[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-24 Thread Derek Chen-Becker
Ah, you spoiled youngsters! My first experience on anything resembling the net was dialing up to a local BBS on a 300 baud hotel terminal that used my TV for output. I think my family got our Atari 800 PC in '86! Derek On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Tim Perrett he...@timperrett.com wrote:

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-24 Thread Charles F. Munat
Ah, you spoiled youngsters! My first experience was on a $1600 electric calculator that could not only do + and -, but also * and /! Unheard of in 1975 when mechanical adding machines were the rule. You had to get special permission from the teacher to touch it. Chas. Derek Chen-Becker

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-23 Thread David Pollak
Does ie have anything other than quirks mode? I'll update the rendering methods to make sure span goes out as begin/end tags On Dec 23, 2008 12:55 AM, Oliver Lambert ola...@gmail.com wrote: I have a html/css developer who is claiming that span id=errMsg/ is causing IE to go into quirks mode. He

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-23 Thread Marius
LIft code actually does this for empty node that are not div, script or textarea. I could quick fix it for span as well but can you verify if there are are cases except span where IE is messing around with us? On Dec 23, 10:55 am, Oliver Lambert ola...@gmail.com wrote: I have a html/css

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-23 Thread Tim Perrett
Wow, thats pretty impressive! To not even work in the worst-bit-of- software-enginering-know-to-man (aka IE 6) is a serious feat in itself! Kudos! lol On 23 Dec 2008, at 15:39, Derek Chen-Becker wrote: There's nothing else out there like IE for job security. We still have an app in-house

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-23 Thread Charles F. Munat
You must be too young to remember Netscape 4. And IE on the Mac? Tim Perrett wrote: Wow, thats pretty impressive! To not even work in the worst-bit-of- software-enginering-know-to-man (aka IE 6) is a serious feat in itself! Kudos! lol On 23 Dec 2008, at 15:39, Derek Chen-Becker wrote:

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-23 Thread Tim Perrett
Ha! Well I remember IE on mac, that truly was awful... I also remember dialing up to the internet from a 14.4k modem with windows 3.1, and browsing on some ancient version of netscape! As for my age, I was born in 86' :-D Cheers, Tim On 23 Dec 2008, at 20:41, Charles F. Munat wrote:

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-23 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Tim Perrett he...@timperrett.com wrote: Ha! Well I remember IE on mac, that truly was awful... I also remember dialing up to the internet from a 14.4k modem with windows 3.1, and browsing on some ancient version of netscape! As for my age, I was born in

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-16 Thread Oliver Lambert
On 16/12/2008, at 3:30 PM, Charles F. Munat wrote: I copied and pasted the error message code into my own error message utility and then changed the blank output to Text(). I also wanted to rewrite other parts of it. Im trying to get a html programmer to come up with a css fix before I

[Lift] Re: error message tag

2008-12-15 Thread Charles F. Munat
I copied and pasted the error message code into my own error message utility and then changed the blank output to Text(). I also wanted to rewrite other parts of it. It seems there is always a trade-off between convenience and configuration. My coding style is very different from David's (at