[wdvltalk] RE: vertical spacing

2003-01-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Ben, May I ask how you hide the CSS from NS? You can use @import instead of link to indicate where your stylesheet is - NS and other early browsers don't understand this, so they ignore it. There are a multitude of CSS-hiding hacks depending on which rules you want to hide from which

[wdvltalk] RE: vertical spacing

2003-01-07 Thread Siobhan Thomas
Yes please I'd love the table. I can't believe the difference between 4.7 and 4.7.2. YUCK YUCK YUCK! On 7 Jan 2003 at 6:57, michael ensor wrote: Not Jon, but just in case you are anxiously awaiting a reply: If you use the @import rule to import your style sheets because various browsers have

[wdvltalk] RE: Image of GB Map

2003-01-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Jim, Bit of a longshot, but I need a flat map of great britain without all of the roads or hills mountains shown to use on the web. If you only want the outline, how's this? http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxuk.htm You could probably stick blobs for major cities on there

[wdvltalk] RE: Image of GB Map

2003-01-07 Thread J.R. Pitts
I don't see a terms and conditions link anywhere, but that doesn't mean they're free for the taking - might be worth checking with about.com that they're OK to use. But I would take the word free in the page title to mean its probably okay ;) J.R. -Original Message- From: Jon Haworth

[wdvltalk] RE: Image of GB Map

2003-01-07 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi J.R., But I would take the word free in the page title to mean its probably okay ;) You know, I think that's a reasonable assumption ;-) Note to self: Page titles can contain useful information. Remember to read them in future. Cheers Jon • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM •

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Don Kinney
Cheryl-- You may want to search sites like MySimon.com, techbargins.com, pricescan.com. ibuyer.com or bizrate.com for price comparisons on image collection software. HTH Best regards, Don Kinney Earth Solutions, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.earthsolutions.net I'm trying to find a decent

[wdvltalk] Re: Activate Downloading of JPG in PHP

2003-01-07 Thread SanJoseWebGuy
Eddie, I've played with this a bit involving a client's custom .mp3 files. Problem is that MSIE 6.0 apparently has a twist to it, that if it detects an associated program (eg: MS Word for .doc files, Acrobat for .pdf files, etc) on the user's operating system, then the browser will cause that

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT] RAID crash recover

2003-01-07 Thread Trusz, Andrew
Ah. Promise. That's a whole different issue. I don't know if you have their Serial ATA (SATA) or built-in double sets of IDE controllers (wide and gray is IDE, thin and red going to a card is SATA). I don't think it matters in one sense. Either way, what you have is a way to extend IDE to mimic

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread sherry young
I'd like to know what you find out. Can you let us know what you end up with and how well it works? Sherry Hewitt, Cheryl wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find a decent image collection that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send

[wdvltalk] RE: ||E-Mail Marketing Tool ||

2003-01-07 Thread Heather Laidlaw
Maverick - Being the poor non-profit that we are, we use a combination of a php/mysql database to keep track of everyone's preferences (text vs html, what kind of information they are interested in, etc) and then I send my actual e-newsletter out with a little program called Group Mail (Pro

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Hewitt, Cheryl
I think we are going to go with Hemera's Photo-Object 50,000 Volume I and/or Volume II. If we only buy one of them, is one preferable over the other? -Cheryl -Original Message- From: sherry young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
That's the rub... you really want both. There is no distinction in terms of categories... just more of the same (good marketing strategy). -Original Message- From: Hewitt, Cheryl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[wdvltalk] RE: vertical spacing

2003-01-07 Thread michael ensor
Siobhan, those references posted by Jon have all the info I have gathered and more. Just one addendum ( may be I missed it in my quick review ) IE 3 ignores the next rule set following the @import rule so use a dummy rule after that if you are setting rules for IE3. To be sure of not crashing

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Franni Vincent
They both link together, but I think I've used more images from II than I - I'd want to sign up for their online service too if I could ever justify the cost ... I contact Hemara every three months with a 'When's the next Photo Objects coming out?' email - perhaps if everyone else who's using it

[wdvltalk] Re: Activate Downloading of JPG in PHP

2003-01-07 Thread Eddie Castelli
Hallo SanJoseWebGuy, --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Dienstag 07.01.2003, 18:31:00 Activate Downloading of JPG in PHP I've played with this a bit involving a client's custom .mp3 files. Problem is that MSIE 6.0 apparently has a twist to it, that if it detects an associated program (eg: MS

[wdvltalk] RE: Image of GB Map

2003-01-07 Thread Franni Vincent
Hi J.R., But I would take the word free in the page title to mean its probably okay ;) You know, I think that's a reasonable assumption ;-) Note to self: Page titles can contain useful information. Remember to read them in future. Cheers Jon Jon I've got some Art Explosion ones which

[wdvltalk] Knew it was simple

2003-01-07 Thread Larry Anderson
Found out why DW wouldn't ftp my files. It seems you have to remove the / from the host directory name. Just thought I would pass that along in case someone else runs into it. Really enjoying this list. Thanks all. Larry --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Could just be me not looking at things properly, but I've tried windowName.focus() to no effect - cheers anyway. I'm gonna go back to it tomorrow and double-check I've named things properly and stuff...I'll post code up if I can't get the thing to work. MOU

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Bj
Could just be me not looking at things properly, but I've tried windowName.focus() to no effect - cheers anyway. If you look at my code I don't use windowname.focus When you open a window, the window.open() function returns an object which is a reference to the new window, so instead of

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
use w=window.open() and save the reference in w. Then you can use w.focus() or w.close() etc That's what I've been doing, but it's not working... How about a code sample so I can compare, BJ? MOU __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Bj
- Original Message - From: Ross Clutterbuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 January 2003 22:42 Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window use w=window.open() and save the reference in w. Then you can use w.focus() or w.close() etc That's what

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Stephen Caudill
I'll ditto Dwayne once again. If you must only get one, it really makes no difference which one you do get, but should you be able to get both, it simply broadens your selections... These disk sets in combination with an online resource like clipart.com and the occasional visit to a

[wdvltalk] Re: Setting focus to existing pop-up window

2003-01-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
Cheers BJ... I think I might know where my problem is so I'll see tomorrow, but here's the theory: In my code I check to see if a window exists (i.e. if the container variable has anything in it). If it does then change the href and then focus(), otherwise open() a new one and assign the

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Franni Vincent
I find clip art works if you're prepared to use it as a starting point - import it into a graphics program recolo(u)r and/or tweak it to fit what you're doing. I've been collecting clipart since my first Mac, which was in the late 80s, so have a accumulated a lot of it over the years... tis

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread sherry young
I totally agree. Most clip art looks really cheesy to me. Every so often I'll see something using clip art that actually looks nice and I'm always amazed. S. Franni Vincent wrote: But I much prefer photo-objects nowadays - photos almost always look better... • The WDVL Discussion List

[wdvltalk] RE: New Mac Browser

2003-01-07 Thread haselton
downloaded it this afternoon. SO far its is quicker that IE but its comparable in speed to Netscape 7.01 = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hi, Heard the news that Apple has unveiled its own browser named Safari. It claims its speed is 3 times faster than IE (on Mac) and simple

[wdvltalk] Re: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Cheryl D. Wise
Cheryl, I just bought the Hemera's Photo Clip Art 100,000 images at Microcenter for $35.99 (Mac version $57.99 so guess which one I bought). I looked at the 2 Hemera versions you mentioned and decided to go with the less expensive but larger collection. I don't know how its images fit vs. the

[wdvltalk] RE: New Mac Browser

2003-01-07 Thread Cheryl D. Wise
From what I saw on the css-d list the rendering engine/library (khtml) is the same as Konqueror for Linux. You can take a look at http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-develm=104196912316326w=2 for where it differs. Also, it only runs on Macs with Jaguar as the OS not Classic or OS 10.1. I've got a Mac

[wdvltalk] RE: Image Collections

2003-01-07 Thread Stephen Caudill
Cheryl, Photo-Objects Volume III are both great! I have both and use them on a regular basis. You can export the graphics at specified resolutions in various image formats including .tif with alpha layers that can be made into selections to drop the backgrounds. 4-5 clicks and you have an