Re: [WSG] Validation Errors that don't exist - does the validator work?

2006-05-18 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Kenny Graham wrote: those aren't errors, they're warnings. it's still validating, and just drawing your attention to things that have the potential to cause problems in some circumstances. ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Validation Errors - Follow up.

2006-05-18 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Jan Brasna wrote: * {background-color : inherit} ? Do you think this is really necessary? I mean - just for getting rid of the warnings? As the validator can't sense the DOM and cascade it can't guess how the elements would act in the way of placement and contrast respectively when

Re: [WSG] Validation Errors that don't exist - does the validator work?

2006-05-17 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Felicity Farr wrote: Put colour references in instead of ‘transparent’ and it will validate - guaranteed. -Original Message- *From:* listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Cole Kuryakin *Sent:* Thursday, 18 May 2006 3:14 PM *To:*

Re: [WSG] duplicate id

2006-05-11 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Shawn J. Cassick wrote: i have tossed the class in there instead of the id, but then the css for some reason wont render on screen. Of course you need to change your CSS to reference classes rather than ids. Without sounding patronising, may I suggest a beginners

Re: [WSG] duplicate id

2006-05-10 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Ted Drake wrote: Don’t base your markup decisions on how the final product looks. Base your markup decisions on what the content is and should be. So, if the title test is the title of the page, it should be marked up with a header tag. Placing it in a span, div, p, etc is not giving it the

Re: [WSG] duplicate id

2006-05-10 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Kevin Futter wrote: On 10/5/06 9:45 AM, shawn cassick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am currently recoding a page from sloppy html to xhtml 1.0 strict, my question is, how can i get around the span duplicate id defined, as i use css to define a border around the title text, yes i

Re: [WSG] Horizontal Dropdowns - again :(

2006-05-08 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Veine Vikberg wrote: Greetings; Well, with Ians help I got the looks that I want for the page, and it looks right in both browsers, however - in IE the dropdowns doesn't show up. Everything validates to the smallest detail both XHTML and CSS wise. Any CSS help here would be greatly

Re: [WSG] microsoft.com 100% valid

2006-05-07 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Christian Montoya wrote: On 5/7/06, Rick Faaberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/06 1:40 AM Curby [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: IIRC it was an April Fools post ( http://cssvault.com/gallery/microsoft.php - see site caption)... though I think that's probably a bit harsh as MS have been

Re: [WSG] help needed in validating webpage

2006-04-12 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Germ wrote: Again another thing that im not 100% sure on the strict DTD for XHTML1.0 doesnt allow javascript right??? so if u want javascript included u wuld use the loose DTD?? Am i right in saying this??? you need to add another meta tag to define what form of text you are using, if it

Re: [WSG] Safari Javascript prob?

2006-04-10 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
CK wrote: Safari does not like the JS psudo protocol. On Apr 10, 2006, at 6:34 AM, Fred Ehmann wrote: I have this simple javascript in the head of a page: !-- function newWindowMinorSwing() { window.open('minor_swing.html','jav','width=550,height=360,resizable=yes'); } //-- In the

Re: [WSG] input

2006-04-08 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: Whats to review? a logo, 4 links and badges because you wrote 3 lines of valid XHTML. It's a really great splash page. Joseph R. B. Taylor Sites by Joe, LLC http://sitesbyjoe.com (609)335-3076 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shawn J. Cassick wrote: http://24.130.225.20/DWS

[WSG] input

2006-04-07 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
http://24.130.225.20/DWS/index.htm just lookin for some input on splash page until site in launched. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to

Re: [WSG] Environmentally conscious websites

2006-03-31 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Paul Bennett wrote: Thanks for caring Mike, I bet this dang GUI I stare at all day wastes a TON of power (dual-screen too - I can hear the dams draining as I write). Now where's some of those old punch card computers when we need them? :) Paul '2 cans and a piece of string' Bennett

Re: [WSG] injecting a bit of humor into your css

2006-03-30 Thread Shawn J. Cassick
Joseph Bernhardt wrote: Nick Gleitzman wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: #fish { float:right; } get it? fish floats... har har har. right. Only fish I've seen floating round here are dead... N ;( Well... #liberals { float: left; } Sorry. I know we should keep politics out of WSG, but I