Re: [css-d] Standrards Compliance -fine-tuning

2008-10-09 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anything else that be suggested from the css/html (maybe SEO if it's not too OT) perspective that would make this page even more web standards compliant? There doesn't seem much seriously wrong here, but here's some best practice issues for whatever they're worth: *

[css-d] Explorer 6 issue with body size

2008-10-09 Thread t vaughan
The body section, including the footer are not the proper width in IE6. They should appear at 800 pixels and seem to be stuck at 600. I don't have alot of experience at CSS and was hoping you could help me correct an obvious coding issue. It only appears wrong in IE6. All other browsers

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Ingo Chao
The debate about hacking is mostly about hacking IE lte 7. We have sufficient methods to hack IE, though. Because of its market share, we have the knowledge about the bugs, the filtering methods and the workarounds for IE. I don't think we need filtering techniques for current compliant

Re: [css-d] Explorer 6 issue with body size

2008-10-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
t vaughan wrote: The body section, including the footer are not the proper width in IE6. They should appear at 800 pixels and seem to be stuck at 600. It only appears wrong in IE6. http://www.livehorns.com The addition of full width on the relevant element, with higher specificity than the

Re: [css-d] float help in IE6/7

2008-10-09 Thread Dan Katz
Worked perfectly. Thanks for your help! On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Katz wrote: Please take a look at the header of this site: http://ecosphere-services.com IE can't shrink width to content on floats when the content is floats. Thus, IE

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:32:45 +0900 Came this utterance fomulated by Philippe Wittenbergh to my mailbox: Thanks for your worthwhile reply. On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Michael Adams wrote: I have grown so fond of this technique that i have thought of extending both it and @media in a

Re: [css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-09 Thread Keith DiSarno
Oh, come on, we can't even (publicly) help people anymore! Yes, this may be classified in the strict OT rules, but Hedley has a VALID question about where to get good support/help. This isn't about politics or Rwanda. Hedley, I personally don't have any suggestions besides Google (but that only

[css-d] Apologies - OT

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
Sorry folks, just read the Off Topic page David Laakso referred Hedley Finger to and saw the following. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic * Some topics are off-topic for css-d, for example:- * mark-up questions * the future direction of CSS * comments on and

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:52:43 +1300 Came this utterance fomulated by Michael Adams to my mailbox: [snip] Sorry folks, just read the Off Topic page David Laakso referred Hedley Finger to and saw the following. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic * Some topics are off-topic for

Re: [css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-09 Thread David Laakso
Hedley Finger wrote: Can anybody recommend any lists as good as css-d (sycophant! sycophant!) for ... Hedley http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic and Google -- A thin red line and a salmon-color ampersand forthcoming. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:46:10 +0200 Came this utterance fomulated by Ingo Chao to my mailbox: Thanks for your useful reply The debate about hacking is mostly about hacking IE lte 7. We have sufficient methods to hack IE, though. Because of its market share, we have the knowledge about the

Re: [css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-09 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 9 Oct 2008, at 14:04, Keith DiSarno wrote: Oh, come on, we can't even (publicly) help people anymore! To be fair, David's reply pointed to the off-topic page which far from being a 'slap on the hand' is in fact a comprehensive list of, um... lists for other web-related subjects.

Re: [css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-09 Thread Aaron Gray
Can anybody recommend any lists as good as css-d (sycophant! sycophant!) for lurking about JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Apache? Oh, just the whole damn AJAX thingy! I use news groups, comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.php, then there's comp.databases.mysql and alt.apache.configuration. If you

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-09 Thread Jack Blankenships
I can click a link that is displayed off left. On my test page at http://www.cssprovingground.com/ there is a link relatively positioned with left: -220px as the first element on the page. I can tab to the link and activate the link using the enter key in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and even

Re: [css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-09 Thread Holly Bergevin
-- Original Message -- From: Keith DiSarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] we can't even (publicly) help people anymore! Yes, this may be classified in the strict OT rules, but Hedley has a VALID question about where to get good support/help. While I certainly don't

Re: [css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-09 Thread Keith DiSarno
I will take back my hand slapping comment, but I am still of the opinion that the OP implied that they wanted sorta *personal* recommendations to other lists, not a link to a list of lists. Sorta like: I'm a member of php-x and love it. The people are very helpful and knowledgeable and the side

[css-d] revealTrans

2008-10-09 Thread Del Wegener
Good Day; In the past I have used JavaScript and revealTrans to obtain desired transition effects when swapping images. This works only in IE. Is there a purely css method to obtain the same (or similar) effects and which works in most browsers. Thanks for any help Del

Re: [css-d] revealTrans

2008-10-09 Thread Kristina Floyd
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:57 -0500, Del Wegener wrote: Good Day; In the past I have used JavaScript and revealTrans to obtain desired transition effects when swapping images. This works only in IE. Is there a purely css method to obtain the same (or similar) effects and which works in

[css-d] print

2008-10-09 Thread Vincent Pollard
Does anyone have some good links or advice for print styling? I'm finding it confusing. For e.g. can you effect the margins (not css, the margins in the page setup) in the printout? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] Embedded SWF isn't linking

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Hammond
URL: http://www.studentremix.org/hs/media.htm CSS: http://www.studentremix.org/hs/hs.css The flash animation (top object in the sidebar on the right) is supposed to link to http://gallery.me.com/northsideyouth#gallery; when you click on it, but it's not doing anything when clicked on. It's not

Re: [css-d] revealTrans

2008-10-09 Thread Del Wegener
In the past I have used JavaScript and revealTrans to obtain desired transition effects when swapping images. This works only in IE. Is there a purely css method to obtain the same (or similar) effects and which works in most browsers. Hi Del Could you post some examples of what you

Re: [css-d] Embedded SWF isn't linking

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Hammond
Daniel Hammond wrote: URL: http://www.studentremix.org/hs/media.htm CSS: http://www.studentremix.org/hs/hs.css The flash animation (top object in the sidebar on the right) is supposed to link to http://gallery.me.com/northsideyouth#gallery; when you click on it, but it's not doing anything when

[css-d] What's an OP? and other stuff

2008-10-09 Thread Hedley Finger
My apologies for being off-topic and my thanks for the pointers. But what is an OP? Clearly, I am one but a look in the mirror confirmed general normality. Whenever someone replies to one of my threads, I receive two copies of each response but only one copy of responses to other new topics

Re: [css-d] print

2008-10-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Vincent Pollard wrote: Does anyone have some good links or advice for print styling? A good starting-point... http://www.digital-web.com/articles/css_styling_for_print_and_other_media/ ...with links to other relevant resources. I'm finding it confusing. For e.g. can you effect the margins (not

Re: [css-d] revealTrans

2008-10-09 Thread Rick den Haan
Hi Del, In the past I have used JavaScript and revealTrans to obtain desired transition effects when swapping images. This works only in IE. Is there a purely css method to obtain the same (or similar) effects and which works in most browsers. Check the business cards on

Re: [css-d] What's an OP? and other stuff

2008-10-09 Thread Jim Nannery
Afternoon Hedley You wrote: My apologies for being off-topic and my thanks for the pointers. But what is an OP? Clearly, I am one but a look in the mirror confirmed general normality. OP = original poster Whenever someone replies to one of my threads, I receive two copies of each

Re: [css-d] Embedded SWF isn't linking

2008-10-09 Thread Lourens Thalen
What you should do is place the transparent link on top of the flash animation. (presuming you can't fix the link in the flash file directly) Use position absolute to place it on top of the flashfile, give it the correct height and width. Do NOT forget to give a z-index to the object and embed

Re: [css-d] print

2008-10-09 Thread Grant, Melinda
Gunlaug said: Vincent said: I'm finding it confusing. For e.g. can you effect the margins (not css, the margins in the page setup) in the printout? No, you can not affect user-settings like page-margins, page-scaling and whether or not page-background gets printed. Sadly true from a

Re: [css-d] Embedded SWF isn't linking

2008-10-09 Thread Alexandru Dinulescu
position: absolute; is the line of code for absolute positioning z-index: 1; line of code for z-index; --- Alexandru Dinulescu Web Developer (X)HTML/CSS Specialist Expert Guarantee Certified Developer XHTML: http://www.expertrating.com/transcript.asp?transcriptid=1879053 CSS :

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-09 Thread Serge Krul
Setting padding and margin to 0 in 'body' will globally remove all padding and margins until you change the situation. This is simply not true. body {padding:0; margin:0} will zero margin and padding only on the body element. This is in no mean a global reset because the padding and margin

Re: [css-d] revealTrans

2008-10-09 Thread Del Wegener
In the past I have used JavaScript and revealTrans to obtain desired transition effects when swapping images. This works only in IE. Is there a purely css method to obtain the same (or similar) effects and which works in most browsers. Check the business cards on

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-09 Thread Alan K Baker
This is simply absolutely true because the 'body' element is the global (and only) element until you change something. i.e. Add another element into the 'body'. Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch A-P groups

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-09 Thread Alyda Gilmore
The following is quoted from http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/199903.html Not all properties are inherited, however. As an example, most of the box properties (margins, padding, and borders) are not inherited. To demonstrate this, I've uploaded two files to my server: