Re: [WSG] linking to style sheet - how best?

J. DesGeorges wrote: I am wondering what is the consensus for calling a style sheet. The @import rule or the link href method ... I am confused as to the merits of both. If you can point me to a resource that discusses this issue I would really appreciate it. This might help:

Re: [WSG] linking to style sheet - how best?

Thanks for your message Kerry Sorry for not picking up, I'm in a telecon at the moment. I will have a look at the quote and the scheduling over the weekend and I should be able to get a response to you by Monday/Tuesday. There will be many increases in effeciency, but I'll attempt to put some sor

[WSG] linking to style sheet - how best?

Hi List, long time lurker who is trying to get more courageous with CSS. I am wondering what is the consensus for calling a style sheet. The @import rule or the link href method : --

Re: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

> >Choose charset UTF-8 (not UTF-8 BOM) when saving. > > Can you explain the difference? Hi John, yes I'd be glad to explain the difference. When saving in UTF, a "Byte Order Mark" (or BOM) can be added to signify which type Unicode follows. The bad news is that the BOM may make the file unread

Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Tatham, Interesting solution. Have a look at this article and discussion: http://evolt.org/article/Super_Ragged_Floats/22/50410/index.html Cheers, Irina. www.ssw.com.au ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://web

Re: [WSG] silly question

Working code: + #c #list{ float:left; width: 128px; margin: 20px 0 0 0; padding: 0 0 0 25px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url("images/dot.gif"); } + *I believe your more global _ul_ command _#c ul_ might be causing your problems.*

Re: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

Thanks very much for that, Dejan. Choose charset UTF-8 (not UTF-8 BOM) when saving. Can you explain the difference? Don't forget to mark up properly the Vietnamese content with or such... Now the one easy thing about this project is that Vietnamese already contains all the unaccented roman letter

Re: [WSG] silly question

Under #c #list, removing, float:left; width: 128px; will make the bullets work, but they hide behind the picture. --Zachary simon dodson wrote: can anyone tell me why the list bullets are not showing in ie6. they appear to be working in firefox bar ie any help much appreciated *

Re: [WSG] silly question

It's in your CSS. I am working on trying to find the specific answer. It may be caused by incorrect css references through double id's.. I will send word when I find more. --Zachary simon dodson wrote: can anyone tell me why the list bullets are not showing in ie6. they appear to be working in

RE: [WSG] silly question

> anyone tell me why the list bullets are not showing in ie6. they > appear to be working in firefox bar ie Try adding list-style-image: (url ("images/dot.gif"); to #c #list should fix it, can't give a logical explanation, it is to do with inheritance and specificity. And FF and IE using diff

RE: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Paul, Thanks for the browser help... In some ways I am also objecting to the way I used the spacers, but think it was the most elegant solution that I could find. I checked it using Fangs, and the screen reader output seems perfect. The only other option I could think of was to use divs or someth

[WSG] silly question

sorry forgot the url - http://www.tyalgumstore.com.au/temp.html ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***

[WSG] silly question

can anyone tell me why the list bullets are not showing in ie6. they appear to be working in firefox bar ie any help much appreciated ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Great…. Yet not so great…   Thanks a lot for your assistance Carmelyne.     Tat   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carmelyne Thompson Sent: Friday, 18 February 2005 11:33 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido

RE: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Levi, You read my mind! Yeah - that was the basic reason. Thanks a lot for the assistance. Tat -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi Sent: Friday, 18 February 2005 10:54 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review: w

Re: [WSG] Summaries in blockquotes and the cite attribute

G'day Terrence Wood wrote: why? So that the summary is semantically different from the rest of the content. ... Bert Doorn wrote: Question: *why* do you want to use blockquote in the first place? If it is purely for presentational purposes (indented block) I agree that you are abusing the markup.

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

On 18 Feb 2005, at 2:42 am, Kornel Lesinski wrote: I'm a newbie, I admit, so allow me to ask a dumb question. Are there any browsers currently supporting some of these CSS3 modules? Yes. Experiments, some using CSS3, are in CSS section on literarymoose.info Gecko support some CSS3 selectors, Op

Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

At 03:40 PM 2/17/2005, Tatham Oddie wrote: It’d be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people would have to say about the way I’ve achieved the text wrapping

Re: [WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs - And some more

Netscape 4.x/All. IE4/Win is blank, wonder why? I'd say what I think about these browsers, but that kind of language is forbidden on this list ;) Use @import to hide CSS from these browsers. -- regards, Kornel Lesiński ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs - And some more

COOL!!! (O_O) Yarr! I'm going to have to work on some of those.. (o_o) *Specifically, IE5/Mac and Netscape 4.x/All. IE4/Win is blank, wonder why? Very nice tool! I do wish it was free though... --Zachary Hopkins Juha-Markku Liikala wrote: Hi to all! Just a little off-topic... I think that there

Re: [WSG] Summaries in blockquotes and the cite attribute

why? So that the summary is semantically different from the rest of the content. Terrence Wood. Bert Doorn wrote: Question: *why* do you want to use blockquote in the first place? If it is purely for presentational purposes (indented block) I agree that you are abusing the markup. Use CSS to in

Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Looks fine on netscape 7 but this is how it looks like on Opera7.52 http://wapcss.com/whatcan.gif - Carmelyne Thompson   It’d be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people wou

Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Hi Tatham, the layout breaks in Opera 7.54u2/Win (the background is weirdly positioned). Safari 1.1 and FF 1.0/Mac looks OK. IE 5.23/Mac badly positions the main content area (some negative margins/positions?). -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: alphanumeric.cz | janbrasna.com Stop IE! -

Re: [WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Checked in IE 6.x SP2 and FF1.x (pc), loooks good in both. I like the way you did the text wrapping. Why did you use 9 divs instead of 5 though? you only have 4 lines of text and that empty line. Was it just so that if the text size was made much smaller it'll still wrap nicely? On Fri, 18 Feb 2

[WSG] Site Review: whatcanido.com.au

Guys n’ Gals,   It’d be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is only a holding page – but I’m interested in what people would have to say about the way I’ve achieved the text wrapping.   The screen reader output in Fangs seems perfe

[WSG] Site Review Please

Howdy, I've been coming signed up only a few weeks here and have read only two dozen or so topics, mainly because I've been working on a new site and have had midterms to study for (UCF student in Orlando). The site was "completed" on the 11th though I am still working on backend PHP functionality.

RE: [WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs - And some more

Hi to all! Just a little off-topic... I think that there might be many people who don't know about this service: http://www.browsercam.com/ It's a site where you can get screen caps of your site from a large variety of browsers and different system configurations. It's not free, but there is a

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

ByteDreams wrote: I'm a newbie, I admit, so allow me to ask a dumb question. Are there any browsers currently supporting some of these CSS3 modules? I sure would like to try some experimental stuff with these tags if there are... Try Blake Scarborough's piece from last November: Looking Around th

Re: [WSG] " or " in copy?

I've just asked the W3C Validator. Test based on XHTML Strict. PCDATA, document text (like that): allows '"' and '>' everywhere, allows, but warns about '&' with non-letter after it (' & ', '&', '&123', '&# ' are fine), does not allow '&' followed by a letter. CDATA, attribute text (): allows '"

RE: [WSG] " or " in copy?

Paul Connolley on Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:52 AM said: > Emphasis on "Document text" - PCDATA. Text **may** contain character > references. This doesn't imply that all of the four main html entities > have to be encoded (<, >, &, and "). Note this document orig

Re: [WSG] " or " in copy?

Additionally: Taken from http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html which is an overview of looking at SGML Content model definitions  The content model describes what may be contained by an instance of an element type. Content model definitions may include: • The names of allowed or fo

Re: [WSG] " or " in copy?

(BOn 16 Feb 2005, at 22:16, Dmitry Baranovskiy wrote: (B (B> Actually " is an inch symbol. For quotes we should use “ and (B> ” in normal text. (B $B!m(B - The double prime. U+2033. The inch $B!l(B - The prime. U+2032. The foot (Bhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoublePrime.html (B (B>> Tak

RE: [WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs - Thx

Thanks I got what I needed. Kind Regards Jacobus van Niekerk Creative Consultant web: http://www.catics.com/ | http://www.freelancecontractors.com tel: + 27 21 982 7805 Jacobus van Niekerk wrote: > Hi all, > > I need the MAC girl

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:02:22 -0500, ByteDreams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a newbie, I admit, so allow me to ask a dumb question. Are there any browsers currently supporting some of these CSS3 modules? Yes. Experiments, some using CSS3, are in CSS section on literarymoose.info Gecko support som

Re: [WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs

Jacobus van Niekerk wrote: Hi all, I need the MAC girls & guys ;) to help me out. Can you please send me a screen grab of the following url http://www.parachute.com/te/smallbusiness/ Heard of perhaps? Jeroen PS: your character encoding is going bazerk (windows-1250?), b

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

There is some CSS3 support in Firefox and maybe Opera, I believe. --Zachary On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:02:22 -0500, ByteDreams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a newbie, I admit, so allow me to ask a dumb question. Are there any > browsers currently supporting some of these CSS3 modules? I sure wo

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

I'm a newbie, I admit, so allow me to ask a dumb question. Are there any browsers currently supporting some of these CSS3 modules? I sure would like to try some experimental stuff with these tags if there are... ByteDreams - Original Message - From: "Dean Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

[WSG] Need some MAC screen grabs

Hi all, I need the MAC girls & guys ;) to help me out. Can you please send me a screen grab of the following url http://www.parachute.com/te/smallbusiness/ Browsers: Safari 1.2 Netscape (which ever version you might have) Firefox 1+ Please send the screen grabs directly to me. Please don’t send

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

I realise that many people have already responded. Sorry for the echo. I'm not in the CSS working group, but I do work for W3C. On 17 Feb 2005, at 10:31, David R wrote: Just out of curiosity... Is the CSS3.0 Spec finalised, or are they still accepting suggestions and comments? I'm not sure there w

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

Jan Brasna wrote: Maybe once when we'll all be old and CSS3 support will be common thing among the browsers, we'll be able to tell our children how this was complicated in our times... ;) "In MY day we had to recreate FOUR DIVS to get rounded corners! *spits* YOU don't appreciate the HARD WORK

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

But nevertheless good timing, cause w3.org just released a Working Draft of CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders Module. And it has multiple background images. Great news! Maybe once when we'll all be old and CSS3 support will be common thing among the browsers, we'll be able to tell our children how th

Re: [WSG] CSS3.0

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:31:20 +, David R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity... > > Is the CSS3.0 Spec finalised, or are they still accepting suggestions > and comments? > > Because I really want to suggest "multiple background images" for CSS3.0 > (provided it isn't suggested a

RE: [WSG] A little help with tab index and accesskeys

> Lukasz Grabun > Tab indices (indexes?) are helpful for those who use keyboards to > navigate webpages (for example me - I browse using elinks, mostly). However it's useless to define tabindex if the natural tab order of a page already makes sense. Patrick Patri

Re: [WSG] Quirks DTD

Andy Budd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think what would be more interesting is if browsers let you set your rendering mode (quirks vs standards).This would be really useful for testing purposes. However it would be even more useful when writing user stylesheets. I wrote an "accessible" user stylesh

Re: [WSG] Quirks DTD

I think what would be more interesting is if browsers let you set your rendering mode (quirks vs standards). This would be really useful for testing purposes. However it would be even more useful when writing user stylesheets. I wrote an "accessible" user stylesheet a while back that changed te

Re: [WSG] A little help with tab index and accesskeys

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:26:54 +0100, Kim Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Accesskeys: [..snip accesskeys list..] > I'm not sure this is right at all. (I mean use accesskeys to navigate > the site with) Should accesskeys not only be used for "important" > links... like accesskeys page, sitemap etc