Re: [WSG] RE: font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Collin Davis
To which Collin replied (about 3 hours later): Source of http://mrmazda.no-ip.com body{color: #5080C8; background-color: #FEFEFE; text-align: center; font-family: sans-serif; margin: .5em;} Where is the line drawn? You've just overridden a user's possible

Re: [WSG] Site check [Dineen and Westcott] and IE bug

2006-08-25 Thread Mark Harris
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Looks like you have met the 'italic bug'... http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/italicbug-ie.html That bug will make make the float drop whenever a word in the italic text touches the right edge and makes the float expand ever so slightly - only in IE/win.

[WSG] Opera 9 Bug

2006-08-25 Thread Geoff Pack
Just discovered using an escaped comment end hack in an inline style will break in Opera 9 unless it is followed by a semicolon or another style. E.g. p style=color:blue; /*\*/ color:red; /**/ /*\*//*/ color:green; /**/Some text.../p * Will be green for Mac IE 5 * Will be red for all other

Re: [WSG] Site check [Dineen and Westcott] and IE bug

2006-08-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Saviour on a stick! Every time I think I've heard of the weirdest thing, along comes Internet Exploder... Yeah, isn't it fun? :-) You know, the tech guys at Microsoft can't have a lot of fun with this, bolting stuff on in order to make the pig fly. I wonder why they haven't just built a new

Re: [WSG] Site check [Dineen and Westcott] and IE bug

2006-08-25 Thread Mark Harris
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: If they built a new browser from scratch then most of the bugs and weaknesses might disappear all of a sudden, and all the fun would be gone too. Just imagine what the web would look like then... p id=lennon imagine there's a heaven, I wonder if you can.../p ;-) PS

RE: [WSG] Site check [Dineen and Westcott] and IE bug

2006-08-25 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, I have just launched a new site; however, there seems to be a bug in IE on the PC on the following page. http://dineenandwestcott.com.au/about.php You could use absolute positioning of the right column since it seems you just want to get the right column past the navigation bar. Try:

Re: [WSG] Opera 9 Bug

2006-08-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
p style=color:blue; /*\*/ color:red; /**/ /*\*//*/ color:green; /**/Some text.../p Or don't use any inline styles... Jesus, this is a maintenance nightmare. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Opera 9 Bug

2006-08-25 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 25 Aug 2006, at 1:56 PM, Geoff Pack wrote: Only seems to be an issue with inline styles. Moral: always use a closing semi-colon. Moral: don't use inline styles. N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/

Re: [WSG] Site check [Dineen and Westcott] and IE bug

2006-08-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Harris wrote: p id=lennon imagine there's a heaven, I wonder if you can.../p ;-) Sure I can! I use Opera - but I don't challenge that inline-style-comment bug all that often. PS Thunderbird spellchecks Gunlaug as Onslaught heheh Your Thunderbird didn't do too bad, really. Gunlaug

Re: [WSG] Opera 9 Bug

2006-08-25 Thread David Storey
I can confirm that this is a regression in Opera 9 and we will look into fixing this. I'm not sure how high a priority it will be however. David On 25 Aug 2006, at 05:56, Geoff Pack wrote: Just discovered using an escaped comment end hack in an inline style will break in Opera 9 unless it

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Townson, Chris
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: If the generated image also has the right alt text, you can copy paste if you start just before the image (just as with sIFR). The only thing that you can't do is select just a set of characters/words from the replaced heading itself ... you also cannot

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick Lauke
Townson, Chris Patrick H. Lauke wrote: If the generated image also has the right alt text, you can copy paste if you start just before the image (just as with sIFR). The only thing that you can't do is select just a set of characters/words from the replaced heading itself

Re: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Designer
Townson, Chris wrote: ... you also cannot _resize_ text which is represented using graphics. Unless you use opera, of course! One of my bete noires is sites which break when the text is resized a couple of notches up. I see this _so_ often, and it irks me. Again, the zoom feature of Opera

[WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Gaspar
Hello everyone, I try to find this in http://www.mail-archive.com/listdad%40webstandardsgroup.org cause it seems to me that i had already seen this discuss here but i dont find nothing. My doubt is, i got some brochures of products in PDF, some of then have 500Kb or a little more. I have seen

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Townson, Chris
... you also cannot _resize_ text which is represented using graphics. Unless you use opera, of course! now, as a designer, are you saying that you would rather your users saw jaggy graphics which had been zoomed in opera, or smooth text which had been resized in any browser at all.

Re: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Guys, This is another one of these conversations/arguments that really get everyone fired up. I've now read a series of posts that are not much more than little quarrels - everyone ignore Felix's stylesheets - its really not worth it. Spend your time analyzing worthy sites' CSS. No

Re: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Matthew Pennell
On 8/25/06, Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And anyone knows a way of doing that, myme type?! httpconfig?! .htaccess ?? I think you're out of luck - the configuration of what filetypes the browser can handle is specific to the end-user's machine, not something you can control from a webpage.

Re: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Gaspar
i already have made that a info box tell them to save link as or save target as but i make some text with some old coleagues , about 50 years old, with a few experience in internet. And like others with more experience they dont look to the box. On 25/08/06, Matthew Pennell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] Details on our CSS changes for IE7

2006-08-25 Thread GuruGorg . Network
Hello everyone, This is a text about IE7 css improvements. I think it can be usefull for light reading. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712830.aspx Regards -- Goran mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: gurugorg.net ***

Re: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
Hello everyone, I try to find this in http://www.mail-archive.com/listdad%40webstandardsgroup.org cause it seems to me that i had already seen this discuss here but i dont find nothing. My doubt is, i got some brochures of products in PDF, some of then have 500Kb or a little more. I have seen

Re: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Heiden
Gaspar, on Friday, August 25, 2006 at 16:27 Matthew wrote: On 8/25/06, Gaspar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And anyone knows a way of doing that, myme type?! httpconfig?! .htaccess ?? I think you're out of luck - the configuration of what filetypes the browser can handle is specific to the

Re: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 25 Aug 2006, at 14:21, Gaspar wrote: Sow iam thiking of in a way of dont give the chance to user open the PDF in browser instead of that compel the pdf to prompt be download or open width choose program . You can use the Content-disposition HTTP header: Content-disposition: attachment;

RE: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Conyard
If you have control over how the PDF is returned then you can add the following header, or similar to (this one is in ASP): Call Response.AddHeader( Content-Disposition, attachment;filename=yourfile.pdf ) -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] font standards today - apology

2006-08-25 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
I want to extend an apology to the group, and to Felix to whom my ire was directed. I was a bit of a smart-[expletive] yesterday in my reply (re-posted below for the curious or concerned). I like to marry accessibility with usability with design, and in my opinion the latter holds equal

RE: [WSG] font standards today - apology

2006-08-25 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I want to extend an apology to the group, and to Felix to whom my ire was directed. I was a bit of a smart-[expletive] yesterday in my reply (re-posted below for the curious or concerned). I like to marry accessibility with usability with design, and in my opinion the latter holds equal

Re: [WSG] Jumping content in IE

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Jonk
Will try that, I'll keep in touch if that helps. You have a good argument there. I only wanted to have the image as a % value where the image grows and shrinks when resizing the window. But I will change my stylesheet so only on IE the image will get a fixed width. Thanx Kepler On Aug

Re: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Designer
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: . . . lot's of sensible stuff, as indeed do many others. My point about Opera's zoom is mainly concerned with being able to make the graphics expand at the same rate as the textual matter. This relationship has always been a problem to me, as I find the text

Re: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-25 Thread Collin Davis
On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Townson, Chris wrote: now, as a designer, are you saying that you would rather your users saw jaggy graphics which had been zoomed in opera, or smooth text which had been resized in any browser at all. It's not up to designers or developers to tell people

Re: [WSG] PDF no chance to open in browser !?

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Martin Heiden wrote: Gaspar, You can send the pdf with a custom mime-type like x-application/x-pdf. Or a generic standard one like AddType application/octet-stream pdf in your httpd.conf or .htaccess P -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux