[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: Possibly spam (level 5.8) - digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-11-15 Thread Geoff.Dibley
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Re: [WSG] IE doesnt pickup the anchor

2006-11-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Bojana Lalic wrote: Is there a known problem with IE ignoring #anchors? That's called a fragment identifier. For example, doing a search on http://lorn.beta.flexiblelearning.net.au/lorn/go/home (in Firefox) produces the following url:

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Mihael Zadravec
as much as I know...in IE it works if you specify the width of a LI element... On 11/15/06, Nick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I have a nasty feeling that I may be going about this slightly incorrectly, but the brain is beginning to hurt. I want a list menu that uses both text

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Stephenson
It's a hasLayout problem. A number of ways to fix it. Try zoom:1; or give the LI a width or border. -- DonkeyMagic: Website design development http://www.donkeymagic.co.uk *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Tom Livingston
On 11/15/06 12:23 PM, Nick Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works OK in FF etc, but in IE the image swap only happens when the mouse is over the text. So, the bg image doesn't trigger the hover. Is it because I've used padding to create the space for the image? Pad the href so the a fills

Re: [WSG] CSS resources for Graphic designers?

2006-11-15 Thread Tom Livingston
FWIW, around here designs are looked at by my dept. before hand at which point we talk about ³do-ability² and offer suggestions and compromises so everyone has the same expectations as to what the end product will be. At least that¹s how it¹s _supposed_ to work... ;-) HTH a little... -- Tom

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/15/2006 09:23 AM, Nick Roper wrote: I want a list menu that uses both text and images for the links. On hover the bg images should swap from b/w to colour versions, and the text colour should change. ... See: http://dev.logical.co.uk/test/imglinktest.html Now that you've got your IE

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Paul wrote: I'd like to suggest that you consider rejigging your menu for faster response time. You could have one image for each menu item, each containing the normal and hover-state image Preload the hover-state images by marking them up on the page in a way that doesn't show Those are

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul Novitski wrote: 2) Preload the hover-state images by marking them up on the page in a way that doesn't show -- such as shifting them off-screen with a large negative margin-left in CSS. By the time the page finishes loading, they will already be in cache and will appear immediately.

Re: [WSG] 1 pixel difference in firefox and IE 7

2006-11-15 Thread Abdulrahman Al-Otaiba
have you tried specifying the width of both the wrapper width and the image? on 11/15/2006 10:08 PM Martyn said the following: Hi all, I am trying to line up an image I have placed in a div to match a repeating background image I have placed in a wrapper div. The problem seems to be that there

RE: [WSG] 1 pixel difference in firefox and IE 7

2006-11-15 Thread Martyn
Hi The wrapper has no set width because I want it to take up all available space, here I have a background img repeating across the page, then I have another div which does have width of 760px which I want to sit on top of the other image to make it look as one whole image. The wrapper does not

Re: [WSG] 1 pixel difference in firefox and IE 7

2006-11-15 Thread John Faulds
IE will often round values differently from other browsers so in cases where you absolutely have to have things line up, I use conditional comments to give IE a different value whether it be width, margin, padding, position etc. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:08:48 +1000, Martyn [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Nick Roper
Folks, Thanks again for the suggestions. Kind of spooky because the initial image load had been bugging me and then I came back to find these posts. Maybe some kind of CSS ESP going on or something ;-) Excellent - many thanks again to all. Nick Thierry Koblentz wrote: Paul Novitski

RE: [WSG] IE doesnt pickup the anchor

2006-11-15 Thread Bojana Lalic
Hi Thierry Thanks for the reply. The only problem is that the behaviour is inconsistent, sometimes it scrolls the result page to the correct location and sometimes it doesn't. Regards Bojana -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[WSG] Interesting article: Beneath the Metadata - Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy

2006-11-15 Thread SunUp
Hi folks, From D-Lib Magazine, v.12(11), 2006: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/peterson/11peterson.html Excellent. sunny. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG CMS] MySource Matrix?

2006-11-15 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
I recently came across MySource Matrix. As it appears to be used by the AGIMO, I was wondering if anybody on the list here has been using it at all? And further, how accessible is the admin interface itself (not the output of the system)? The site mentions WCAG, but I didn't spot any reference to

[WSG] Html Problems

2006-11-15 Thread marvin hunkin
Hi. can you e-mail me privately off list, with any suggestion, on how i can fix the problems, i will post below, while creating my site. cheers Marvin. Hi . do not know if you have created websites, using coding like html, or a web editor. now, have been redesigning my websites, and got them on

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Novitski
Paul Novitski wrote: 2) Preload the hover-state images ... At 11/15/2006 01:17 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: 4) Use CSS: a:link,a:visited {background:url(up_image.gif) no-repeat 0 50%;background-image:url(down_image.gif)} a:hover,a:active,a:focus {background-image:url(up_image.gif)}

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/15/2006 03:43 PM, Nick Roper wrote: I tried creating a new image file for the third link 'home-administration.jpg'. This comprises both black white and colour versions of the image next to each other, with the CSS changing the position when the link is hovered over. The page loads OK

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Paul Novitski wrote: Thanks, Thierry, that's very cool, I'll give it a try. I didn't know that referencing two background images for the same selector in this way would download both of them. (Do you recall if you stumbled on this yourself or got the idea from someone else?) Hi Paul, I got

[WSG] Internet Explorer strikes again...

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Cordover
Hi list, Linky: http://fc.mjec.net/ (one page only, static; stolen from localhost development with wget -m -k) Issues, both IE related: 1. In IE7, massive amounts of whitespace at the bottom for no apparent reason 2. Still can't get the hr background images to work transparently (png alpha

Re: [WSG] Internet Explorer strikes again...

2006-11-15 Thread John Faulds
Unless I'm missing something (I looked in FF as well), the hr appears to be just a solid colour so I wouldn't use a hr, I'd just use a coloured border. I wouldn't use a PNG for your header graphic either. It looks like a GIF would suffice perfectly well. Changing height: 100% to

Re: [WSG] Html Problems

2006-11-15 Thread Andy Woznica
Maybe it's the Dilithium Crystals? It looks like the browser is trying to find the files locally and not having any happiness. Viewing files locally should be possible but having a staging area, on a server, on the internet might be a better idea? A - Andy Woznica

Re: [WSG] Internet Explorer strikes again...

2006-11-15 Thread Joshua Street
On 11/16/06, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't use a PNG for your header graphic either. It looks like a GIF would suffice perfectly well. No. Use a PNG with indexed colours ALWAYS in preference to a GIF. http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/png-gif PNG also compresses better than GIF in

Re: [WSG CMS] MySource Matrix?

2006-11-15 Thread rich
Hi Patrick I've used MySource Matrix on a couple of sites. The backend consists of three frames. The one for navigating the site uses a Java Applet. Selecting an asset (page) to edit causes an HTML page to load in one of the other frames. IMOH the backend is a rather clunky and could

[WSG CMS] Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Dinkin
MySource Matrix is an Australian Company with offices in a UK, we are using here in Oz it is very popular with government organisations. I wouldn't think admin interface is accessible as it uses Java Applet to manage assets (that's what they call pages...) without that applet you couldn't do

Re: [WSG CMS] MySource Matrix?

2006-11-15 Thread Kay Smoljak
I know the WA State Library recently selected it... I'm not sure if Nick Cowie is on this list but he's on the main WSG list, his research was instrumental in their decision. On 11/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Patrick I've used MySource Matrix on a couple of sites. The

[WSG CMS] RE: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Noone
They're a good bunch of lads, based in Sydney too. I checked them out a while ago when I came across a review of the company in Image Data Manager magazine. The only reason we went with another CMS is because we had no budget. I'd recommend giving them a call. They're very approachable.

Re: [WSG] Internet Explorer strikes again...

2006-11-15 Thread John Faulds
You can either play around with MS filters to get IE to play ball or if the hrs are always going to appear over a white bg (ie no transparency required), just re-export them as 24-bit PNGs without any transparency. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:03:09 +1000, Michael Cordover [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] BG images in links

2006-11-15 Thread Nick Roper
I think I have fixed this by applying some height and removing margins, but will also look at suggested article. Many thanks again to all. Paul Novitski wrote: At 11/15/2006 03:43 PM, Nick Roper wrote: I tried creating a new image file for the third link 'home-administration.jpg'. This