[WSG] Clearing problem (I think)

2005-03-07 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hello all, I've been staring at this problem and trying numerous things already but it seems I'm not going to solve it which is why I'm asking for some help. If you look at this template: http://www.i-marco.nl/slick/slick.html If the center column has one or two 'postings' all is fine. If it

RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-07 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL We proud to be the first car seller world wide portal to use XHTML and Webstandards ...I'd wait until AFTER your page validates before saying things like that, and check! (http://www.autotrader.co.uk) Your fieldsets are also missing legends

Re: [WSG] Clearing problem (I think)

2005-03-07 Thread russ - maxdesign
Yep, sounds like a clearing problem. One new declaration to your #footbar ruleset should fix the problem: #footbar { clear: both; /* clears floated items above */ height: 30px; background: url(pics/slick_blackbar.png); border-bottom: 1px #fff solid; border-top: 1px #fff solid;

[WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey List, A question. I have setup my own custom forums here: http://www.simplyrewarding.net/forums/thread_20.html That thread is an example of a extreemly wide image. I know what you will say 1) tables.. and 2) if you logged in and saw that the form uses anchors instead of input

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

2005-03-07 Thread John D Wells
Nope, 'Pure CSS Popups' doesn't work on Mac IE5.2. It manifests itself in a similar way to yours; all I see is a tiny black box appear in the top-left corner of the navigation section. I haven't seen that method before, but it certainly doesn't look tricky. Still, IE doesn't like it one bit. .

Re: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-07 Thread Genau Lopes Jr.
Dear Mr. Mason. I suppose that you DIDN´T understood what i wrote before. I said X HTML Web Standards, and for me, that site, even uses HTML tags as you can see follows... div style=position:absolute;left:0px;top:117px;color:white; bTo activate all search settings above pleasefont color=red a

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Stratford wrote: WHY doesn't my forum table Clip the large image? Where do I need the overflow: hidden??? Doesn't work on a table. A table will expand by default, and no style can prevent that-- at least not in any browser I've tested in. The only solution that'll work for you, is something

RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-07 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL Am I looking at the right site? http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1=http%3A//www.meucarronovo.com.br/ doesn't validate -Original Message- From: Genau Lopes Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 March 2005 13:46 To:

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Susanne Jäger
Chris Stratford wrote, On 07.03.2005 11:33: http://www.simplyrewarding.net/forums/thread_20.html That thread is an example of a extreemly wide image. WHY doesn't my forum table Clip the large image? Where do I need the overflow: hidden??? Try adding: table.posts {table-layout:

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey Gunlaug, Thanks for that information :) I ended up settling with: img {max-width: 490px;} It degrades well - IE users get the crap. They can upgrade... to anything else. Thanks again! BTW forums are odd. What is the CSS equivalent which closes all tags... eg, you can have a table cell with

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

2005-03-07 Thread Stuart Homfray
Oh well... As I don't have a Mac close by to play with IE5.2 (and even if I had, I might spend too much time *trying* to make it work), I'll just link to a page containing the same info as the pop-up - that way, everyone's a winner!! :) I would say this about it though - the problem only seems

[WSG] centering a page

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Trick
I'm trying to get a page to center vertically and horizontally, it works well on IE/win and gecko, but when I checked it on mac, both safari and IE/win mess it up. Any suggestions or links to resources on how to center things in the viewport? Here's a link to what I've been working with:

Re: [WSG] centering a page

2005-03-07 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:43:27 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a page to center vertically and horizontally, it works well on IE/win and gecko, but when I checked it on mac, both safari and IE/win mess it up. Any suggestions or links to resources on how to

[WSG] Gnews

2005-03-07 Thread Gizax Studios
Hi all,I 'd like that you try my new experimental application called GNEWS.Gnews is a fast and practical system to manage news of your website, without DB and with your code always validated. Thanks to its easy personalization, Gnews manages news through text files, therefore also who has

RE: [WSG] Gnews

2005-03-07 Thread Jamie Mason
looks good, it lets you submit empty forms though, use something like; if (strlen($whatever) 1) {computer says no}; or if (!$whatever) {computer says no}; Jamie From: Gizax Studios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2005 15:35To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] Gnews

Re: [WSG] Gnews

2005-03-07 Thread Gizax Studios
yes, thank for your advice :) - Original Message - From: Jamie Mason To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 4:49 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] Gnews looks good, it lets you submit empty forms though, use something like; if

Re: [WSG] Gnews

2005-03-07 Thread Kim Kruse
Looks nice... is there some kind of explanation how to implement etc? The only thing I know about it is it comes in a UK and Italian version and it's written in php :-) Kim ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Susanne Jäger wrote: Try adding: table.posts {table-layout: fixed;} http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/tables.html#propdef-table-layout I checked it with the edit styles-Bookmarklet and it works in Mozilla 1.8b, I'm not sure about cross-browser support. It does indeed work in FF 1.0,

[WSG] Disappearing rollovers

2005-03-07 Thread Dennis Murphy Anderson
I'm not seeing what part of the following code is choking IE and causing the link to disappear on a white background when rolling over? I've just read a half dozen case studies on this bug, but all were using a background image. I can only make the bug appear in IE. Thanks in advance for links

Re: [WSG] Disappearing rollovers

2005-03-07 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:13:51 -0600, Dennis Murphy Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not seeing what part of the following code is choking IE and causing the link to disappear on a white background when rolling over? I've just read a half dozen case studies on this bug, but all were

Fw: [WSG] centering a page

2005-03-07 Thread designer
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:43:27 -0500, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get a page to center vertically and horizontally, it works well on IE/win and gecko, but when I checked it on mac, both safari and IE/win mess it up. Any suggestions or links to resources on how

[WSG] 2 questions: antispam code Doc type...

2005-03-07 Thread Devendra Shrikhande
Issue #1: Right now I am using a simple ColdFusion tag to generate the following code on a web page in an attempt to hide it from spammers: script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript document.write(a href='mailto:;); document.write(Email.Handle);

[WSG] two column content problem

2005-03-07 Thread Claudiu RADUT
Hi everyone! I so much hate when I have to ask stupid questions, but I really can`t figure out what`s wrong with this page I`m working on. What I`m trying to do is divide the content in two columns, one with the main texts and such and the other one with details regarding the page. They are

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Mar 2005, at 12:08 AM, Chris Stratford wrote: BTW forums are odd. What is the CSS equivalent which closes all tags... eg, you can have a table cell with this in it: td bTEST /td td TEST /td only the 1st cell is BOLD... Weird. Not weird at all. Look up reference on 'correct nesting of tags' -

RE: [WSG] two column content problem

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Flaschner
Hi Claudia, I haven't looked at the site, but it sounds like you need to add a clearing element before closing content. There are a number of ways to do this, the easiest being to create a class called something like .clear {clear:both;}. Stick it in your html right before closing the content div

[WSG] Embeded video?

2005-03-07 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] Gnews - THREAD CLOSED

2005-03-07 Thread Mark Stanton
Guys I really can't see how this dicussion relates to web standards. This is an ad for a product. Sure the output validates and there are W3C logos in the footer, but seriously -- Mark Stanton Gruden Pty Ltd http://www.gruden.com ** The

Re: [WSG] 2 questions: antispam code Doc type...

2005-03-07 Thread Darren Wood
I use the following bit of code that seems to validate fine (also - lightweight): script type=text/javascript !-- emailE=('darr' + 'en' + '@' + 'webd' + 'eveloper.co.nz') document.write('a href=mailto:' + emailE + '' + emailE + '/a') //-- /script HTH D Devendra Shrikhande wrote: Thanks for the

RE: [WSG] 2 questions: antispam code Doc type...

2005-03-07 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi Devendra, Character Encoding mismatch! The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different from the value in the meta element (iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8) for this validation. ColdFusionMX serves a character encoding in the http

Re: [WSG] overflow: hidden not working...

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Stratford
Sorry nick, I think I didn't explain that right. It is GOOD because in a forum situation, I don't need to worry about closing tags that people forget to. Easier to code :) Nick Gleitzman wrote: On 8 Mar 2005, at 12:08 AM, Chris Stratford wrote: BTW forums are odd. What is the CSS equivalent

Re: [WSG] 2 questions: antispam code Doc type...

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:12 AM, Darren Wood wrote: I use the following bit of code that seems to validate fine (also - lightweight): script type=text/javascript !-- emailE=('darr' + 'en' + '@' + 'webd' + 'eveloper.co.nz') document.write('a href=mailto:' + emailE + '' + emailE + '/a') //-- /script

[WSG] valid code in forums (WAS overflow: hidden not working...)

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 8 Mar 2005, at 11:31 AM, Chris Stratford wrote: It is GOOD because in a forum situation, I don't need to worry about closing tags that people forget to. Easier to code :) Yeah, but your code won't validate... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/

Re: [WSG] valid code in forums (WAS overflow: hidden not working...)

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Stratford
It is a public web forum. What can I hope for there... I am just being realistic for the moment. In the future I may try and parse the text to work out if the user has posted an unclosed tag. I can imagine myself making more trouble than good in that situation... Thanks for the wealth of

[WSG] I hope this is not off topic, W3c validation error

2005-03-07 Thread InfoForce Services \(Angus MacKinnon\)
I hope this is not off topic. If it is, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am starting to get very fustrated. When I try to use the W3C validator for an HTML file, I keep getting the following error. Line 13, column 53: there is no attribute alt lia href=http://asic.bc.cx/asic_history.php;

Re: [WSG] I hope this is not off topic, W3c validation error

2005-03-07 Thread Jalenack
There is no 'alt' attribute for the a element. If you'd like to display information about the link, use the title attribute: lia href=http://asic.bc.cx/asic_history.php; title=ASIC historyASIC history/a/li The alt attribute is only (as far as I know) legal in img tags...The validator was right.

Re: [WSG] I hope this is not off topic, W3c validation error

2005-03-07 Thread russ - maxdesign
I hope this is not off topic. If it is, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am starting to get very fustrated. When I try to use the W3C validator for an HTML file, I keep getting the following error. Line 13, column 53: there is no attribute alt The a element does not support the alt