Re: [WSG] Header Gap

2005-05-10 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 10 May 2005 22:22:24 -0400, Chris Kennon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Thanks for the "heads" up on the footer in Opera. I take it since you didn't see any problem with the header, that I fixed it. C PS: Crossing my eyes also :) On May 10, 2005, at 4:31 PM, David Laakso wrote: /*Be very

Re: [WSG] Strange horizontal spacing in nav list

2005-05-10 Thread jackie reid
shame on me... you know what? I shall be reading russ's links for light reading as soon as they pop up in my inbox from now on and you know what else.. I cant understand a word this gary bloke is saying but i will nut it out!!! thanks Mike... jackie Thanks Mike - Original Message -

Re: [WSG] Strange horizontal spacing in nav list

2005-05-10 Thread Mike Brown
jackie reid wrote: Hello everyone... I am in a quandry... ie displays my navigation with whopping great big spaces in between the list items. Why is this so... and how can i make them go away? Been trying to get it sorted for a couple of hours now and am getting frustrated to the max. Please

Re: [WSG] Header Gap

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Thanks for the "heads" up on the footer in Opera. I take it since you didn't see any problem with the header, that I fixed it. C PS: Crossing my eyes also :) On May 10, 2005, at 4:31 PM, David Laakso wrote: /*Be very very nice to Opera*/ @media screen and (min-width: 0px){ div#footer{ ma

[WSG] Strange horizontal spacing in nav list

2005-05-10 Thread jackie reid
Hello everyone...   I am in a quandry... ie displays my navigation with whopping great big spaces in between the list items. Why is this so... and how can i make them go away? Been trying to get it sorted for a couple of hours now and am getting frustrated to the max.   Please go here to see

Re: [WSG] realistic placement of 'high contrast' & 'text too small?' links?

2005-05-10 Thread heretic
Hi Jamie, > Aside from this though, the links are in the same size as the body text, > wouldn't a high contrast link need to be massive and bold? There's no WAY > anyone can do that on a high profile site, surely? > What to do? Any help and ideas would be great, thanks in advance, I'd suggest g

RE: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-10 Thread Geoff Pack
Try turning off all your styles and see if the table still makes sense. If not, then you need to add some table attributes. I find that it often helps to add a border in the html, but most of the time the default values for the other attributes are fine, and can be styled with CSS. cheers, G

Re: [WSG] Header Gap

2005-05-10 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 10 May 2005 16:34:00 -0400, Chris Kennon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (http://ckimedia.com/ep_site/pcie6.jpg) (http://ckimedia.com/ep_site/macie5_.jpg) The above screen captures reveal a gap in the header. Would someone explain what is happening and how to correct it? (http://ckimedia.com/e

Re: [WSG] Flash Satay method article

2005-05-10 Thread Steve Bryant
Another nice approach that I have seen is FlashObject: http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/03/31/proper-flash-embedding-flashobject-best-practices/ It uses JavaScript, but it looks like it degrades nicely. Steve Bryant. Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http://steve.coldfus

[WSG] Reapplying your CSS when the page length changes

2005-05-10 Thread Stevio
I have some JavaScript code that causes some content to be displayed when the user mouseover's an element. This extra content causes the page length to increase. However, I have some absolutely positioned footers. When the extra content appears, the footer overlaps with it. The positioning sty

[WSG] Header Gap

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Kennon
(http://ckimedia.com/ep_site/pcie6.jpg) (http://ckimedia.com/ep_site/macie5_.jpg) The above screen captures reveal a gap in the header. Would someone explain what is happening and how to correct it? (http://ckimedia.com/ep_site/index.htm) Thanks, Chris ***

Re: [WSG] Flash Satay method article

2005-05-10 Thread designer
OK Simon, this looks wonderful!  I've tested it out, and it works for me. So what's wrong with it, that you know of?   Bob McClelland,Cornwall (U.K.)www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk - Original Message - From: Simon Jessey To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, May 1

[WSG] Dyanmic Content Area

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, At the following url (http://ckimedia.com/ep_site/index.htm). The site is broken into a header image, a background image on the content area and a background image on the footer. The client wants the background image on the content area and the footer to expand and contract based on co

Re: [WSG] Flash Satay method article

2005-05-10 Thread Simon Jessey
Actually, that won't be where alternate content goes. It should say:     (Should not be displayed)   My bad.   Simon Jessey Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Site: http://keystonewebsites.com/ Personal Site: http://jessey.net/    

Re: [WSG] Flash Satay method article

2005-05-10 Thread Simon Jessey
The method was never 100% reliable, but many designers have certainly put it to good use. I prefer to use this method:  

[WSG] Flash Satay method article

Is the Flash Satay method from this article in 2002 still the most up to date and proper way of inserting Flash objects in a valid XHTML way? http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ Even the Macromedia web site has a copy of the article: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/dreamweaver/arti

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

I believe I've gotten around that by placing margin or padding attributes on the elements inside the table cells, which did work for my purposes. Leslie Riggs I am under the impression that cellspacing is not yet supported in CSS - but cellpadding can be added with the padding property. I usual

Re: [WSG] site check/comments please

Hi Bert, you wrote: > I can only think of two reasons: > > 1. Accessibility > > Look at the page with styles disabled and > try to make sense of the links. Does it > still "work OK"? Yep! (well, I think so, anyway) > 2. Semantics > > By your own admission, it is "a list of >

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

On 10 May 2005, at 10:01 pm, Matt Thommes wrote: I am under the impression that cellspacing is not yet supported in CSS - but cellpadding can be added with the padding property. I usually just use the cellspacing attribute within my tag - but that's the only one. Everything else, regarding the tab

Re: [WSG] realistic placement of 'high contrast' & 'text too small?' links?

Jamie, what about something like this: [help|high contrast|text too small?] -- [logo] [tab][tab][tab][tab] [login form] ---

Re: [WSG] site check/comments please

G'day Actually, it isn't an , that just applies to the title line. The list is simply that - a list of 's. I didn't see the point of making it any more complex than it needed to be, and it all seemed to work OK. But hey - I'm learning here, and asking for advice, so if there IS a good reason why i

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

> Do you have a link to the table in question so we can see whats not > working (and the way you want it to work?) > > hint : > border-collapse : collapse; gets rid of the need for cellpadding and > cellspacing in the html > > Yes, it's better to put all your presentational code in the CSS. I

[WSG] realistic placement of 'high contrast' & 'text too small?' links?

Title: realistic placement of 'high contrast' & 'text too small?' links? Hi all, I don't think this will work out in this case, but (I think) it's a difficult question all of us are going to be faced with. especially on high profile sites. Up to now I've been able to maintain my site header

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

Thanks for your suggests, James. I'm currently reading through the w3.org spec whose link Lachlan Hardy gave: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html I'll then give the table another go and if I'm still having problems will certainly cry out for help again. I like figuring out things for myself,

Re: [WSG] print css crashing ie6

Use a print stylesheet, and get the basics right at the beginning: * { position: static; float: none; } This is quite similar to Mobile CSS first steps: http://nidahas.com/2005/04/04/mobile-css-first-steps/ Prabhath ** The discussion lis

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

Hope Stewart wrote: For example, instead of I left out the cellpadding attribute in the table tag and added this to my style sheet: td { padding: 0.5em 5px 2em 0; } but it didn't work. G'day Hope, Typically, that padding should have worked fine. And, does, when stuck into one of my tables. Th

Re: [WSG] print css crashing ie6

On 5/10/05, Gallagher, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to print or print > preview. Can anyone suggest a possible cause? Yep, I've had that before... in my case it was to do with absolutely positioned divs, IIRC. I fixed it by adding a p

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

Hi Hope Do you have a link to the table in question so we can see whats not working (and the way you want it to work?) hint : border-collapse : collapse; gets rid of the need for cellpadding and cellspacing in the html Yes, it's better to put all your presentational code in the CSS. Cheers Ja

CLOSED Re: [WSG] Firefox and vulnerabilities?

Wayy off topic everyone has access to Google news. http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm The mail list does not cover: * Detailed software support such as using a browser, installing a server, installing any tools etc. A good guide is : if you are going to write OT in t

[WSG] Formatting tables

Can anyone recommend a website with indepth instructions/info on formatting a table (being used for tabular data!) using web standards & css? I've tried putting all the formatting in my css file, but it doesn't seem to work so I'm obviously not doing something right. For example, instead of I le

RE: [WSG] print css crashing ie6

> -Original Message- > From: Gallagher, Robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 4:52 PM > To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' > Subject: [WSG] print css crashing ie6 > > Hi > > I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to > print or print preview. Can any

Re: [WSG] print css crashing ie6

Gallagher, Robin skrev: Hi I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to print or print preview. Can anyone suggest a possible cause? Hard to say without access to the CSS code. Have you got an URL? /Anton ** The discussion list for

[WSG] print css crashing ie6

Hi I've got a 3-column css page that crashes IE6 when I try to print or print preview. Can anyone suggest a possible cause? Thanks > Robin Gallagher > > ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup