Re: [WSG] Navigation menu working in all but IE

2004-03-25 Thread Darian Cabot
I just had a play with it and found this... the CSS is fine. If you delete all the spaces and line brakes between the list items like this liitem1/liliitem2/lili it fixes the probelm. Hope that helps, Darian Cabot -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Software Engineer - Website Design

Re: [WSG] Trimming the fat

2004-03-25 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Brian Trimming excess fat off of the code does add up over time - both in storage and in transfer/bandwidth I totally agree with everything your saying. I too remove the comments and redundant code before uploading a site. I save a commented version, as a backup copy, so I or someone else

Re: [WSG] Navigation menu working in all but IE

2004-03-25 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Brian It works fine in IE5.2.2 Mac Leo Working on a navigation menu and it works great in everything BUT IE. * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] Navigation menu working in all but IE - FIXED

2004-03-25 Thread theGrafixGuy
Thanks to Darian, the extra spaces was the issue - doh! Been a long day, been coding three different sites for 18 hours straight today! Thanks for the feedback Leo, nice to know the Mac side is working right! Brian * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] How about adding a reply email address to each...

2004-03-25 Thread russ weakley
Tom, Please, as requested on several occasions, don't clog the list with admin type requests, suggestions or comments as it adds to unnecessary traffic. Instead, mail them directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Russ individual message in the digest? That way one can just click on the

Re: [WSG] Trimming the fat

2004-03-25 Thread Vaska . WSG
I haven't been following how things are going on PHP5, but do we have a target on when this might be a full stable release (and then have to really start dealing with it)? v On 25 Mar 2004, at 06:38, Justin French wrote: PHP5 looks to have some VERY NICE features in the form of Tidy, which

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Jaime Wong
"There's a big difference between expecting someone to update their antiquated bowser, and shutting out the whole Mac computer platform.What you're telling us Mac people is that we shouldn't have bought that Mac because a PC dominant $Microsoft company can't make a browser that works to

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Jamie the main topic here is about - To hide OR not to hide stylesheets I know what the topic is... While I agree with hiding stylesheet for the few older browsers still out there, because their owners refuse to use the better alternatives available, it is different for IE5 Mac users, because

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
David Thank you, my thoughts exactly! That is the point of this discussion tread. MSIE has interpreted the standards to suit their priorities and just because they hold the larger market share (on the PC), their getting away with it. We as developers, should not take it laying down or avoid

[WSG] Browser restrictions

2004-03-25 Thread Darian Cabot
Hi all I don't know if this question gets recycled often here, I'm very new... What I'd like to know is if there's a good resource that shows browser restrictions as far as CSS compatability goes. When writing my CSSs I'd like to know which attributes *won't* work in which browsers. I have the

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Justin French
On Friday, March 26, 2004, at 02:50 AM, David McDonald wrote: From my perspective, the whole point of coding to standards means that it doesn't matter what browser the user is viewing your site in - they should be able to read your content regardless. Whilst a little idealistic, yes that's the

Re: [WSG] Browser restrictions

2004-03-25 Thread Hugh Todd
Darian, Rule of thumb: forget about the version 4 browsers, unless you want to provide something like limited font tags. Even then there are inheritance problems, but the use of these browsers is so limited now (except, as noted by others, in some corporate in-house environments... Optus, for

Re: [WSG] Browser restrictions

2004-03-25 Thread Gyrus
At 08:55 26/03/2004 +1000, you wrote: I don't know if this question gets recycled often here, I'm very new... What I'd like to know is if there's a good resource that shows browser restrictions as far as CSS compatability goes. This is an excellent collection of CSS resource links:

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Hugh Todd
Jaime, Good on you for persevering. It sounds as thought the bug you are encountering is one for which you provided a link... the inherited clear bug. The obvious (but not necessarily easy) fix is to avoid using clear when creating parent elements. -Hugh Todd The style is horribly broken on

[WSG] Auto Width

2004-03-25 Thread Sam Walker
I'm having a small problem on a page. I have a div that is located inside another div which has a fixed width and margins: auto. The div contains nothing more than a couple of links, and as far as my understanding of this goes, the (default) setting of width:auto should make the box only large

[WSG] Inconsistent link color/spacing.

2004-03-25 Thread John McConnico
Hello All, I'm currently developing a left-hand Nav for a site, and am experiencing a strange problem in regard to link colors staying consistent, as well as alignment gaps in IE... Here are the pages: FRONT PAGE http://www.mcconnico.com/staging/index.html SECONDARY PAGE

Re: [WSG] Auto Width [Virus checkedAU]

2004-03-25 Thread James Ellis
Hi Remember, an inline element will collapse over linebreaks and cannot have block level elements inside it. Cheers James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This email is to be read subject to the disclaimer below. Hi Sam, * The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-25 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
What I need is some guidance in the situation I am facing now. Should I hide the stylesheet until I fix the site for Mac IE or should I just let it be? Best person to answer would be a Mac user I reckon :) Jamie The immediate solution for making everyone happy is checking the user agent for IE5

Re: [WSG] Auto Width

2004-03-25 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
Sam You to do two thing first dump the xml prologue and second encase the a elements as an inline list. Although a setting of does auto means no width the links are be rendered as block elements due to spacing and crs in your html. Leo On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 11:56 PM, Sam Walker