Re: [WSG] Semantics of P element (?)

2006-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
I somehow got the impression p stood for phrase... (?!) Mariusz Nowak wrote: Anyway I wonder how it really should be treated.. (I'm not 100% positive that my approach is right) or maybe both way are semantically valid to treat p as I do and more strictly as you do.. However due to lack of

Re: [WSG] ie-only hack

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/18/2006 01:58 AM, Barney Carroll wrote: Geoff Pack wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: So, old hacks like the 'star html' hack for IE6 (and older versions) is now perfectly valid IMO, while hacks relying on bugs that have survived into IE7, are extremely unsafe. 'extremely unsafe'? I'd say

Re: [WSG] ie-only hack

2006-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
Paul Novitski wrote: But seriously, how many years have you been telling yourself the star hack is unsafe? What did that lack of safety ever mean? Same as it means now -- the likelihood that someday your code will fail because it depends on the coincidence of two unrelated bugs in an

Re: [WSG] Re: digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-12-18 Thread Kay Smoljak
On 12/18/06, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay Smoljak wrote: At least you will know where to look, instead of trying to work out which combination of backslashes and asterisks fixed the particular issue for which version. One would hope that this information would already be

Re: [WSG] ie-only hack

2006-12-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Geoff Pack wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: So, old hacks like the 'star html' hack for IE6 (and older versions) is now perfectly valid IMO, while hacks relying on bugs that have survived into IE7, are extremely unsafe. 'extremely unsafe'? I'd say they are safe until Microsoft releases another

Re: [WSG] ie-only hack

2006-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: To me a 'conditional comment' is a constructed hack, and I see no reason to litter anything with it, unless there's no other option. However, those 'conditional comments' won't target any other versions than they are set up, so they are pretty safe in themselves. A point

Re: [WSG] Minlo Technologies | Sri Lanka

2006-12-18 Thread James Gollan
the overall layout is nice, but I think you could make a bit more of the business card at the top left. It doesn't look quite finished. And on some pages the drop shadow isn't lining up. The main layout breaks a bit (and far too quickly) when the text is resized in firefox. This isn't a problem

Re: [WSG] Minlo Technologies | Sri Lanka

2006-12-18 Thread Barney Carroll
Chamara Peiris wrote: Hi guys, All ur comments about website are welcome. http://www.minlotec.com Cheers, Chamara Very nice. I think spacing is a big issue - if elements could have larger vertical margins the whole thing could breathe a lot easier: this is especially true of the headings,

Re: [WSG] Minlo Technologies | Sri Lanka

2006-12-18 Thread ~davidLaakso
Chamara Peiris wrote: Hi guys, All ur comments about website are welcome. http://www.minlotec.com Cheers, Chamara One always runs the risk a power user will break a page when images are used (in part) to lay it out. Otherwise, very nice. Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [WSG] Semantics of P element (?)

2006-12-18 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Maybe this is an incorrect philosophy when approaching (X)HTML, but I always look at things in a more meaningful way when approaching semantics. If you were to ask an english major and a w3c specs author to define a paragraph, you'd get to very different answers, wouldn't you? I feel that as

[WSG] Re: [WD]: [ANN] New release of the W3C CSS Validator - Fuji

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
(I know I'll burn in hades for top posting, but I want to both comment and pass this on to other lists at the same time) Nice work. I've made a comment on the blog based on a really superficial look of the new system, but while it's waiting in the moderation cue, I thought I'd echo it here as

RE: [WSG] Minlo Technologies | Sri Lanka

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Chamara, The site looks great - well done! One small thing (possibly related to 'Web Standards'... Sort of) - if you're targeting an English-speaking audience, you'd do well to hire a freelance web copy writer to rewrite the site content. Someone on the list may know of a good freelance

RE: [WSG] Semantics of P element (?)

2006-12-18 Thread Gerardo Chairez [Addictive Media]
I thought that p Stood for paragraph Gerardo Cháirez -Mensaje original- De: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Barney Carroll Enviado el: Lunes, 18 de Diciembre de 2006 03:50 a.m. Para: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Asunto: Re: [WSG] Semantics of P element

Re: [WSG] Semantics of P element (?)

2006-12-18 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Gerardo Chairez wrote: I thought that p Stood for paragraph It does. And it should be noted that a paragraph can consist of a single word. At least in a dialogue: In dialogue, each speech, even if only one word, is usually a paragraph by itself; that is, a new paragraph begins with each

Re: [WSG] Minlo Technologies | Sri Lanka

2006-12-18 Thread John Faulds
One always runs the risk a power user will break a page when images are used (in part) to lay it out. Otherwise, very nice. Is a power user someone who resizes the text? To that end, you might want to consider setting the width of your h2 in ems so that when the text is resized, the space

Re: [WSG] Minlo Technologies | Sri Lanka

2006-12-18 Thread Chamara Peiris
Hi Guys, Thanx for you guys kind help full comments. I'll be back with those critical changes let you guys know it. As you can see i'm still learning would love to learn from you all. Let's rock the world ;) Cheers, Chamara On 12/19/06, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One always