Re: [WSG] OT - maybe: quote or word of the day

2006-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
Hi Bob, You wrote: I'm not being awkward but I still don't understand the issue here. document.write is not what is being served. Rather, it is part of a script that is serving html on the client side. What does javascript have to do the parsing of the xhtml? How else do I serve html

Re: [WSG] xhtm 1.1 and Ruby annotations

2006-11-30 Thread David Hucklesby
it up in Firefox, Opera, etc. Interesting results in IE ... :) Cordially, David Hucklesby -- *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Font-sizing in quirksmode

2006-11-11 Thread David Hucklesby
David McKinnon wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get font sizing consistent between IE6 and Firefox. Unfortunately our CMS writes two HTML comments before the DOCTYPE declaration on each page, throwing IE into quirksmode. This means that the default text is too large on IE and much too small on

Re: [WSG] Dropdown menu issue - part II

2006-11-07 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:36:34 +, Nick Roper wrote: Sorry folks, forgot to say that this was fixed, many thanks to all concerned. Out of interest, what's the correct way of thanking people and advising that something is fixed - not quite sure what to do on/off list. Personally, I like to

Re: [WSG] Help needed with CSS dropdown menu issue in Opera

2006-11-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:29:01 +, Nick Roper wrote: When the page started out there were no requirements for any dropdown navigation, so everything was just handled by #contentLeft. Then a request for a dropdown was made and I added the code css per the example on List Apart. The

Re: [WSG] IE 7 freezes liquid, jello

2006-11-03 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:23:49 +0800, Nick Cowie wrote: I would expect my layout to expand beyond the browser window width when zoomed (either page zoom in IE or Opera or text zoom in any browser), my layout width is em based and uses a little javascript when the page is loading to change the

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Mitra Foundation

2006-11-02 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:51:23 +0530, Rahul Gonsalves wrote: Dear All, http://rahulgonsalves.com/mitra/0111/index.html I would appreciate a site check, for this website - built for a non- profit looking to promote alternative energy choices. I'd agree with Rachel and David - a really

[WSG] IE 7 freezes liquid, jello

2006-11-02 Thread David Hucklesby
Liquid designs, sized with percentage width, and the brilliant Jello layout from Mike Purvis[1] behave in a bizarre manner in IE 7 when page zoom is applied. It's as though the entire page grows or shrinks regardless of the window constraints, throwing a horizontal scrollbar when zoomed in (Ctrl

Re: [WSG] Percentages

2006-10-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:06:11 -0400, TomGou wrote: I'm not a CSS newbie, and not a CSS Pundit either. What I'd like to know, is there anything inherently wrong with using percentages for a three column floated layout? Say my outermost container is 720px wide, is it problematic if the column

Re: [WSG] Entity Name vs Entity Number

2006-10-21 Thread David Hucklesby
James Oppenheim wrote: A quick question. When marking up XHTML should I be using entity names or entity numbers? Is there a standard or best practice? On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:29:44 +1000, Lachlan Hunt responded: ... Even better than using references is to encode the file as UTF-8 and just

Re: [WSG] The usability of a frame-style layout

2006-09-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:15:47 +1000, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: [...]  However, with css we now have the ability to imitate frames in an  accessible and search-engine friendly way for browsers that support  it. So the question comes back to usability (and maybe aesthetics):  wouldn't

Re: [WSG] CSS confusion

2006-09-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:43:53 +0100, Designer wrote: [...]  http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html  Uses the following:  #outer {height: 400px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;}  #outer[id] {display: table; position: static;}  and I don't understand the [id] bit.  

Re: [WSG] In-page font sizer

2006-09-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:45:56 -0400, Tom Livingston wrote:  Hello list,  I'm looking for a simple, tried and true method of allowing a  user to increase/decrease font size on a page – no, not by using  browser settings. You know... You see an icon of a big 'A' and a  little 'a' and clicking them

RE: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)

2006-08-03 Thread David Hucklesby
 Sunny wrote:  I know how to prevent v.4 browsers from getting my styles, but  how do I stop IE5/Mac from getting them?? All I know how to do is  to give them  something different, not how to exclude them entirely. On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:54:46 +1000, Geoff Pack replied:  see:

Re: [WSG] More on printing

2006-06-07 Thread David Hucklesby
of them - just the ones that give problems. (Bearing in mind that not everyone prints on size A4 in portrait mode.) Cordially, David -- David Hucklesby, on 6/7/2006 http://www.hucklesby.com/ -- ** The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] pls help

2006-06-04 Thread David Hucklesby
. pls anyone help? Stu Nicholls has a min-width solution for Internet Explorer on Windows. It does require you to put IE in quirks mode however, so may or may not be appropriate to your needs. See here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/boxes/minwidth.html Cordially, David -- David Hucklesby