Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Lo
Sorry Steve, I wasn't intentionally referring your point, I was just dismissing any general idea that it was bad design visual design. I need to be more discriminatory with my use of quotation marks next time. Nick Just by way of clarification, when I said "it _looks_ bad" I wasn't referr

RE: [WSG] Dealing with IE and tables in CSS

2006-10-05 Thread Kepler Gelotte
> Oi vey...it's actually been a litte while since I've had to tackle a > table inside of a div (percentage width) in IE. All the various IE's > hate what I'm trying to do here. Are there any new techniques for > pulling this off? > http://www.vaska.com/a/test/ All I see is a aragraph insid

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-05 Thread Doc
Nick,Just by way of clarification, when I said "it _looks_ bad" I wasn't referring to the visual aspect of the design, but rather the execution. CheersSteve On 06/10/06, Nick Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, I wouldn't even say it "looks bad" as visually it's much betterthan a lot of sites (asid

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Lo
Yes I was thinking the same really. We cannot say this is a case of "bad design principles" without being fully aware of the requirements of the site. For example; if the point of the site was simply to be referred to in correspondence or if they wanted to have something for people who chec

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-05 Thread Doc
Jeff,Who is the corporate site targetted towards? I don't think its actual musicians - they'd be more likely (IMO) to go to one of the specific brand sites. So for a corporate/group Web site - i.e. an umbrella site displaying the breadth of the range - the visual representation isn't bad per se. Ho

Re: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread Al Sparber
From: "Thierry Koblentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> document.getElementById('column1').style.backgroundImage="url('c1.jpg')"; We usually don't use that method (haven't had a need to yet). We often do similar tasks by changing classes. That's what I do this with pure CSS solutions [1], but when JS i

Re: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Al Sparber wrote: > From: "Thierry Koblentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I'm curious to know if anyone here have successfully applied a >> background >> image to an IMG element through scripting? >> I can apply a background color but I can't make >> "style.backgroundImage" >> work. > > document.getEle

[WSG]

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 5 Oct 2006, at 12:16, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As far as I can see, DL's are not deprecated, but they probably should >be, as the vast majority of use cases are semantically incorrect. The >one you describe included; surely a vCard or other microformat is more >appropriat

Re: [WSG] looking for site-ot

2006-10-05 Thread David Dorward
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:13:00PM +0300, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: > >As far as I can see, DL's are not deprecated, but they probably should > >be, as the vast majority of use cases are semantically incorrect. > > Specification provides example: "Another application of DL, for > example, is for m

Re: [WSG] looking for site-ot

2006-10-05 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
As far as I can see, DL's are not deprecated, but they probably should be, as the vast majority of use cases are semantically incorrect. Maybe if you look at it very strictly, but they are OK with the spirit with at least HTML4.01. Specification provides example: "Another application of DL, for

RE: [WSG] looking for site-ot

2006-10-05 Thread michael.brockington
As far as I can see, DL's are not deprecated, but they probably should be, as the vast majority of use cases are semantically incorrect. The one you describe included; surely a vCard or other microformat is more appropriate - the _definition_ of a particular company is a difficult concept to defin

Re: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since no-one else has replied, perhaps I may ask why you would want to > do this? I'm working on a variation of this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/png_overlay_with_no_extra_markup.asp --- Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com **

Re: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Christian Heilmann wrote: >>> I'm curious to know if anyone here have successfully applied >>> a background >>> image to an IMG element through scripting? > Have you tried to set the image to block first? Also, just do > obj.style.background = 'url(bla.gif) #fff no-repeat' > instead of background

[WSG] Dealing with IE and tables in CSS

2006-10-05 Thread Vaska
Oi vey...it's actually been a litte while since I've had to tackle a table inside of a div (percentage width) in IE. All the various IE's hate what I'm trying to do here. Are there any new techniques for pulling this off? http://www.vaska.com/a/test/ Thanks...v Note: this is just a fast m

Re: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread Christian Heilmann
> I'm curious to know if anyone here have successfully applied > a background > image to an IMG element through scripting? > I can apply a background color but I can't make > "style.backgroundImage" > work. Have you tried to set the image to block first? Also, just do obj.style.background = 'ur

Re: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread Al Sparber
From: "Thierry Koblentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm curious to know if anyone here have successfully applied a background image to an IMG element through scripting? I can apply a background color but I can't make "style.backgroundImage" work. document.getElementById('column1').style.background

Re: [WSG] Bad Design Principles

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Lo
It is ironic that this is being done by a Marketing Department when you consider that they should be the very ones chasing for search engine welcoming content. Starting from the very top the titles are not too bad but even the urls need work: dh.html > davitt_and_hanser.html olp.html > olp_

RE: [WSG] obj.style.backgroundImage

2006-10-05 Thread michael.brockington
Since no-one else has replied, perhaps I may ask why you would want to do this? Mike > -Original Message- > From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:05 AM > I'm curious to know if anyone here h

[WSG Announce] Call for Papers - 2007 WebDU

2006-10-05 Thread russ - maxdesign
This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements For members in Australia or those who would like to travel to Australia to present... A call for papers for the 2007 WebDU conference: http://www.webdu.com.au/go/call-for-papers Organisers are particularly ke