Re: [css-d] CSS Resources

2008-08-20 Thread david
Alan Gresley wrote: Best: a. Avoiding complicating your CSS and HTML with non necessary code. Less is better. Make your HTML present the page information in a readable, usable (to a basic extent) browser view without CSS and (IMHO) Javascript. Add as little markup as possible to style it

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread Lesley Binks
Alan K Baker wrote: I'm sorry, I should have said that I hadn't got round to testing in Firefox yet. I only tested in IE7 for now. I tend to try to get it right in one browser first, then tweak it later for the others and yes, the float:left *does* make a difference in other browsers.

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I think these stats

[css-d] positioning recommendations to duplicate mock-up?

2008-08-20 Thread David Berg
I'm in the design stage for a site I'm creating for a program at our elementary school. I've created most of my content and have a layout pictured but am struggling on how best to implement it. The layout I have envisioned is pretty typical with a header, footer, and one or two content columns

Re: [css-d] Double-floats

2008-08-20 Thread Anthony Aziz
I read a bit of that section but I haven't gotten anywhere with it. I put together a sample of the site I'm working on, you can see the problem here: http://aaziz.org/test.html I simply want Section B to clear the image. I'm starting to think I might have to use absolute positioning? Thanks for

[css-d] List background problem IE (and more)

2008-08-20 Thread Jess Jacobs
Hi all, I'm not new to CSS but I'm (apparently) not a seasoned pro, either. My biggest deficiency is in cross-browser compatability... I designed this site with FF on mac and am now paying the price since it looks HORRIBLE in IE6, the menu sucks in IE7, and pc FF does some butchering. Can anyone

Re: [css-d] CSS Resources

2008-08-20 Thread Thierry Koblentz
If you're willing, I'm looking for answers to these two questions: Aside from the W3C pages, the CSS-D wiki and this list, where do you go for information about CSS? Google - which 90% of the time returns pages from sites that have been already posted as resources. For the more senior

Re: [css-d] Double-floats

2008-08-20 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Anthony Aziz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read a bit of that section but I haven't gotten anywhere with it. I put together a sample of the site I'm working on, you can see the problem here: http://aaziz.org/test.html I simply want Section B to clear the image. I'm

Re: [css-d] Double-floats

2008-08-20 Thread Anthony Aziz
Wow, that was a lot more simple than I expected, thanks for your help. I simply removed the right margin, set an appropriate width (had to tweak a bit), and floated it left. The wasn't much else. Thanks for the suggestion! Anthony Aziz http://blog.aaziz.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM,

Re: [css-d] List background problem IE (and more)

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Gresley
Jess Jacobs wrote: Hi all, I'm not new to CSS but I'm (apparently) not a seasoned pro, either. My biggest deficiency is in cross-browser compatability... I designed this site with FF on mac and am now paying the price since it looks HORRIBLE in IE6, the menu sucks in IE7, and pc FF does

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread Lesley Binks
Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I

Re: [css-d] Pass full css file to IE6 but not IE7 - with CSS only

2008-08-20 Thread Manuel Razzari
I wrote: I now have this: /* IE 5.5 and 6 Georg's underscore hack - gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_20.html */ @import _url(/Styles/screen_ie_5_55_6.css); Well... Here's a big issue we've had that may be of interest to your test page Georg... It turns out that some of the imports

Re: [css-d] List background problem IE (and more)

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Gresley
Alan Gresley wrote: Jess Jacobs wrote: Hi all, [...] http://www.akisma.com/design/precis/ THANKS in advance! Tight deadlines here, so all feedback is appreciated. IE shenanigan I see. Change this. I did a few boo boos in my last reply. This seems more cross browser friendly (checked

[css-d] IE6 Problem Trying to Target a Specific Div

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Akins
Links to page and CSS in question: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/perfectFluid2col.html http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/perfectStyle.css The #round div has a couple margin issues in IE6 that I'm trying to improve, but can't seem to get it to move at all. The right hand margin should

Re: [css-d] Pass full css file to IE6 but not IE7 - with CSS only

2008-08-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Manuel Razzari wrote: It turns out that some of the imports actually produce HTTP requests from IE7, like this: GET /contents/styles/_url(%22chaos-060801-test2.css%22) The resulting 404 page is actually parsed by IE7 as CSS... so if you have some custom 404 page with embedded CSS, it

Re: [css-d] CSS Resources

2008-08-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:24:31 -1000, david ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: Best: a. Avoiding complicating your CSS and HTML with non necessary code. Less is better. Make your HTML present the page information in a readable, usable (to a basic extent) browser view without

Re: [css-d] IE6 Problem Trying to Target a Specific Div

2008-08-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/perfectFluid2col.html IE6 has severe stacking and 'hasLayout'-related problems with that design. See if this rough CSS correction fits the bill... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/ca/test_08_0820.html

Re: [css-d] positioning recommendations to duplicate mock-up?

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Akins
Didn't get this sent to the entire list the first time ... Look at this modification of your mock-up that I've annotated and see that this is a pretty simple layout, really. http://www.springfieldmo.gov/images/cssExamples/mockup.gif Three gif images that shouldn't be that large in file size

Re: [css-d] Forms

2008-08-20 Thread david
Lesley Binks wrote: Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Wed, 8/20/08, Lesley Binks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with

Re: [css-d] IE6 Problem Trying to Target a Specific Div

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Akins
I believe you must be some kind of genius! :-) Your rough corrections always bring things right into line. Not sure how you do it so quickly. But thanks. In your opinion is there another solution to this design that would work better? Not asking for you to do the development, but rather to

Re: [css-d] Browser market [was: Forms]

2008-08-20 Thread Alan K Baker
Can we please leave the title to this thread at anything but Forms. I started the Forms thread and am happy to receive replies to it under that title. I have no problem with the current arguments, but I don't want to join in this one and would rather not have to wade through it, because the

Re: [css-d] IE6 Problem Trying to Target a Specific Div

2008-08-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: I believe you must be some kind of genius! :-) Your rough corrections always bring things right into line. Not sure how you do it so quickly. But thanks. You're welcome. FYI: I practice what I preach - see the [css-d] CSS Resources thread from yesterday. In your

Re: [css-d] Block file from download

2008-08-20 Thread Wendy Troncone
Hello: Does anyone have code to block a user from downloading a flv file? I don''t want people to be able to download. Thanks Wendy My video is here, and the Real Player pops up on PC IE. http://www.hmrlignan.com/video.html

Re: [css-d] Block file from download

2008-08-20 Thread Jim Nannery
Afternoon Wendy You wrote: Hello: Does anyone have code to block a user from downloading a flv file? I don''t want people to be able to download. Thanks Wendy My video is here, and the Real Player pops up on PC IE. http://www.hmrlignan.com/video.html Not to put too fine a point on

Re: [css-d] List background problem IE (and more)

2008-08-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: I did a few boo boos in my last reply. yes This seems more cross browser friendly (checked in IE6, IE7, FF, Safari and Opera on Windows). http://css-class.com/x/precis/ When you narrow the window, the whole construction start

Re: [css-d] List background problem IE (and more)

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Gresley
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: I did a few boo boos in my last reply. yes It was that unusual positioning of the #wrapper div that had me confused. This seems more cross browser friendly (checked in IE6, IE7, FF, Safari and Opera