Re: [WSG] Image cache issue in IE and Opera

2006-03-23 Thread Justin Carter
On 3/23/06, Darren West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an issue where an image is requested by a javascript function and although all works fine the first time the image is requested, any subsequent requests appear to hang in IE6 and Opera8. Just FYI, Opera 9 Preview 2 is also getting hung up

[WSG] OS detection.

2006-03-23 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Hi everyone, I have what many be a very odd question. Please bear with me. At the moment i'm in the early stages of planning a digital library project targeting African languages. One aspect that has me wondering at the moment, is ways of selecting or specifiying appropriate fonts in CSS.

Re: [WSG] Vertical Centering

2006-03-23 Thread Designer
Tom Livingston wrote: Listers, I recall someone posting a very easy method of vertical centering a block in a viewport a while back. Seemed straight forward - positioning with percentages and a little negative margin nudging. Googled but came up empty. Can anyone point me to this? How

Re: [WSG] Vertical Centering

2006-03-23 Thread Tyler Keen
apply a height to a block element (200px), position it 50% from the top, give it a negitive top margin of half its height(-100px) On 3/23/06, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Listers, I recall someone posting a very easy method of vertical centering a block in a viewport a while back.

Re: [WSG] Vertical Centering

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Livingston
On 3/23/06 11:47 AM, Tyler Keen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apply a height to a block element (200px), position it 50% from the top, give it a negitive top margin of half its height(-100px) Don't have a viewable page, but when I did this my content (which has a fixed width and height) was half

[WSG] Javascript question

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
I've got a simple test page set up where I'm trying to open up a new window, and then append some content from the opening window into the new window. It works perfectly in IE, but in FF the new window is left blank. Strangely enough, if I put an alert statement above the line of JS code that

Re: [WSG] Javascript question

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathan Carter
Thanks alot Mike, that worked perfectly. Oddly enough I was able to cut the timeout time down to 1 millisecond and it still worked. It's funny that a 1 millisecond timeout is enough to allow the DOM to initialize. Michael Yeaney wrote: I solved this by adding a delay to the code that creates

Re: [WSG] Javascript question

2006-03-23 Thread Maarten Stolte
probably more a matter of allowing a different action to start by adding the timer then it is a question of miliseconds? Ah..guessing is fun ;-) Maarten Jonathan Carter wrote: Thanks alot Mike, that worked perfectly. Oddly enough I was able to cut the timeout time down to 1 millisecond and

Re: [WSG] Microformats and screen scrapers

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Reston
I'm not sure that automatable readability is *ever* a con. If you put it on the Web, expect the information to be public. If you need some level of obfuscation, consider implementing some sort of password or even CAPTCHA... If you want your information to be readily usable by your visitors,

Re: [WSG] Javascript question

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Yeaney
Absolutely Good times:-)The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. -- Nikola Tesla Michael J. Yeaney Software Developer Blue Mountain Quality Resources P.O. Box 830 State College, PA16801 (814)

[WSG] ul li a Problems

2006-03-23 Thread Minh D. Tran
Can anybody tell me what I did wrong with this? In IE 6, the links seems to move up and down when hovered, but not in other browsers.Thanks in advance!Minh Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.#column3 { background: #7799dd url() no-repeat top

Re: [WSG] ul li a Problems

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] ul li a Problems On 3/23/06 4:37 PM, Minh D. Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: padding: 7px; margin-bottom: 5px; This on the hover as well? -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com

RE: [WSG] ul li a Problems

2006-03-23 Thread Minh D. Tran
Thanks! that works just the way I want it."Adam Burmister (DSL AK)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Try putting something like margin: 3px 0; into your li a {} definition- A From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Minh D. TranSent: Friday, 24

Re: [WSG] margins question

2006-03-23 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Another alternative is this: body{text-align: center;} #content{margin: 0 auto; width:600px; text-align:left;} Take that, IE! Joseph R. B. Taylor Sites by Joe, LLC http://sitesbyjoe.com (609)335-3076 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thierry Koblentz wrote: Chris Lamberson wrote: So I would like my

Re: [WSG] Microformats and screen scrapers

2006-03-23 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Scott Reston wrote: If you put it on the Web, expect the information to be public. For me, that pretty much sums up the whole argument. -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- +

Re: [WSG] margins question

2006-03-23 Thread Chris Lamberson
Thats the thing, though, it is an XHTML document being served as application/xhtml+xml. Therefore I was just curious as to whether there was some way I could use it. And also, what is an XML prologue if ?xml version= 1.0 encoding=UTF-8? isnt?Appreciate the info,Chris LambersonOn 3/23/06, Lachlan