Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Bill Guion
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:03:50 + From: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)" To: Ada Elgavish Cc: "css-d@lists.css-discuss.org" Subject: Re: [css-d] Spry problems Message-ID: <4cd3d686.1010...@rhul.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Alan Gresley
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: [snip] BTW, not that I fully support Georg and his CSS technique. I presume he has come out of hibernation since Molly the cat has been aroused at hearing about a new toy to play with. Maybe IE9 may show Opera up a little. :-) Hmm,

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> > filter:alpha(opacity:0.1); > > "filter:alpha..." is proprietary Internet Explorer > syntax/functionality. > If it serves a purpose - makes IE behave as it should - it should be > kept in the stylesheet no matter what the CSS validator "says". fwiw, I totally agree (my only issue with

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Alan Gresley wrote: Philip. The document that Ada has it which you did some work is xthml traditional, has way to many divs and table elements. It has text-align:center for the container. This does center block elements in IE6 and IE7. The document basically caters for the lowest dominator, th

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Alan Gresley
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Sorry, Ada, I am sure you are not interested in this digression : if you look at the Web-Consultants version, you will see that I have also made some improvements to the horizontal menu bar, but I am unclear what changes you would also like to make to the v

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Alan Gresley
Ada Elgavish wrote: I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS Validator mean...; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them...I do understand, though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the vertical navigation spry. Would correcting these

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Sorry, Ada, I am sure you are not interested in this digression : if you look at the Web-Consultants version, you will see that I have also made some improvements to the horizontal menu bar, but I am unclear what changes you would also like to make to the vertical one. Come on Eric : rule the re

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread G.Sørtun
On 05.11.2010 12:44, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: That is a philosophical perspective which you are perfectly entitled to hold, but with which I personally have no sympathy whatsoever. Standards are standards : ignore them at your own risk. Whose talking about /ignoring/ standards?

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
"G.Sørtun" wrote: "filter:alpha..." is proprietary Internet Explorer syntax/functionality. If it serves a purpose - makes IE behave as it should - it should be kept in the stylesheet no matter what the CSS validator "says". That is a philosophical perspective which you are perfectly entitled

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread G.Sørtun
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1); "filter:alpha..." is proprietary Internet Explorer syntax/functionality. If it serves a purpose - makes IE behave as it should - it should be kept in the stylesheet no matter what the CSS validator "says". regards Georg __

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dear Ada -- I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS Validator mean…; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them…I do understand, though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the vertical navigation spry. Would correcting these errors of syn

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 11/05/2010, at 10:53 AM, Ada Elgavish wrote: > I do not know enough programming to understand what the errors listed by CSS > Validator mean...; thus, I am afraid I cannot correct them...I do understand, > though, that these are errors of syntax in both the horizontal and the > vertical nav

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Ada Elgavish
nu buttons looks just the way I want it...Not in the browser though... -Original Message- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) [mailto:p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:08 PM To: Ada Elgavish Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Spry prob

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Ada Elgavish wrote: Dear Philip, Thanks again for introducing me to the Validation Service! I corrected all the mistakes detected by the validation service. Still have the problems below… Any help will be appreciated! You're very welcome, Ada, and congratulations on correcting the errors s

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Ada Elgavish
x27;d) [mailto:p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 4:56 PM To: Ada Elgavish Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Spry problems Dear Ada -- Your page has seven errors [1]. Until you correct these, all behaviours are effectively random. Philip Taylor [1]

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Dear Ada -- Your page has seven errors [1]. Until you correct these, all behaviours are effectively random. Philip Taylor [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/Trial19.html Ada Elgavish wrote: Hello, I am developing a website at: http://138.26.120.126/CAMA

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-04 Thread Ada Elgavish
Hello, I am developing a website at: http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/Trial19.html using Dreamweaver in CS4. I have several problems: (1) The horizontal navigation bar at the top. I gave the entire navigation bar the width 780px and each menu button a width of 156px. In spite of that the menu b