Re: [WSG] getting an a

2006-03-29 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Kevin Futter wrote: Russ HTML element family councillor Of course, Russ means family counsellor :-) Not if he was laying down the law... N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ** The

Re: [WSG] injecting a bit of humor into your css

2006-03-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Brian Cummiskey wrote: Notice the site? Notice the hack? http://connect.microsoft.com/Styles/GeneralStyles.css .ViewFeedback-Discussion-AddNewCommentLink ? .FeedbackOverviewUserOptionsHeader ? .AdvancedSearchSearchOptionSection-Description ? Damn, here I was worrying about using .img

Re: [WSG] injecting a bit of humor into your css

2006-03-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Chris Littell wrote: Isn't adding jokes into your own code akin to telling your self a joke? I don't know of a single client of mine who knows that View Source is even available as a browsing command. Everyone on this list does (or should). Code comments and css files are part of this whole

Re: [WSG] Forums

2006-03-30 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Chris Littell wrote: I ask a question, and you respond by basically telling me to 'get lost'? Hardly. I got that Christian was just pointing out that you have a choice. If you don't want a list format, you don't have to have one. It's up to you. Also, if you read the guidelines, you'll

Re: [WSG] Credit where credit is due - (was) MSN in bad shape

2006-04-02 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Vincent Hasselgård wrote: Explorer 5.2 for Mac is a buggy piece of crap software :) That's not the first time I've seen a comment like that on this list - and this time round I have to say I think that's a bit harsh. Were you building sites when IE5/Mac was released? It was a major step

Re: [WSG] [WSG CMS] Etomite CMS

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Ryan Moore wrote: Hopefully this is not off-topic, It is. Go to the WSG site and subscribe to the CMS list. This was discussed - and moved over to that list - just a few days ago! C'mon, people. Too many posts recently have been OT, or simple thanks messages which would be better sent

Re: [WSG] CSS navigation pushing contents of next div over in IE6

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
David Sam Butler wrote: Hi All,   I'm trying to implement a CSS/javascript dropdown navigation (as shown at the seminars recently) and all's well in IE7, firefox and safari, though in IE6 the navigation div pushes the content of the adjoining div over to the right by a few pixels. I've tried

Re: [WSG] Colour blindness simulator

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Google Colour blindness simulator and you get over 300 results. Can we look there, and not list them here one at a time? ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some

Re: [WSG] Font property

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 6 Jun 2006, at 10:13 PM, Mark Harris wrote: Herrod, Lisa wrote: Wow, That's fontastic! thanks lachlan hardy you're a fontain of knowledge Fonting hell, Lisa! I think you may be endangering the fontamental nature of this list. Posts of this type rarely carry the weight we're

Re: [WSG] are transitional doctypes quickmode

2006-07-18 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Tee G.Peng wrote: Hi, Please tolerate my ignorance. I always thought transitional doctypes are quirkmode but today I was told it's not, the quirkmode is when a page has no doctype declared. tee Google is your friend...

Re: [WSG] Default browser stylesheet values

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Paul Hempsall wrote: Just wondering if anyone is aware of any web resources that detail the default style values given to various elements by browsers (specifically IE6)? For example, what are the default IE6 CSS values for body, h1-6, p, etc? Sandra, Samuel: I think you're

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

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Paul Collins wrote: so when clients ask me what to build for I can justify building for IE5 Mac. Given that IE5/Mac is now officially obsolete, why not group it with other dinosaurs (NN4.x et al) with flaky CSS support and filter your CSS delivery so that browser only receives a stylesheet

Re: [WSG] Div names

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
TuteC wrote: Hello all! I have a rather simple question: does it have any semantical meaning the name of a div? For example, if I have a div class=Distributorsh3Distributors/h3/div, will the search engine understand the name of the div or di I need that h3 to do that? How about h3

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

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Steve Green wrote: I would hardly call OSX an 'upgrade' - it's a major investment. It's not just the £100 or so for the OS, it's the cost of all the new applications like an office suite and all the other stuff you need plus the installation time and hassle of migrating email accounts etc.

Re: [WSG] IE7 bug?

2006-08-03 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Andrew Ingram wrote: The people who made the code originally were using left: -999em to hide the menu, the reasoning was so that screen-readers could still access them (as opposed to display: none), acting on a hunch I switched to the display: none method and everything started working. Hm,

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

2006-08-03 Thread Nick Gleitzman
SunUp wrote: * refuse to support Macs and refer any compaints to the boss and the IT department. Amen to that. There's no reason to be forced to support hardware it your department won't make allowances for testing on it. If they want you to support it, they need to make that possible.

Re: [WSG] IE5.2/Mac... How sites deal with a dead browser

2006-08-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Aug 2006, at 1:28 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Nick Gleitzman wrote: Know of any other sites that have completely dropped CSS support for IE5.2/Mac and/or IE5.0/PC? Re IE5/Mac: see the thread from August 4, 'Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats)'. Ah, hehe, sorry if I brought

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/

[WSG] OS9 browsers (was) *Pure* CSS drop down menu

2006-10-06 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Thierry Koblentz wrote: In my book, that goes against accessibility. It has nothing to do with your example of DVD and TV from the 60's, it has to do with real people who are stuck with OS 9. For them, ie 5 is the best (only) browser. Let's refer to them as the technology impaired... Don't

[WSG] Noise (was) Accessible, lightweight JavaScript...

2006-10-07 Thread Nick Gleitzman
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote: Al Sparber wrote: Thanks in advance for not responding and taking this any more off-topic than it already is. Sorry, I realise that wasn't sent to me Al (despite being part of the 'open' forum it was sent out on) - but I am going to have to respond to this just

Re: [WSG] In the 'Wow, if only everyone did this category...

2006-10-09 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 10 Oct 2006, at 12:07 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote: Can anyone take pity on us without Safari and post a screen capture somewhere, please? http://lachy.id.au/lib/images/2006/safari-multibg-image-20061010 ...morphs to this, seamlessly, on resize...

Re: [WSG] In the 'Wow, if only everyone did this category...

2006-10-10 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Kat wrote: http://www.omnivision.com.au/safari/resize.png http://www.omnivision.com.au/safari/extreme.png N Gday Nick, I am getting a 404 on the resize.png? Kat Unh. Try these: http://www.omnivision.com.au/safari/resized.htm http://www.omnivision.com.au/safari/extreme.htm Apologies.

Re: [WSG] Getting the layout to work and with all browsers

2006-10-10 Thread Nick Gleitzman
David Cameron wrote: The pertinent CSS file is www.camieabz.co.uk/menutest/menustyle.css and is solely for the menu section of the styling. There may be bits and pieces in the other style sheet which need to come out. There's bits and pieces in this one which need to come out, too. For

Re: [WSG] Using list items for horizontal navigation

2006-11-22 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Stevio wrote: Hi Stephen, Here [1] is an explanation of why the padding on your list items is operating in a slightly odd way. When you change the li or the a within the li to display: block and then float it, your problems should disappear. [1]