparency working like Firefox???

2005-02-11 Thread JW
Hi, A developer on my project showed me a site with a lot of PGNs using alpha transparency. Formely we had to include a piece of javascript to get it working the way we want in IE 6.x Since the last patchday it seems that IE 6.x got a security update that fixed the alpha transparency issues

Re: [WSG] Is there any way to set the width of a file input field in Firefox?

2005-02-11 Thread James Ellis
Hi everyone A reminder about attachments on the list - not allowed. Please post links to your files instead. This is covered in the mail list guidelines. Reasons: 1.They increase the traffic and bandwidth through the WSG list server. 2. Viruses commonly fake file extensions. Regards James ---

Re: [WSG] IE fixed: PNG transparency working like Firefox???

2005-02-11 Thread Zachary Hopkins
So far, IE 6.x on Windows supports PNG-8, which has index transparency. The only way I know of to make IE support alpha transparency is to use a javascript, such as Dean Edward's IE7, or to use Microsoft's proprietary filter: in CSS (Read more here: http://www.koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/).

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

2005-02-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andreas Boehmer wrote: Can you give an example of where standard-compliant browsers expand the outer container with a float as content? I believe Roger pointed to the almost perfect example: http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ Myself, being a heavy user of floats,

Re: [WSG] IE fixed: PNG transparency working like Firefox???

2005-02-11 Thread David R
JW wrote: Hi, A developer on my project showed me a site with a lot of PGNs using alpha transparency. Formely we had to include a piece of javascript to get it working the way we want in IE 6.x Since the last patchday it seems that IE 6.x got a security update that fixed the alpha transparency

Re: [WSG] IE fixed: PNG transparency working like Firefox???

2005-02-11 Thread Dmitry Kudriavtsev
JW wrote: Hi, A developer on my project showed me a site with a lot of PGNs using alpha transparency. Formely we had to include a piece of javascript to get it working the way we want in IE 6.x [skipped] I have uploaded all latest updates from WindowsUpdate to confirm what you wrote. PNG still

[WSG] Proper way to embed fonts?

2005-02-11 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, I'm working on redesigning a company website to make it more accessable and I've done a pretty decent job with makeing everything scale with the font sizes, but I have one big problem. Our company is developing a particular font that we want to use for our company name, a font that will

Re: [WSG] Safari and overflow:auto

2005-02-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 11 Feb 2005, at 11:34 am, Paul Ross wrote: Hope this is not off-topic but I have a page that validates as XHTML strict but it is breaking in Safari. This confirms my opinion that Safari is the Victorian Parent of the browser world (ie: overly strict IMO) but why would it break a perfectly valid

Re: [WSG] Proper way to embed fonts?

2005-02-11 Thread Absalom Media
Alan Trick wrote: Hi, I'm working on redesigning a company website to make it more accessable and I've done a pretty decent job with makeing everything scale with the font sizes, but I have one big problem. Our company is developing a particular font that we want to use for our company name,

Re: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility

2005-02-11 Thread Alan Trick
Ok, I see your point here, but I'm the web designer for a company. Most of our customers probably wouldn't know what a 'browser' is and think that the 'e' is the is only way to 'download the internet'. I can't simply forget my customers browsers without alienating them as well, because they

Re: [WSG] Proper way to embed fonts?

2005-02-11 Thread Alan Trick
Thanks for the resources. I dont' think I can use sIIR cause we have an IIS server (as far as I could tell it's php only), but I'll try sIFR. Is they're any quick tutrials on how to implement it? Absalom Media wrote: Alan Trick wrote: Hi, I'm working on redesigning a company website to make

Re: [WSG] ie INSANITY ... please help me

2005-02-11 Thread Mani Sheriar
note to all: IF IN DOUBT, add position:relative; -- it fixes many, many IE bugs :) POSITION:RELATIVE ... EUREKA! I feel like such an eejit - I should have known! I have already taken to adding position:relative to all my main divs, don't know why I didn't think of it as a first step towards

[WSG] help with mystery IE padding

2005-02-11 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All I've been pounding my head against the desk for a while trying to figure out why I'm getting a space between my h1 tag and the topnav. It looks fine in firefox, naturally, but in IE, there is about a 10px margin between the h1 and ul#topnav. This is visible by the jog in the blue bar as

Re: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility

2005-02-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Trick wrote: Ok, I see your point here, but I'm the web designer for a company. Most of our customers probably wouldn't know what a 'browser' is and think that the 'e' is the is only way to 'download the internet'. I can't simply forget my customers browsers without alienating them as