Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Christiaan Knol
Or indeed using any browser on a Mac; 1. Internet Explorer - nothing but source code 2. Safari - NO navigation 3. Firefox - NO navigation I'm only assuming there's navigation - I caught a glimpse of it in the PDF. Probably cost them a fortune too Actually - I finally

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:05:53 +1000, Christiaan Knol wrote: 2. Safari - NO navigation Oh It was my browser that was the problem. Silly me, I was thinking that it was the site.. g in order to make this more on topic Clearly, (Australian) government departments need to get more

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Rob Unsworth
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Lea de Groot wrote: On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:05:53 +1000, Christiaan Knol wrote: 2. Safari - NO navigation Oh It was my browser that was the problem. Silly me, I was thinking that it was the site.. g in order to make this more on topic Clearly, (Australian)

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread James Ellis
Hi Following on from this, it's the kind of thing a Web Standards Group whitepaper could help with - drawing on everyone's collective knowledge. ..or a press release... coming after the Australian Gov's $4 million IT dept website fiasco last year, it may be picked up by a few outlets. Ideas?

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Rob Unsworth
On Sun, 2 May 2004, James Ellis wrote: Hi Following on from this, it's the kind of thing a Web Standards Group whitepaper could help with - drawing on everyone's collective knowledge. ..or a press release... coming after the Australian Gov's $4 million IT dept website fiasco last year,

RE: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Michael Kear
Look in the meta tags ... [quote] META content=Microsoft FrontPage 5.0 name=GENERATOR [/quote] HAR!! HAR!! HAR!! HARGUFFAW!!! Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[WSG] CSS: writing-mode

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey All... I just noticed that my PHPMYADMIN has an option to rotate headers while BROWSING tables... This flips the text so its displayed vertivally, not horizontally... It uses the CSS attribute: writing-mode I havent heard, or seen this before... where did it come from? anyone know -

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode

2004-05-02 Thread Patrick Griffiths
It uses the CSS attribute: writing-mode I havent heard, or seen this before... where did it come from? anyone know - or have any info about this? It's a Microsoft proprietary thing. Not valid. Only works in IE. Having said that, take a look at this CSS3 candidate

[WSG] identical sites, different servers, display differently??

2004-05-02 Thread Mariusz Stankiewicz
I'm a bit confused right now... Its killing me I have the same site, 1 page + 1 css file located here: http://beta.arc.com.au http://beta.arc.com.au/ AND http://arc.prettymad.net http://arc.prettymad.net/ I copied the CSS and the PHP file from one to the other directly and when I display

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Stratford
Ok thanks guys! That cleared up my curiosity for the day! btw another thing... I have been told by someone that the W3C is controlled by MS. Which I thought was total crap since IE is the worst browser out there... I know that MS dontated a lot of tech to W3C... is there any validity to my

Re: [WSG] identical sites, different servers, display differently??

2004-05-02 Thread Ben Bishop
Hi Mariusz, Are you referring to spacing issues between the navigation list items? Looking at the source, the beta.arc server is stripping out excess whitespace. This is known to affect IE6. Regards, Ben Mariusz Stankiewicz wrote: I have the same site, 1 page + 1 css file located here: I copied

RE: [WSG] identical sites, different servers, display differently??

2004-05-02 Thread Mariusz Stankiewicz
Ok I just realised it doesn't render properly if there are spaces between the ulli/li/ul tags You can still view the 'broken' page here: http://arc.prettymad.net/broken_ie.php How weird. -Original Message- From: Mariusz Stankiewicz Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2004 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] identical sites, different servers, display differently??

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Stratford
Both work perfectly here! try clearing you cache, deleting temp internet files etc... maybe your ISP is cacheing it also...?? Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://www.neester.com Mariusz Stankiewicz wrote: I'm a bit confused right now... Its killing me I have the same site, 1 page

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-05-02 Thread Cameron Adams
Lea de Groot wrote: But I'm happy to bow to your greater knowledge :) Bow to the mighty Russ-o-tron, puny Earthling! ;o] -- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs

RE: [WSG] Org Charts

2004-05-02 Thread Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN
After reading all the reply's that have happened in the past 2 days, the first thing that came to mind was Oh God, what have I started with this question? :-) I was looking at the SVG stuff at the W3.org site. And yes, my mind was blown away. It's definitly not something that I can pick up and

[WSG] Melbourne Meeting - May

2004-05-02 Thread Cameron Adams
Is the Melbourne meeting really May 3? (like it says on the web site) If so, it snuck up quick! -- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Simon Jessey
Microsoft is indeed a major contributor to the World Wide Web Consortium, but the W3C is an independent organization. Financial and technical contributions come from a wide variety of industry sources. Microsoft certainly DOESN'T call the shots at the W3C. You should never think of IE as

RE: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Peter Firminger
AMEN Brother! Thanks for saying it. Kinda gets lonely out on this limb... (sorry for the content-free reply) P From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon JesseySent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:56 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS:

RE: [WSG] Org Charts

2004-05-02 Thread Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN
Sorry about the duplicate posts. We've been having some strange e-mail issues the last day or 2 * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

Re: [WSG] MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Simon Jessey
But you have to agree that at the moment, the state of IE5 and IE6 is bad... I'm not sure I do really. I have copies of IE5, 5.5, and 6.0 on my PC for development purposes. I find that (within reason) I am able to create cross-browser layouts and designs without much difficulty. It is true

[WSG] evangelism : Icon article (Sydney Morning Herald) promoting the modern browser

2004-05-02 Thread James Ellis
Hi all Great to see an article in this weekend's Icon promoting the modern browser, with a few salient words about our popular friend. Link http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/30/1083224574998.html This thread is not a discussion on browser merits but is about promoting the tools that

[WSG] Images inside a div class with specified link style

2004-05-02 Thread Jaime W
How do I prevent link styles from showing on the images that are positioned inside a div class with specified link style? An example below. div class=aCol Content text here Content text here Content text here Content text here div class=divRight a href=#img src=top.gif alt=Back to top of the page

RE: [WSG] MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Peters Micheal A Contr GSI/SCBN
Speaking of Dean Edwards work, are conditional comments Valid HTML or just another MS HTML'ism? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon JesseySent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:10 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [WSG] MS runs W3C? It is worth noting, by the

Re: [WSG] Images inside a div class with specified link style

2004-05-02 Thread Patrick Griffiths
.divRight a { border-bottom : none; } Your code was looking for an a element nested inside an image! If there are other links in .divRight boxes that you want the border applied to, you'll need to apply a different class to the a element surrounding the image. Patrick Griffiths

Re: [WSG] MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Simon Jessey
In an old article* I wrote about trying to recreate frames with CSS, I used IE's conditional comments to get around the problems it has with position: fixed. The article validates: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjessey.net%2Fsimon%2Farticles%2F007.html *

[WSG] Using span

2004-05-02 Thread Gabriel Vasquez
Hi List! Ever since I've been using the standards approach to web design, I've never used spans at all. What's the point of using them? Thanks for your input! Gabriel --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.673 / Virus

RE: [WSG] Using span

2004-05-02 Thread Mike Pepper
Hi Gabriel, Spans are inline elements, that is, they can be used, for instance, to highlight a area within another element, i.e. to change the colour of a few words to enhance a look. Divs are block level elements, effectively describing and enclosing a logical block, a menu structure for

Re: [WSG] Using span

2004-05-02 Thread Noa Groveman
Gabriel Vasquez wrote: Hi List! Ever since I've been using the standards approach to web design, I've never used spans at all. What's the point of using them? Thanks for your input! Gabriel --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-05-02 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Lea de Groot wrote: It has to be used carefully, however. If we had foo { border: 1px solid black; } .bar { border: 2px dashed red; } class=foo bar then it is undefined which has greter specifity (sp?) Both have the same specifity. The last one overrides the first one. -- Kristof

Re: [WSG] Using span

2004-05-02 Thread Mordechai Peller
Ever since I've been using the standards approach to web design, I've never used spans at all. What's the point of using them? In addition to what Mike wrote, they, like divs, can be used as hooks for style rules. In other words, if there is something which you wish to style, but there isn't

RE: [WSG] Using span

2004-05-02 Thread Gabriel Vasquez
Thank you for clearing that up Mike and Noa, I appreciate it! Gabriel * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

RE: [WSG] Images inside a div class with specified link style

2004-05-02 Thread Jaime W
Thanks Patrick So there is no other way besides making an extra div just for images with links? : Trying to prevent from creating more divs. Best Wishes, Jaime ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Griffiths Sent: Monday, 3

Re: [WSG] Request: Is it semantically correct?

2004-05-02 Thread russ - maxdesign
This new example is much cleaner code - less divs etc. However, it is hard to tell if it is semantically correct without real content inside. Some may disagree, but I would have to say at present it looks like it is pushing the DL slightly more than it should as there does not seem to be a direct

Re: [WSG] Melbourne Meeting - May

2004-05-02 Thread wsg
Hey Cameron, that's exactly what I was thinking... where did the last 2 months go. See you tonight. woric - Original Message - From: Cameron Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 2:14 AM Subject: [WSG] Melbourne Meeting - May Is the Melbourne

RE: [WSG] Melbourne Meeting - May

2004-05-02 Thread David McDonald
Cameron, Yes, the meeting is tonight! Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Melbourne Meeting - May Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 09:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Is the Melbourne meeting really May 3? (like it says on the web site) If so, it snuck up quick!

Re: [WSG] Request: Is it semantically correct?

2004-05-02 Thread Cb2 Web Design
I see your point Russ. I need to use it for something like: dl dtStatistics - Europe/dt dd pNumber of women for 100 men(1995):/p ul liEurope: 105 women for 100 men/li liWorld: 98,6 women for 100 men/li /ul pPercentage of girls and boys of less than 15 years old

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Lachlan Hardy
That site is admittedly terrible. It has no navigation on the frontpage in Firefox for Win either However, it is not indicative of all Australian government sites. I recently discovered http://www.immi.gov.au when a client cited its previous design (it has been redesigned to conform with the new

[WSG] New CSS Class

2004-05-02 Thread Jay Gerard
I begin teaching an introductory CSS course this week. The class material is posted on my Web site: http://members.aol.com/jbjtutor/css/ . I would welcome feedback of any sort on any aspect of what you see, but I think that we should do this off-list. So, if you take the time to look, please

Re: [WSG] Request: Is it semantically correct?

2004-05-02 Thread Lea de Groot
A table would be perfectly semantically correct, and I dont see why it would make a difference to the width, but if you want to do it table free, I would prefer something like this: hnStatistics - Europe/hn dl dtNumber of women for 100 men(1995):/dt ddEurope: 105 women for 100

Re: [WSG] XML Includes?

2004-05-02 Thread Benjamin
wouldnt you need to use the xml doctype if your using xml ? or the xml prologue as its called.? Heyas, Still finding my feet with XHTML / CSS. I noticed that in Mozilla (well through Eric Meyers new book) you can introduce your own tags (ie XML) and basically in many ways can attach CSS

Re: [WSG] CSS: writing-mode / MS runs W3C?

2004-05-02 Thread Chris Blown
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 23:55, Simon Jessey wrote: Microsoft's dominant market position creates a condition where browser enhancements and innovation are not very important. Sorry I must disagree. These _are_ important, not just to designers, but to all people who experience web pages on the

Re: [WSG] Request: Is it semantically correct?

2004-05-02 Thread Gary Menzel
Of course, it all comes down to personal opinion! What do others reckon? I suppose it really depends on what is trying to be achieved. To my way of thinking, the clean dtdd combination is more semantically correct. For me the ulli seem to throw the semantics out a little - moreso than the p.

RE: [WSG] SMH launch

2004-05-02 Thread Peter Ottery
sorry, bit late, re my question of any ideasof a way to make these browsers keep the background image aligned hard left and not adversly affect anything else? (on http://smh.com.au/) and Justins alternative ideas: Alternative #1"attach the background image to something other than the

[WSG] A little OT

2004-05-02 Thread Leo J. O'Campo
I'm back from my first vacation this year ( Ill be going again soon ) and I'm glad to see the list got along just find without me, so I'll sit down and read all 544 WSG messages (14 days worth ) But don't expect any replies because by now they are old news. Leo