Re: [WSG] top: 0px; Not Working

2006-03-30 Thread Webmaster
Lachlan Hunt wrote: Webmaster wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: Webmaster wrote: Here's a link to the page: http://www.gypsydev.us/css/ !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN That DOCTYPE triggers Quirks mode. *Never* use a DOCTYPE that triggers quirks mode ... use

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: ***SPAM*** digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2006-03-30 Thread Sue Morris
Title: Out of Office AutoReply: ***SPAM*** digest for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org I will be out the office Thursday, March 30 through Thursday, April 6. Please contact the helpdesk if you need immediate assistance during that time. Helpdesk 317-921-4357, 877-489-8324 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue

Re: [WSG] Standards site gets pagerank 0 - any help?

2006-03-30 Thread Darren West
Hi James, The best place for information on SEO is www.webmasterworld.com. Don't panic though as I notice the domain was only registered on January this year and Google sandboxes new domains (meaning they disappear or a listed very low in any results pages). The best thing to do is sit tight and

[WSG] injecting a bit of humor into your css

2006-03-30 Thread Ted Drake
Ok, I just got done figuring out some semantically useful class names for divs with dotted borders on the bottom or top, a common style in our page. I finally came up with topbunk and bottombunk; cute, but fairly simple and easy to understand. My friend and I began thinking of less

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

2006-03-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Ted Drake wrote: So, anyone else out there have a gem or two? More of an in-joke, but my colleague (padwan learner when it comes to web design and standards) who recently started with us is called Dafydd. In his honour, I've changed the ID of the navigation (and related CSS rules) on one

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

2006-03-30 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Notice the site? Notice the hack? http://connect.microsoft.com/Styles/GeneralStyles.css :) ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

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

2006-03-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Brian Cummiskey wrote: Notice the site? Notice the hack? http://connect.microsoft.com/Styles/GeneralStyles.css .ViewFeedback-Discussion-AddNewCommentLink ? .FeedbackOverviewUserOptionsHeader ? .AdvancedSearchSearchOptionSection-Description ? Damn, here I was worrying about using .img

[WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Chris Littell
So, I'm new here, and I have a questions :) Why no forum? I mean, I don't -mind- the 70+ responses a day, but with emails being delayed, and recieved out of order for various reasons and so on, would it not just make sense to have a forum? I'm sure there are plenty of people who would donate

Re: [WSG] IE 6.0.2 Menu Issue

2006-03-30 Thread sharron
order now game hosting voice hosting web hosting mailing list I looked vie IE 6.02 and all the pages shown above the left navigation sits too far right. It might be that when you are navigating from a page that lines up all the way left, to a link that the left navigation is too far right,

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

2006-03-30 Thread Joseph Bernhardt
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 just had to!

RE: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Bennett
Possibly silly question... To slightly negate the 'pull' medium downside - could forum threads be incorporated into an rss feed - that way your feedreader could update the feed periodically and you could chime in on anything you deem pertinent... The bonus I find from email is the ability to

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

Re: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Chris Littell
I can't speak for many forum sets, but Vanilla from http://lussumo.com/ has wonderful feed capabilities. And yes, I would agree that response time is better 'on list' than on a forum, but length/amount of response and overall interaction tends to be lower overall. My 2p. Paul Bennett

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

2006-03-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Chris Littell wrote: Isn't adding jokes into your own code akin to telling your self a joke? I don't know of a single client of mine who knows that View Source is even available as a browsing command. Everyone on this list does (or should). Code comments and css files are part of this whole

[WSG] BBC: Government sites fail web tests

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Futter
Just came across this link on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4853000.stm Some mainstream attention for web standards! -- Kevin Futter Webmaster, St. Bernard's College http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/ ** The

Re: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Christian Montoya
On 3/30/06, Chris Littell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm new here, and I have a questions :) Why no forum? I mean, I don't -mind- the 70+ responses a day, but with emails being delayed, and recieved out of order for various reasons and so on, would it not just make sense to have a forum?

Re: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Chris Littell
I ask a question, and you respond by basically telling me to 'get lost'? How polite of you. Christian Montoya wrote: On 3/30/06, Chris Littell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm new here, and I have a questions :) Why no forum? I mean, I don't -mind- the 70+ responses a day, but

Re: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Chris Littell wrote: I ask a question, and you respond by basically telling me to 'get lost'? Hardly. I got that Christian was just pointing out that you have a choice. If you don't want a list format, you don't have to have one. It's up to you. Also, if you read the guidelines, you'll

[WSG] Environmentally conscious websites

2006-03-30 Thread Mike Brown
With a looming winter power shortage in New Zealand, Webstock www.webstock.org.nz has decided to act now and do our bit to help save energy. We've redone the site in a way we're convinced is a model for more rational and sustainable energy use. Please take a look, and please spread the word.

Re: [WSG] Environmentally conscious websites

2006-03-30 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Mike Brown wrote: With a looming winter power shortage in New Zealand, Webstock www.webstock.org.nz has decided to act now and do our bit to help save energy. We've redone the site in a way we're convinced is a model for more rational and sustainable energy use. Please take a look, and

RE: [WSG] Environmentally conscious websites

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Bennett
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] Environmentally conscious websites

2006-03-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Mike Brown wrote: With a looming winter power shortage in New Zealand, Webstock www.webstock.org.nz has decided to act now and do our bit to help save energy. We've redone the site in a way we're convinced is a model for more rational and sustainable energy use. One thing I don't understand:

Re: [WSG] MSN in bad shape

2006-03-30 Thread Lachlan Hunt
matt andrews wrote: Wow. I just went to www.msn.com to compare results with some other search sites. This is the first time I've visited MSN for a long time. They appear to have a badly broken site, for non-IE users. On my Firefox 1.5/WinXP, the site serves two of the stylesheets as

Re: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Chris Littell
Vanilla (http://lussumo.com/) is the only standards complaint forum I know of. Though that very well may be due to the fact that it is the only forum I've been even remotely interested in - due to its highly extensible architecture. Chris Littell wrote: So, I'm new here, and I have a