Re: [css-d] request: a thorough going over

2009-08-27 Thread david
David Laakso wrote: 6/ Gray on gray is sometimes difficult for some users to read. Have you checked your site with a color contrast analyzer? No, I haven't. This is the first I've heard of such a creature. I'll look into them. FWIW, here's one...

Re: [css-d] request: a thorough going over

2009-08-27 Thread david
David Hucklesby wrote: FWIW - I work at a computer training lab that has workstations with 19 monitors, natively running at 1280 x 1024. I have noticed several students switching to 800 x 600 over the last year. I don't think this is necessarily age-related, either, as students doing this

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Wed, 8/26/09, David Robertson funpackeds...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27/08/2009, at 9:02 AM, tommy_til...@arwb.uscourts.gov wrote: Can you or has anyone ever used CSS to indicate that a link would take you outside the current web site? Trying to come up with some way to

Re: [css-d] validating CSS

2009-08-27 Thread David Dorward
2009/8/27 jeffrey morin rufus2...@gmail.com: I was discussing some CSS techniques the other day and someone brought up a point of a certain fix that I use not validating in the CSS validator. I have never really been overly concerned with validating my stylesheets as long as the html was good.

Re: [css-d] Password Protection

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:19:10AM -0700, Cristiano Diniz da Silva wrote: Don't count on it. You will need a server-side scripting language and if you really want some security you will need also a SSL certificate. Not necessarily. You can use HTTP-level authentication by just dropping the

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Jack Anything's better than opening links in a new window, though :-) Not much is more irritating to me than a site that DOES NOT open external links in

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread David Robertson
Off-topic a bit, but that's what right-click - open in new tab (or even better, middle click) is for. Let the user control the tabs/window, rather than the web page. Not much is more irritating to me than a site that DOES NOT open external links in a new window or tab. Mike

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stevens
I'm personally of the opinion that the web page should have some form of intelligence. I typically design so that if you stay within the domain you stay in the window. If you leave the domain you get a new one so you can more easily return to the domain if you get too deep into the new site. I

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Theresa Mesa
On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Michael Stevens wrote: -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Jack Anything's better than opening links in a new window, though :-) Not much is more

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/08/27 11:35 (GMT-0400) Michael Stevens composed: I'm personally of the opinion that the web page should have some form of intelligence. Then it should be intelligent enough to know it's not its own computer or browser I am using. I'm the one that gets to decide if a new tab or window

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Norman Fournier
On 27-Aug-09, at 8:30 AM, Theresa Mesa wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Michael Stevens wrote: -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Jack Anything's better than opening links in a new window,

Re: [css-d] removing tables

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Wilker
-Original Message- From: David Hucklesby [mailto:huckle...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [css-d] removing tables Something like this, perhaps? http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=97480 That helped with margins, so the text doesn't wrap under the thumb image - thank

[css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Wilker
Along with the container issue I am having in a previous email, I am also having trouble with the nav element. Does anyone have a good resource that will help me emulate the image that I posted for reference on this page? http://www.gorillasuits.com/HTN/default-css.html The blue and red

Re: [css-d] removing tables

2009-08-27 Thread Tim Snadden
On 28/08/2009, at 6:53 AM, Greg Wilker wrote: -Original Message- From: David Hucklesby [mailto:huckle...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [css-d] removing tables Something like this, perhaps? http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=97480 That helped with margins, so the text

Re: [css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread Rod Castello
From: Greg Wilker jer...@well.com Subject: [css-d] nav help To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 7:19 PM Along with the container issue I am having in a previous email, I am also having trouble with the nav element. Does anyone have a good resource that will help

Re: [css-d] removing tables

2009-08-27 Thread David Hucklesby
Greg Wilker wrote: ... I am now having trouble getting the #container to contain the two med-cat items. The border of #container is supposed to wrap everything except the footer. Any help? http://www.gorillasuits.com/HTN/default-css.html -- It's a case of containing your floats.

Re: [css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread David Laakso
Greg Wilker wrote: Along with the container issue I am having in a previous email, I am also having trouble with the nav element. Does anyone have a good resource that will help me emulate the image that I posted for reference on this page? http://www.gorillasuits.com/HTN/default-css.html

Re: [css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Wilker
-Original Message- From: David Laakso [mailto:da...@chelseacreekstudio.com] Subject: Re: [css-d] nav help http://www.gorillasuits.com/HTN/default-css.html First things first. Forget the nav for the moment. Is this how the page proper is supposed to look? html

Re: [css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread David Laakso
Greg Wilker wrote: http://www.gorillasuits.com/HTN/default-css.html First things first. Forget the nav for the moment. Is this how the page proper is supposed to look? html http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/gorilla.htm css

Re: [css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Wilker
-Original Message- From: David Laakso [mailto:da...@chelseacreekstudio.com] Subject: Re: [css-d] nav help Greg Wilker wrote: Just to make sure, it looked to me like you didn't change the html - true? False. Read what I wrote. Again. okay - thanks again, David

Re: [css-d] nav help

2009-08-27 Thread David Laakso
Greg Wilker wrote: -Original Message- From: David Laakso [mailto:da...@chelseacreekstudio.com] Subject: Re: [css-d] nav help Greg Wilker wrote: Just to make sure, it looked to me like you didn't change the html - true? False. Read what I wrote. Again.