[WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Collins
Can anyone recommend the best place to get the latest standalone IE7? I've downloaded it from Evolt and a few other places and it just seems to crash after a couple of clicks. Would appreciate your help. Paul ***List

Re: [WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread John Faulds
I use the one found here: http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:43:00 +1000, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend the best place to get the latest standalone IE7? I've downloaded it from Evolt and a few other places and it just seems to crash

[WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, anyone know a good site/piece of software you can get to check your whole site for validation errors? Would speed things up instead of having to do them one at a time. Another bonus would be one that accepts password information on protected sites. Cheers Paul

RE: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG
CSE HTML Validator Pro. www.htmlvalidator.com -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:17 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages Hi all,

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Jan Brasna
anyone know a good site/piece of software you can get to check your whole site for validation errors? http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ Another bonus would be one that accepts password information on protected sites. If you need some sort of private use, you might try to compile W3C

RE: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG
-Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dorward Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:36 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:27:19AM +0200, Roberto

RE: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Sean SPALDING
anyone know a good site/piece of software you can get to check your whole site for validation errors? I use 'A Real Validator' (http://arealvalidator.com/) and local installations (inside our corporate firewall) of the W3C's validator and the WDG HTML Validator. Regards, Sean.

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread John Faulds
The WDG validator can work recursively: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ I was going to suggest the WDG as well. The online version's limit is 100 pages I think. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:53:31AM +0200, Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG wrote: Are u sure? http://www.htmlvalidator.com/htmlval/v80/docs/index.html?validate_to_w3c_sta ndards.htm Looks like they've built a validator in to it since I last looked ... but it also looks like it doesn't run by default.

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Designer
Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, anyone know a good site/piece of software you can get to check your whole site for validation errors? Would speed things up instead of having to do them one at a time. Another bonus would be one that accepts password information on protected sites. Cheers Paul

Re: [WSG] How do I set a css-value for Safari alone?

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Olá! morten fjellman wrote: Hi list, I need to set a few values in my stylesheet that only Safari should read. I've read the article on Gunlaug.no http://Gunlaug.no (http://www.gunlaug.no/homesite/main_8_1.html http://www.gunlaug.no/homesite/main_8_1.html) but I don't quite get it. Can

Re: [WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Roberto Gorjão wrote: http://castelosnoar.com/cna_blog/?p=38lp_lang_view=en An alternative would be to make a backup image of your main hard disk, just in case something goes wrong, and install IE7 over IE6 and have this one running as a standalone instead. I can't recommend Microsofts

Re: [WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Rahul, As it was said before (I don't remember if it was in this list), although Virtual PC is free now, OSs for it aren't. Besides RAM you also need quite a lot of disk space, if you want to have several versions of IE working as they should, each in his own Virtual PC instance. Please

Re: [WSG] How do I set a css-value for Safari alone?

2006-09-25 Thread Tom Livingston
Title: Re: [WSG] How do I set a css-value for Safari alone? On 9/25/06 6:49 AM, morten fjellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll use the hash hack for now Can this be escaped? I am guessing then that this should be at the bottom of a sheet because all styles after the hash will be ignored

Re: [WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread Al Sparber
As it was said before (I don't remember if it was in this list), although Virtual PC is free now, OSs for it aren't. Besides RAM you also need quite a lot of disk space, if you want to have several versions of IE working as they should, each in his own Virtual PC instance. Please correct me if

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Collins
Hi Phillip. I did try out your Nikita site last week, which is what prompted me to seek out a site where I can get all my pages done at once. I thought the service was great, I would say the two drawbacks were the password thing and the wait for my results. I guess I generally want to get

Re: [WSG] How do I set a css-value for Safari alone?

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Morten, As much as I can see, your problem is due to the fact that you've sized your input field by the html size attribute: input type=text size=38 name=text id=input_tv2_marked I see no CSS rules for this input field. If you do something as follows, your problem will be most probably

Re: [WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Collins
 Yes Lachlan, I seem to be having the same problem. Not sure why, it could be cause I have several other Browsers open at the same time, however all my other standalones work together. Maybe it's got to do with the version of XP I am running? - Original Message - From:

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Paul Collins
Thanks to everyone for your replies. I have our tech manager on the case here to sort out the W3C one locally, in the meantime I will use the WDG one, which seems to work fine, except on password protected sites. Cheers,Paul

Re: [WSG] How do I set a css-value for Safari alone?

2006-09-25 Thread morten fjellman
As much as I can see, your problem is due to the fact that you've sizedyour input field by the html size attribute: input type=text size=38 name=text id=input_tv2_marked I see no CSS rules for this input field. If you do something as follows,your problem will be most probably solved without the

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Niels Fröhling
The WDG validator can work recursively: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ ... although I think it has a depth limit (you could install a local copy and remove that limit though. My little Problem with it, is that it moans about the XHTML DTD:

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:54:16AM -0600, Niels Fr?hling wrote: The WDG validator can work recursively: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ My little Problem with it, is that it moans about the XHTML DTD: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd, line 237, character 28:

Re: [WSG] Validate multiple (X)HTML pages

2006-09-25 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, anyone know a good site/piece of software you can get to check your whole site for validation errors? Would speed things up instead of having to do them one at a time. Another bonus would be one that accepts password information on protected sites. Cheers Paul

[WSG] Valid CSS please - ??

2006-09-25 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
Hi All, Back from holiday in Portugal - yes thank you, wonderful. Anyway - is there a way of adding the 3 necessary filters below to give my div an 'opaque' background without invalidating my CSS? I'd like a hack free method if possible but if not, - all comments very welcome. Thanks, Max.

Re: [WSG] Valid CSS please - ??

2006-09-25 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:12:22PM +0100, John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Anyway - is there a way of adding the 3 necessary filters below to give my div an 'opaque' background without invalidating my CSS? If you use non-standard properties, then your CSS can't be valid. -- David Dorward

Re: [WSG] Standalone IE7

2006-09-25 Thread Romeo-Adrian Cioaba
hello,this is my 1st post here, hope i can help you.i run on ubuntu linux and for web development i use several VMware virtual machines. you can download vmware server for free ( http://www.vmware.com/download/server/) and create several windows xp (or whatever you prefer). you can install vmware

Re: [WSG] Valid CSS please - ??

2006-09-25 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
David Dorward wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 04:12:22PM +0100, John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Anyway - is there a way of adding the 3 necessary filters below to give my div an 'opaque' background without invalidating my CSS? If you use non-standard properties, then your

Re: [WSG] Semantic syntax highlighting of PHP-code

2006-09-25 Thread Jan Brasna
I'm happily using these two: http://hvge.sk/scripts/fshl/ http://qbnz.com/highlighter/ -- Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com | www.wdnews.net *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] Validates only EN? (was: Validate multiple (X)HTML pages)

2006-09-25 Thread Niels Fröhling
The WDG validator can work recursively: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ My little Problem with it, is that it moans about the XHTML DTD: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd, line 237, character 28: omitted tag minimization parameter can be omitted only if

Re: [WSG] Semantic syntax highlighting of PHP-code

2006-09-25 Thread Niels Fröhling
I am thinking about what would be the best way to do syntax highlighting of PHP-code. If one considers how PHP:s own syntax highlight function works, it produces a mess of inline-styles (or font-tags for the poor ones still doing PHP 4). See http://se.php.net/highlight_string See also

Re: [WSG] Validates only EN? (was: Validate multiple (X)HTML pages)

2006-09-25 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:55:21AM -0600, Niels Fr?hling wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//ES http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd; EN is the language the DTD is written in, not the the document. That Doctype is just wrong. html

Re: [WSG] Valid CSS please - ??

2006-09-25 Thread Niels Fröhling
The only other way (in my scenario) is to add a transparent image 'over' the background to line up with the div - but this is a bit of a 'fudge' and seems a shame when there is code to do the job. Do you know why it isn't valid? No idea. Opera and Safari support the CSS3 recommendation,

Re: [WSG] Validates only EN? (was: Validate multiple (X)HTML pages)

2006-09-25 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 25 Sep 2006, at 18:55, Niels Fröhling wrote: This is my header: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//ES http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=es lang=es No, it _is_ the //ES, why is that? Any

Re: [WSG] Validates only EN?

2006-09-25 Thread Niels Fröhling
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//ES http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd; EN is the language the DTD is written in, not the the document. That Doctype is just wrong. Hmm, what's the difference? ENTITY being ENTIDAD? I guess it's some left-over

[WSG] Valid WAI LInk

2006-09-25 Thread John 'Max' Maxwell
Hi There, I have just finished validating a layout - www.project.ex16.co.uk and used the tools in the firefox toolbar to check it - all ok on XHTML, CSS and WAI. The first two give you links to use for your VALID! gifs etc but not the third - is there a protocol to follow here? Thanks,

[WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi all I am playing with mod_rewrite to make user/SE friendly urls of a database driven website. I have noticed that CMSs like WordPress (I'm *not* using WP for this project) make use of absolute urls, and that someone on WP's forum mentioned that absolute urls are important for RSS feeds. I

Re: [WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: I'd be interested in what many of you feel is best practice in the use of the following, in combination: 1. User/SE friendly urls (eg http://www.domain.com/folder/1/3/ as opposed to http://www.domain.com/folder/index.php?$a=1amp;$b=3) Looks more professional, easier

Re: [WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread Christian Montoya
On 9/25/06, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am playing with mod_rewrite to make user/SE friendly urls of a database driven website. ... I'd be interested in what many of you feel is best practice in the use of the following, in combination: 1. User/SE friendly urls (eg

Re: [WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Sarah Peeke wrote: Is it true that RSS requires the use of absolute urls? Hello Sarah, Required I don't know, but I always use absolute URLs within my posts so users who get the whole post can follow any included local links without having to actually come to the site. I do the same with

Re: [WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Patrick Thanks for your reply. I'd avoid the ../ shenanigans, as that makes your directories less portable OK, I can see how this works on a remote server. / for home page /images/1.jpg for image folder located in root etc But how do I then maintain this same file structure on my

Re: [WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Rob I won't have a chance to try this until later in the week, but many thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll let you know how it goes. PS I assume this works OK with Tiger? Much appreciated Sarah :) -- XERT Communications email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 0438 017 416

RE: [WSG] Absolute URLs, RSS Feeds Mod_Rewrite

2006-09-25 Thread RobS
Peter Firminger wrote on 26-09-2006: Ok, we're getting way OT now... Please take this discussion off list. Oops... consider it done, and apologies one and all. Rob *** List Guidelines: