Re: [WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread russ weakley
A picture tells a thousand words: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=44938 :) Russ > Thanks in anticipation ­ I managed to get it working across all my target > windows browsers. Now to move on to the mac ­ anyone want to have a look in a > few Mac browsers and tell me the bad news? Go

Re: [WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread Lucian Teo
Looks great on Safari, but breaks in IE / Mac. Screenshot at http://tribolum.com/space/naturalgrocer.jpg Lucian tribolum.com On Feb 14, 2004, at 1:06 PM, James Gollan wrote: Thanks in anticipation – I managed to get it working across all my target windows browsers. Now to move on to the mac –

RE: [WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread James Gollan
Hi Ben, Thanks to the time delay on the mailing list our messages crossed. I will take a look at your suggestion and see if it will make the coding simpler. Now, as my mother used to say, "Go outside and enjoy the sundshine". Cheers James -Original Message- From: Ben Bishop [mailto:[E

RE: [WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread James Gollan
Thanks in anticipation – I managed to get it working across all my target windows browsers. Now to move on to the mac – anyone want to have a look in a few Mac browsers and tell me the bad news? Go on -  it’ll be fun breaking another designers spirit ;)   BTW the working page is http://ww

Re: [WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread Ben Bishop
Hi James, Without my trusty toolkit handy, I can't answer why it is breaking, I suspect it is probably a box-model issue as you say, but I do have a suggestion that might fix the problems. As you have a fixed-width layout, explicitly setting widths for both columns and "float:left"ing the first co

Re: [WSG] CSS Site Check

2004-02-13 Thread Tim Lucas
Thanks Michael! -- tim Michael Donnermeyer spoke the following wise words on 13/02/2004 3:01 PM EST: Don't blame you. IE has been on my last nerve recently...ALOT. I wouldn't use the hack...it's a rather minor issue anyway, and the hack could cause other issues to arise...not to mention it's

[WSG] IE 5 position problems

2004-02-13 Thread James Gollan
Hi guys,   Just wondering if anyone knew why this layout http://www.swamphen.com/testing/naturalgrocer/index3.html was breaking in IE5 (severe) and 5.5 (not so severe). I suspect it may be to do with the box model or a float bug, but can’t quite isolate it.   Any help much appreciated.

Re: [WSG] "Dodging CSS Hacks" Tutorial

2004-02-13 Thread Robert Moser
Ryan Christie blurted out: Box A's background becomes the border when you make a 5px margin on Box B ... I believe I used the word "appear"... It's sort of faking a border, if you will. When built you'll see what I mean (and why it can only be solid) If the background for box A is an image (say a

RE: [WSG] misbehaving footer

2004-02-13 Thread roger
Robert, YOU ROCK! That fixed it. I know you guys might be asking why I have an image there. Well the client wants the Sand font used there. I am also going to have to change the page titles to images for this as well. I ready ALA's article on Fahner(sic) image replacement but all I got after

RE: [WSG] misbehaving footer

2004-02-13 Thread roger
Michael, Thanks that looks really great. That first page is kinda giving me some trouble because at the last moment they wanted the sidebar stuff on the right hand side. I have now removed the align tags from the HTML and that has fixed the alignment. I am going to stick with what i have but

Re: [WSG] Some links for light reading...

2004-02-13 Thread Cameron Adams
When you say that www.fhm.lv is a "nice" css site, what exactly do you mean Russ? :oP -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html **

[WSG] Some links for light reading...

2004-02-13 Thread russ weakley
1. Knowing too much What I¹m talking about is the increasing need for web developers to know, and be good at, widely different things. Common skill requirements include graphic design, database development, JavaScript, HTML ,CSS ,XML , information architechture, usability, accessibility, writing, t