[WSG] Floatutorial form positioning trouble

2004-10-20 Thread Adam Carmichael
Hi list, I'm having some trouble with the (near idiot proof) 2 column Floatutorial. I have a form I'm building at: http://demo.home.carneeki.net Whenever I add a p tag (well actually I think it is any block level element as I had the same results with a ul) to #leftnav, the top of the form is

Re: [WSG] Floatutorial form positioning trouble

2004-10-20 Thread Mordechai Peller
Adam Carmichael wrote: I'm having some trouble with the (near idiot proof) 2 column Floatutorial. I have a form I'm building at: http://demo.home.carneeki.net snip / This behaviour is only apparent in IE. The HTML and CSS have passed validation. Since it's only near idiot prof, and idiot can

[WSG] Looking for party animals

2004-10-20 Thread Nigel McFarlane
Dear OSIA and WSG members, If you happen to: - like Mozilla or Firefox Web browsers - enjoy social occasions - reside in one of these places in Oz: - Adelaide (or SA) - Canberra - Tassie - Darwin and possibly know how to book a casual evening event, then could you please get fired up?

Re: [WSG] Looking for party animals

2004-10-20 Thread Joseph Lindsay
And for the Kiwis (Wellington): http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?party=172 On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:51:40 +1000, Nigel McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear OSIA and WSG members, If you happen to: - like Mozilla or Firefox Web browsers - enjoy social occasions - reside in one

[WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-20 Thread Genau Junior
I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website with a plenty of functionalities and different style pages. I know that this is a hard question, but some people may have a different poit of view about an accetable size for loading a .css file. 30kb , for example, is

Re: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-20 Thread Mordechai Peller
Genau Junior wrote: I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website... snip / 30kb , for example, is a accetable css file size? While I don't have a technical answer to your question, I suspect it will vary from one browser to the next. From a practical standpoint,

Re: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-20 Thread Hugh Todd
Genau, I would say that the old rule of thumb still applies... that to be polite to all users of your site, including those on slower dial-up connections, your *total* data size for a page (css + html + images) should be no larger than 30KB. You need to take into account, too, the images

RE: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-20 Thread Dave Rayner
I have yet to crack 10K for a css Average around 6-8K (and we use CSS for nearly everything) So unless I'm missing something, 30K seems really big. dave rayner freshweb www.freshweb.com.au m. 0409 037 250 p. +61 2 89202344 f. +61 2 89203008

Re: [WSG] CSS - How the max size of a .css file

2004-10-20 Thread Kay Smoljak
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:36:20 -0200, Genau Junior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know, how is the max size of a .css file for a website with a plenty of functionalities and different style pages. Try running a few sites through http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ -

RE: [WSG] Foreign Translations

2004-10-20 Thread Jason Foss
Yes - that *does* help! I was wondering how I was going to copy and paste from Word - how that was going to work. But I'm assuming if the Word doc is supplied in Unicode then that solves the problem. Cheers! ** Jason Foss Almost Anything Desktop Publishing www.almost-anything.com.au

[WSG] Broken Menus and Bullets

2004-10-20 Thread Natalie Buxton
Hi All Im having big issues with a design Im working on. Example live: http://pixelkitty.net/devel/wsg/whirl.php The left Menu is broken in both Mozilla and IE on Windows. As you go further down, the menu items are transparent. The menu is the basic one from ALA's horizontal drop down example.

RE: [WSG] Broken Menus and Bullets

2004-10-20 Thread Jason Foss
For a start, you have identified your nav list as id=nav, and it's sitting inside a container id=sidebar - use those in your menu.css file otherwise what you do with this styling will apply to all your lists unless stated otherwise. When I'm using these I would say : #sidebar ul {

Re: [WSG] Looking for party animals

2004-10-20 Thread Kay Smoljak
Don't forget to sign up if you're in Perth too! On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:51:40 +1000, Nigel McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?view=AU -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.smoljak.com/ ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Broken Menus and Bullets

2004-10-20 Thread Kevin Futter
I interpreted this as a z-index issue too ... (but I didn't check the code). Kevin On 21/10/04 1:48 PM, Stephen Cheshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the z-index of the block of text starting with Maecenas laoreet laoreet... is it greater than the submenus? Because I'm thinking the

Re: [WSG] Foreign Translations

2004-10-20 Thread Francesco
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html I read this entire article, then changed the first meta tag on a test page to be: meta

Re: [WSG] Foreign Translations

2004-10-20 Thread Neerav
Thats interesting, personally I like to be specific about the charset eg: Chinese Traditional Taiwan, Hong Kong meta http-equiv=Content-type content=text/html; charset=big5 / Chinese Simplified China mainland, Singapore and Malaysia meta http-equiv=Content-type content=text/html;

Re: [WSG] Broken Menus and Bullets

2004-10-20 Thread Natalie Buxton
Hi I havent set the z-index of any other containers - I was testing to see if adding one z-index would make a difference - which it didnt. I could z-index all the divs though which could fix the transparency issue perhaps? Regarding re-naming the styles for the list items - I attempted this in

Re: [WSG] Looking for party animals

2004-10-20 Thread Jeremy S. (WSG)
I'm signed up for the one in Winnipeg, MB, Canada! :D Hopefully more will sign up! Joseph Lindsay wrote: And for the Kiwis (Wellington): http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?party=172 On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:51:40 +1000, Nigel McFarlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear OSIA and WSG

Re: [WSG] Semantics of Breadcrumb you are here links

2004-10-20 Thread Sean Naden
er, maybe it's my 'listless' disposition but why would you put a breadcrumb in a list? The usual gt; seperators seem ideal, and if you disable styles it is still a breadcrumb; what is the obsession with putting everything in a list? Sean On 15/10/2004, at 9:43 PM, Gavin Cooney wrote: Hi

RE: [WSG] Broken Menus and Bullets

2004-10-20 Thread Jason Foss
Natalie, give this a try - it works for me. My containing div is #navigation, and my ul is #nav /*--- nav stuff -*/ #navigation { float:left; width:160px; } ul#nav { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; width: