Re: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Kym Kovan
Hi Gary,

I am inserting what I think is a plane old link like this

a href=#1Item 1/a

a name=1Some Text/a

I am doing this with Coldfusion on the server but that would be irrelative I
would have thought? when you click the link it moves the page to the root of
the folder rather than the URL I am currently on?

Its driving me mad! to seems so small and silly, i've done these thousands
of times before but this time its not having it!

Any one care to speculate why?

It reminds me of an old CF bug that used to make it throw a wobbly on named links like 
that. Even tho' you were not in a cfoutput statement the hash threw it. I am 
wracking my brains to remember the fix and failing I'm afraid but it is probably a CF 
problem, therefore completely off-topic for this List :-)


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Yours,

Kym 

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[WSG] IE 5.5 CSS problem- to do with media=print?

2004-04-13 Thread Gavin Cooney



Hi all,

Is there a problem with IE 5.5 and printable style 
sheets? 

I have a page (on a CD, so i can't send teh url) 
with the following styles

style type="text/css" 
media="all"@import 
url("../mcq_images/mcq_css.css");/style

style type="text/css" 
media="print"@import 
url("../mcq_images/mcq_print_css.css");/style

This works fine on most browsers, but on IE 5.5 
there seems to be some stuff missing from the HTML. This is the same stuff that 
is excluded in the printable stylesheet.

!--#printtipcontainer 
{display:none;}#mcqnav {display:none;}.stats_table 
{page-break-inside:avoid;}#page_container 
{page-break-after:always;}--

Could IE 5.5 be displaying the print style sheet 
along with the normal stylesheet? Is this a known problem, or have i done 
something stupid!?

Thanks,

Gavin


RE: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
If you are working on a CF server, you probably have to escape the # since
this is something used by CF in a different context (i.e., for designating
that you want to work with the value of a variable).

I think you do it by doubling up the hashes: ##

See if that works.

Cheers,

Seona.

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Subject: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT


I am inserting what I think is a plane old link like this

a href=#1Item 1/a

a name=1Some Text/a

I am doing this with Coldfusion on the server but that would be irrelative I
would have thought? when you click the link it moves the page to the root of
the folder rather than the URL I am currently on?

Its driving me mad! to seems so small and silly, i've done these thousands
of times before but this time its not having it!

Any one care to speculate why?

GC

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Re: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread G A R Y C R O U C H [ A I T ]
Simple things have simple answers,

Fusebox, which is used in this CF app, puts a base tag in the top of the
page. Bless it!

Remove the base tag, NO PROBLEM!

GC

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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT


 I am inserting what I think is a plane old link like this

 a href=#1Item 1/a

 a name=1Some Text/a

 I am doing this with Coldfusion on the server but that would be irrelative
I
 would have thought? when you click the link it moves the page to the root
of
 the folder rather than the URL I am currently on?

 Its driving me mad! to seems so small and silly, i've done these thousands
 of times before but this time its not having it!

 Any one care to speculate why?

 GC

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Re: [WSG] Introductory Usability Evaluation workshop

2004-04-13 Thread russ weakley
Forgot to mention, 10% discount for WSG members!

James Robertson from StepTwo writes:
We would be happy to offer a 10% discount to WSG members
(please handwrite WSG member onto the bottom of the registration form).

Russ


 There has been a lot of talk recently about how web standards are
 concentrating on tools and are missing the real focus - the actual users.
 While the two are not mutually exclusive, there is definitely a need to
 focus on users. For those who may be interested...
 
 Introductory Usability Evaluation
 -
 Tuesday, 4 May 2004
 Mercure Hotel, Sydney
 
 Full event details:
 http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/040504/index.html

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Re: [WSG] Introductory Usability Evaluation workshop

2004-04-13 Thread Tim Lucas
russ weakley spoke the following wise words on 13/04/2004 6:14 PM EST:
Forgot to mention, 10% discount for WSG members!
Is that on top of the student discount? (not that I have the money 
anyway... lol)

-- tim

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[WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Chris Bentley
The imitable Ian Hickson has some valid HTML to embed Macromedia Flash 
files using only the OBJECT tag...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2004Apr/0071.html

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RE: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread P.H.Lauke
Could anybody confirm if this new method solves the non-streaming problem
of the Flash Satay method ? http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay

Cheers,

P

Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk

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 Subject: [WSG] Valid Flash...
 
 
 The imitable Ian Hickson has some valid HTML to embed 
 Macromedia Flash 
 files using only the OBJECT tag...
 
 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2004Apr/0071.html
 
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[WSG] Two reminders

2004-04-13 Thread russ weakley
Hi all,

1. the WSG design competition is still open, and all WSG members can take
part - there still time to enter. More info here:
http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/12.htm

2. Final reminder for the Sydney WSG meeting 15th April with special guest
David Woodbridge. RSVP's essential.

Thanks
Russ

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Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread James Ellis
Hi

Looking at the code (from source URL below)

  object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354
  codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0;
  width=300 height=120
   param name=movie value=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf; 
   param name=quality value=high

   param name=bgcolor value=#FF
   !--[if !IE] --
   object 
data=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf;
   width=300 height=120 type=application/x-shockwave-flash
param name=quality value=high
param name=bgcolor value=#FF
param name=pluginurl value=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer;
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
   /object
   !-- [endif]--
  /object

It's evident there are two tags running - one for ActiveX browsers (i.e 
IE on Win32) devices and the other for every other browser. The idea 
behind removing the embed tag (a proprietary Netscape tag for NS4 and 
under) was to have only 1 tag set for every user agent. Drew Mclellan's 
Flash Satay on A List Apart does this to good effect.. In the code above 
we have the ActiveX clsid for IE, the other version has the W3C 
recommended way to do it - this seems to be the sticking point for 
certain versions of IE5.x that will display a textarea instead of your 
object.
I did some work on this when I was looking at really pushing Flash for 
some work I was doing and wanted to adhere to the standards. I couldn't 
actually reproduce this bug - Russ told me once that he and Rose didn't 
reproduce it either in their testing (my testing was on IE5.5 on Win ME 
(the platform from hell).

This implementation doesn't really solve the tag soup problem - it uses 
propietrary IE conditionals instead of proprietary Netscape tags 
does IE for other versions of Windows (devices for instance) ignore the 
conditionals and attempt to display two objects? Something that IE 
handles really well ;D

As for the streaming of Flash, modularising the movie is the solution to 
this and probably should be implemented on every Flash app, instead of 
having one movie do everything. It seems to be a layover from the bad 
old days of loading 600kbthats a topic for another list , tho',  
but it's really easy to do and helps out with app updates, scalability 
no end.

HTH
James


Chris Bentley wrote:

The imitable Ian Hickson has some valid HTML to embed Macromedia Flash 
files using only the OBJECT tag...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2004Apr/0071.html

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Re: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Hi Gary,

 I am doing this with Coldfusion on the server but that would be irrelative I
 would have thought? when you click the link it moves the page to the root of
 the folder rather than the URL I am currently on?

You don't have a base href=http://blahblah/; / somewhere in your
head, do you? If not, sorry, no idea :).

Cheers,

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Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread scott parsons
For some things the lack of streaming can be very restrictive as there 
are several things you cannot do with a loaded movie. Sure modularising 
the movie is a good plan, but there are times that you need access to 
that root level of the movie.

What I don't understand is why someone would bother... to me flash is 
not a W3C standard, thus it will not validate... but maybe that is just me.

If you read hixie's page you will see that he is pretty anti flash 
anyways so I doubt he has thoroughly tested this, so it could through up 
unforseen problems (or maybe not, but we don't know, see unforseen above)

As for the streaming of Flash, modularising the movie is the solution 
to this and probably should be implemented on every Flash app, instead 
of having one movie do everything. It seems to be a layover from the 
bad old days of loading 600kbthats a topic for another list , 
tho',  but it's really easy to do and helps out with app updates, 
scalability no end.

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Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Simon Jessey
I am not a big fan of Macromedia Flash. To me, it will always be a
proprietary format with an accessibility problem, despite Macromedia's
efforts to promote otherwise; however, it cannot be discounted as a web
medium. Until SVG becomes more widely accepted, Flash is King. I chose not
to use it for personal work, but I will happily use it if a client requests
it. Thus far, I have been forced to use the Satay method to include it in my
work.

Ian Hickson's solution appears to be sound. Anne van Kesteren rightly points
out that it creates more markup, and has to resort to conditional comments,
but it does represent a simpler solution to that proposed by A List Apart's
twice-cooked method. I will probably use this method, until a better one
presents itself.

Simon Jessey
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...


 What I don't understand is why someone would bother... to me flash is
 not a W3C standard, thus it will not validate... but maybe that is just
me.

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Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
James

Following this tread, reading the satay article, and looking up the  
XHTML 1.0 spec for the object tag, it seems to me, that I could put all  
this code inside an external CSS. My questions are [1] am I right? [2]  
would keeping the flash code out of the HTML using id's on the object  
element allow strict validation, since all major browsers do somewhat  
support object? [3] or just use Drew Mclellan's solution?  Also I ask  
the same confirmation question as P.

Leo

On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 07:43  AM, James Ellis wrote:

Hi

Looking at the code (from source URL below)

  object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354
   
codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/ 
swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0
  width=300 height=120
   param name=movie  
value=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ 
triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swfparam name=quality value=high

   param name=bgcolor value=#FF
   !--[if !IE] --
   object  
data=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/ 
flash.swf
   width=300 height=120  
type=application/x-shockwave-flash
param name=quality value=high
param name=bgcolor value=#FF
param name=pluginurl  
value=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer;
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
   /object
   !-- [endif]--

  /object

It's evident there are two tags running - one for ActiveX browsers  
(i.e IE on Win32) devices and the other for every other browser. The  
idea behind removing the embed tag (a proprietary Netscape tag for NS4  
and under) was to have only 1 tag set for every user agent. Drew  
Mclellan's Flash Satay on A List Apart does this to good effect.. In  
the code above we have the ActiveX clsid for IE, the other version has  
the W3C recommended way to do it - this seems to be the sticking point  
for certain versions of IE5.x that will display a textarea instead  
of your object.
I did some work on this when I was looking at really pushing Flash for  
some work I was doing and wanted to adhere to the standards. I  
couldn't actually reproduce this bug - Russ told me once that he and  
Rose didn't reproduce it either in their testing (my testing was on  
IE5.5 on Win ME (the platform from hell).

This implementation doesn't really solve the tag soup problem - it  
uses propietrary IE conditionals instead of proprietary Netscape  
tags does IE for other versions of Windows (devices for instance)  
ignore the conditionals and attempt to display two objects? Something  
that IE handles really well ;D

As for the streaming of Flash, modularising the movie is the solution  
to this and probably should be implemented on every Flash app, instead  
of having one movie do everything. It seems to be a layover from the  
bad old days of loading 600kbthats a topic for another list ,  
tho',  but it's really easy to do and helps out with app updates,  
scalability no end.

HTH
James


Chris Bentley wrote:

The imitable Ian Hickson has some valid HTML to embed Macromedia  
Flash files using only the OBJECT tag...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2004Apr/0071.html

Cheers,
chris.
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Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread James Ellis


scott parsons wrote:

For some things the lack of streaming can be very restrictive as there 
are several things you cannot do with a loaded movie. Sure modularising 
the movie is a good plan, but there are times that you need access to 
that root level of the movie.
 

Not that this is a Flash list but you can access the _root of the movie 
from anywhere in the movie, including loaded movies.

What I don't understand is why someone would bother... to me flash is 
not a W3C standard, thus it will not validate... but maybe that is just me.
 

This is separate to the markup used to load a Flash movie... sure Flash 
is propietary, so is the embed tag, Quicktime, Real, and lots of other 
media that use the object tag (Gif is proprietary as well and it can be 
rendered by an object tag)

Cheers
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Re: [WSG] Valid Flash...

2004-04-13 Thread James Ellis
Leo

There are a few things happening here:

* The object tag is HTML so you'd need to leave quite a few attributes 
in the tag structure. A few of the presentational elements could go in a 
stylesheet (like bgcolor, width and height), I believe.
* IE for Win completely barfs when multiple object tags are presented. 
The ideas behind nesting object tags is to present a cascading media.. 
those who can't render application/x-shockwave-flash could render an 
object containing a PNG. If they don't do either then plain text can be 
nested in the object tag holding the PNG. This is apparently the 
XHTML2.0 way of rendering media, as IMG will be deprecated - but not for 
a long while yet :D - so we may see a change in IE to compensate for 
this in the far future.

The reason the standard object/embed tag structure doesn't validate is 
that embed is a Netscape tag. Using one object tag for all browsers 
allows validation and the run offs from that.

Just like the object/embed method, this one is a hack to get validation 
across multiple browsers -- much better to work on the single tag method.



Leo J. O'Campo wrote:

James

Following this tread, reading the satay article, and looking up the  
XHTML 1.0 spec for the object tag, it seems to me, that I could put all  
this code inside an external CSS. My questions are [1] am I right? [2]  
would keeping the flash code out of the HTML using id's on the object  
element allow strict validation, since all major browsers do somewhat  
support object? [3] or just use Drew Mclellan's solution?  Also I ask  
the same confirmation question as P.

Leo

On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 07:43  AM, James Ellis wrote:

 

Hi

Looking at the code (from source URL below)

 object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354
  
codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/ 
swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0
 width=300 height=120
  param name=movie  
value=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ 
triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swfparam name=quality value=high

  param name=bgcolor value=#FF
  !--[if !IE] --
  object  
data=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/ 
flash.swf
  width=300 height=120  
type=application/x-shockwave-flash
   param name=quality value=high
   param name=bgcolor value=#FF
   param name=pluginurl  
value=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer;
   FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
  /object
  !-- [endif]--

 /object

It's evident there are two tags running - one for ActiveX browsers  
(i.e IE on Win32) devices and the other for every other browser. The  
idea behind removing the embed tag (a proprietary Netscape tag for NS4  
and under) was to have only 1 tag set for every user agent. Drew  
Mclellan's Flash Satay on A List Apart does this to good effect.. In  
the code above we have the ActiveX clsid for IE, the other version has  
the W3C recommended way to do it - this seems to be the sticking point  
for certain versions of IE5.x that will display a textarea instead  
of your object.
I did some work on this when I was looking at really pushing Flash for  
some work I was doing and wanted to adhere to the standards. I  
couldn't actually reproduce this bug - Russ told me once that he and  
Rose didn't reproduce it either in their testing (my testing was on  
IE5.5 on Win ME (the platform from hell).

This implementation doesn't really solve the tag soup problem - it  
uses propietrary IE conditionals instead of proprietary Netscape  
tags does IE for other versions of Windows (devices for instance)  
ignore the conditionals and attempt to display two objects? Something  
that IE handles really well ;D

As for the streaming of Flash, modularising the movie is the solution  
to this and probably should be implemented on every Flash app, instead  
of having one movie do everything. It seems to be a layover from the  
bad old days of loading 600kbthats a topic for another list ,  
tho',  but it's really easy to do and helps out with app updates,  
scalability no end.

HTH
James


Chris Bentley wrote:

   

The imitable Ian Hickson has some valid HTML to embed Macromedia  
Flash files using only the OBJECT tag...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2004Apr/0071.html

Cheers,
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[WSG] RSS or Atom for an events calendar?

2004-04-13 Thread Justin French
Hi all,

Hopefully this is an applicable place to discuss this.

I've just started looking into RSS/Atom/etc (news feeds in XML), and 
everything is going pretty well, but I'm working on a website for a 
band, and the news feeds seem easy enough, but I'm interested in the 
possibility of using RSS or Atom for calendar events (shows and tours).

But I'm not sure RSS/Atom can be used in this way.

The theory behind shows for a band is that they need to be 
advertised/shown UPTO the date of the event, then they're irrelevant.  
The theory behind news readers is that once you've read something, it 
no longer exists, which is not what I'm aiming for of course.

RSS2.0 only seems to have a published date, not an expiry date, so that 
doesn't seem to help.
Atom seems to have issued and modified, but again no expiry.

So, how can I take advantage of RSS/Atom/etc to keep fans up-to-date 
with shows/tours?  Some ideas I have:

a) when a show is added/edited/deleted from the show database, a news 
item is created advising of the new/revised/deleted show, which would 
of course appear in the news feed.  The advantage here is that there's 
multiple news items which can be tracked.  The disadvantage is that 
shows won't appear in date order (or reverse date order) -- they'll 
simply be added to the feed as things change.

b) a news feed of *just one item* containing a summary of all upcoming 
gigs is offered over RSS/Atom... as the gig database changes, this news 
item is either *modified*, or *over-written* with a new summary... the 
advantage here is that the summary will be ordered correctly, and the 
latest (and only) news post will contain all the information in one 
hit.

Any other ideas?

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Re: [WSG] RSS or Atom for an events calendar?

2004-04-13 Thread Geoff Bowers
The only thing that will be useful for the general public is a basic 
RSS/ATOM feed that just announces dates when you know about them.  You 
cannot build something that is going to somehow be useful in terms of 
edits or deletes.  This sort of syndication is typically aggregated and 
kept at the discretion of the user -- sending additional info like the 
event is no more will only confuse folks.  There is plenty of value in 
announcing new upcoming events though.

You might also consider generating an iCal feed which is simple enough 
-- although Outlook has no idea (as per usual) the rest of the 
calendaring world regards iCal as a common protocol.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/
Justin French wrote:
Hi all,

Hopefully this is an applicable place to discuss this.

I've just started looking into RSS/Atom/etc (news feeds in XML), and 
everything is going pretty well, but I'm working on a website for a 
band, and the news feeds seem easy enough, but I'm interested in the 
possibility of using RSS or Atom for calendar events (shows and tours).

But I'm not sure RSS/Atom can be used in this way.

The theory behind shows for a band is that they need to be 
advertised/shown UPTO the date of the event, then they're irrelevant.  
The theory behind news readers is that once you've read something, it no 
longer exists, which is not what I'm aiming for of course.

RSS2.0 only seems to have a published date, not an expiry date, so that 
doesn't seem to help.
Atom seems to have issued and modified, but again no expiry.
.snip.8.

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[WSG] Yarr, I think IE hates me :(

2004-04-13 Thread Sarah Ly
I am having major issues with this layout. I've been working on it for a
long time and it's just not cooperating in IE. The basic layout was lifted
from MaxDesign's 2-column liquid layout
(http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/).

http://readordie.org/test/

It works like a dream in Firebird, but in IE, the menu on the left is
causing a big gap in the content area. The more you add to the menu, the
bigger the gap. I don't know what's causing it. In addition, in IE there
is some kind of error on line 18, character 9, which is div
class=upgrade.

Also, for pages where the content is short, such as
http://readordie.org/test/index.php?page=updates , how do I fix it so that
the content's background color and left pink border extends down to the
footer (where the copyright is)? I used to use min-height and set a really
large number, such as 1200px, but I'm writing articles for my fansite that
might be exceeding 1200px.

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it! :D

- Sarah

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[WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design

2004-04-13 Thread Jackie Reid



Following Jason Turnbull's advice on another 
problem (that fixed the problem, thanks Jason) I have included an hr class=clear 
to the bottom of my wrapper to make the white background appear. I tried 
div's  br's and they didnt work. hr did.


now...

in firefox the spacing is fine but i can see the hr 
at the very bottom of the wrapper
in ie i cant see the hr but i have too much space 
at the bottom of the page...it should only show 5px margin...

how do i make them go away...?

the css goes something like this

hr {height: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #fff; 
background-color: #fff;}

and

.clear { clear:both; font-size:0; 
line-height:0;}

any light shed on the subject would be appreciated. 
That fact that i dont even know what makes up an hr could be a problem, but i 
can't find a definition of an hr anywhere.

site: http://www.mockorange.com.au/mocksites/test/jugernaut/index.html
css: http://www.mockorange.com.au/mocksites/test/jugernaut/css/juganaut.css


Jackie Reid


RE: [WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design

2004-04-13 Thread Jason Turnbull
 Jackie Reid wrote:
 I have included an hr class=clear to the bottom of my wrapper 
 to make the white background appear. 
 I tried div's   br's and they didnt work. hr did.

That’s a bit strange I've never had a br class=clear / not work
 
 in firefox the spacing is fine but i can see the hr 
 at the very bottom of the wrapper in ie i cant see 
 the hr but i have too much space at the bottom of the page
 ...it should only show 5px margin...
 how do i make them go away...?

I was trying to do this yesterday and eventually went back to using a
br. IE was the only browser causing trouble, and I tried many
different suggestions I found on the net

I found a post by Eric Meyer to add visibility:hidden, but that still
takes up space.

So I would also like to hear if anyone has a solution

Regards
Jason Turnbull


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Re: [WSG] RSS or Atom for an events calendar?

2004-04-13 Thread Justin French
On 14/04/2004, at 12:38 PM, Geoff Bowers wrote:

You might also consider generating an iCal feed which is simple enough 
-- although Outlook has no idea (as per usual) the rest of the 
calendaring world regards iCal as a common protocol.
That's a great idea, and it looks like there's some PHP classes to do 
it all too!
Is there a similar method of calendar publishing with Outlook at all?

Justin

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Re: [WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design

2004-04-13 Thread Jackie Reid
Jason...I decided to try the br class=clear / thing again cos you said
it should work and now it does(h!)...
maybe it was conflicting with some css that I have now changed or removed.
Possible.

I would also be interested in getting the hr thing working for future use if
poss so would be interested in the solution to that too if any one has it
nutted out already.


Jackie Reid
Mock Orange Web Site Development
1st Floor
92 Victoria Street
MACKAY Q 4740
Ph: 07 4953 4035

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Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: [WSG] Horizontal Rule throwing out design


 Jackie Reid wrote:
 I have included an hr class=clear to the bottom of my wrapper
 to make the white background appear.
 I tried div's  br's and they didnt work. hr did.

That's a bit strange I've never had a br class=clear / not work

 in firefox the spacing is fine but i can see the hr
 at the very bottom of the wrapper in ie i cant see
 the hr but i have too much space at the bottom of the page
 ...it should only show 5px margin...
 how do i make them go away...?

I was trying to do this yesterday and eventually went back to using a
br. IE was the only browser causing trouble, and I tried many
different suggestions I found on the net

I found a post by Eric Meyer to add visibility:hidden, but that still
takes up space.

So I would also like to hear if anyone has a solution

Regards
Jason Turnbull


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