RE: [WSG] Form playing havoc with nav (maybe)

2006-08-17 Thread Kepler Gelotte
; left: 0px; width: 95%; padding: 0; margin: 0; list-style-type: none; font-size: 80%; /* border: #000 solid 1px; */ } Regards, Kepler Gelotte From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Form playing havoc with nav (maybe)

2006-08-17 Thread Kepler Gelotte
this affects the layout in a sibling block container is beyond me. Must be another IE bug. Also, Seona, you would do well to validate your pages at http://validator.w3.org/ Regards, Kepler Gelotte -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Form playing havoc with nav (maybe)

2006-08-21 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Looks fine to me now. Regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. http://www.neighborwebmaster.com From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seona Bellamy Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:46 PM To: wsg

RE: [WSG] IE7 and css navigation (from solardreamstudios)

2006-08-22 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Antti, Instead of relying on JavaScript to make your menus functional in IE, why not try a pure CSS solution like: http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm Regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster http://www.neighborwebmaster.com From: listdad

RE: [WSG] Html Question Please Help

2006-08-23 Thread Kepler Gelotte
that can change the current working directory is base href=/abc/xyz /. In that example no matter what the current directory should be, it will now be: /abc/xyz. Hope that answered your question. If not please give a few more details. Regards, Kepler Gelotte -Original Message- From: listdad

RE: [WSG] Jumping content in IE

2006-08-24 Thread Kepler Gelotte
to pass the height and width dimension and set these attributes in the function. Or you could make all the images the same size and set height and width directly on the featureImg. Hope that helps. Regards, Kepler Gelotte -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto

RE: [WSG] font standards today

2006-08-24 Thread Kepler Gelotte
There's another technique you might want to explore that Stewart Rosenberger calls Dynamic Text Replacement in his A List Apart article http://alistapart.com/articles/dynatext. I have come to disagree that part of the process should be coded in JavaScript, but the PHP core is fine.

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] 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] CSS technique quest for tabs

2006-08-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
It's hard to believe that anybody would refuse to help answer me because I have more than one ID in my example page. Hi Tee, To be honest I am a little confused by your menu hierarchy. Is Popular a heading or a sub menu element? Anyway your HTML structure was incorrect as you had a li

RE: [WSG] How do they do this?

2006-09-03 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I really like how this site has the image changing as you roll over the bulleted items.  Does anyone know how they did this?  I think it is a nice little feature. http://dts.edu/ They used javascript on an onLoad function to attach events to the list(s): From purplescript.ashx: function

RE: [WSG] The DOM

2006-09-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
: document.getElementbyId('phone').focus(); If the element can't normally receive focus (e.g. divtext in need of attention/div), then you can dynamically wrap the text with a href=# id=focused. I would suggest using the jQuery javascript library to do any dynamic wrapping. Regards, Kepler Gelotte

RE: [WSG] Target.com case moves forward

2006-09-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
a Democratic Society. Regards, Kepler Gelotte (one of the 'peasants') *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

RE: [WSG] Target.com case moves forward

2006-09-09 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Ok... sorry! I should have read all the posts... there was a reply... *blush*... :] No reason to blush. Your point is well taken. Sometimes we need a little monetary incentive to do the right thing. Regards, Kepler *** List

[WSG] Online accessibility validation site (HERA)

2006-09-11 Thread Kepler Gelotte
and it will also highlight the areas to check in your page as a popup. As I haven't been with this list long, hopefully this site isn't old news to the rest of you. Regards, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http

RE: [WSG] jumping content

2006-09-11 Thread Kepler Gelotte
!-- /div -- div id=footer In general I think you should avoid wrapping block elements completely in other block elements as in: divp.../p/div Or divdiv.../div/div Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com

RE: [WSG] I Hate Internet Explorer Pt 2

2006-09-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
ONE: I have a min width but it doesnt work in explorer so the right flash file drops down when its minimised. Since IE 6.0 doesn't support min-width, you need to use (a CSS invalid) expression: min-width: 800px; width: width:expression((document.documentElement.offsetWidth

RE: [WSG] I Hate Internet Explorer Pt 2

2006-09-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
So dumb question... does that go in the style sheet? I ask because I added it and it didnt work. also the code below goes on one line right?   Sorry I had a typo. It should be: #container { min-width: 800px; width:expression((document.documentElement.offsetWidth 820)? 800px:

RE: [WSG] vert shift in IE *some* of the time...

2006-09-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
the corners. I used the jQuery library at: http://jquery.com/blog/2006/08/31/jquery-101/ and the rounded corners plugin at: http://methvin.com/jquery/jq-corner-demo.html source: http://methvin.com/jquery/jq-corner.js Regards, Kepler Gelotte www.neighborwebmaster.com

RE: [WSG] Internet Explorer I Hate You! (Having some problems)

2006-09-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
So has anyone been able to reproduce the randomly jumping around elements, or even know of such a bug? Can you give a specific example? I don't see what the issue is myself. Is it really random? Do you refresh the screen and see a different layout?

RE: [WSG] OnClick - not valid

2006-09-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
http://82.110.105.29/crownstorage.com/professional-services.htm on the right there are some expandable titles using javascript. The page is valid CSS and WAI but the 'OnClick' command fails to validate as XHTML - is there another way? Welcome back from Portugal Max. I checked the HTML

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

2006-09-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I agree with your sentiments, but frames are not needed anymore - all recent browsers will allow you to add the nav content via the object tag. E.g. object id=nav data=nav.html type=text/htmlFallback navigation here.../object Combine with 'position:fixed' ('position:absolute' for IE) on

RE: [WSG] CSS flyout menu

2006-09-29 Thread Kepler Gelotte
the submenus work (by making them always visible) with JavaScript off, I just think sometimes people forget to test their sites with JavaScript off. Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com *** List Guidelines: http

RE: [WSG] Background image bug in external links (in IE)

2006-10-01 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I have tried to style external links on a site I look after [http://www'psnetwork'org'nz/blog/] with a background image, but the result in IE is appalling. It looks fine in Windows XP Internet Explorer 6.0. Which version of IE and OS are you using? Regards, Kepler

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

2006-10-06 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 paragraph inside

RE: [WSG] different spacing across browser p in li

2006-10-17 Thread Kepler Gelotte
the size to 169px, the problem goes away. Regards, Kepler Gelotte www.neighborwebmaster.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

RE: [WSG] Pure CSS dropdown Menu, take II

2006-10-17 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I'm fine with people using this solution to develop web sites they're paid for. What I don't want to see is people packaging the menu to resell it or to include it in commercial web templates. Is there a license that would match this idea? You may want to use the GNU public license:

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

2006-11-04 Thread Kepler Gelotte
and css/museadvisory_main.css doesn't reference #dropnav at all so the positioning of the list is being handled by #contentLeft. Did you forget to move the menu CSS file to the server? Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com

RE: [WSG] Dropdown menu issue - part II

2006-11-06 Thread Kepler Gelotte
a) confirm that there is an issue with menus/sub-menus in IE7 Yes, you can't get to the last sub menu element Pensions administration without the submenu closing. b) suggest a fix that won't then break IE6, Opera etc I would try using a white border on the sub menu elements instead of using

RE: [WSG] Using JS to expand Abbreviations

2006-11-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
is where print outs don't show the URL (href attributes) to links. My two cents, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help

RE: [WSG] Replacing target attribute in form

2006-11-12 Thread Kepler Gelotte
. Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neigborwebmaster.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

RE: [WSG] Compliant pop ups

2006-12-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
is that they don't behave correctly if your zoom level is anything other than 100% in IE 7. Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

[WSG] Multi language web sites

2006-12-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
comments are appreciated. Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

RE: [WSG] Multi language web sites

2006-12-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Thanks for the responses. I realize my question was a bit off topic for this list so I moved the discussion to the forum. Regards, Kepler *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] Listamatic Centred horizontal list navbars not working

2006-12-30 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/ul The slight gap on hover goes away. Regards, Kepler Gelotte, President Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. address: 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 web: www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List

RE: [WSG] Listamatic Centred horizontal list navbars not working

2006-12-31 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/ul The slight gap on hover goes away. Regards, Kepler Gelotte, President Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. address: 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 web: www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List

RE: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I like this one: http://www.sidar.org/hera/ because it has icons next to the error descriptions that highlight exactly where in your page the problem is or where you need to check. Regards, Kepler Gelotte, President

RE: [WSG] website checker

2007-01-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Can someone tell me the best way to check my website for 'accessability'?? I like this one: http://www.sidar.org/hera/ because it has icons next to the error descriptions that highlight exactly where in your page the problem is or where you need to check. Regards, Kepler Gelotte, President

RE: [WSG] Bizarre IE Float/Clearing Bug

2007-01-31 Thread Kepler Gelotte
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RE: [WSG] re: please help me make this design work some way in firefox an ie

2007-02-22 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, It appears you are missing a closing quote: br class=clr / -Original Message- From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of varun krishnan Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:12 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] re: please help me make