Re: [WSG] Questions about the new european parliament web site

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Gutierrez
* Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-13 19:39]: Maybe it would be more educational if someone could describe how these tags might have been built. I'm assuming they are using a .net platform that has been horribly hacked. Maybe I shouldn't throw blame immediately at

Re: [WSG] wishing not for picky browsers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-14 Thread heretic
At 03:44 PM 9/7/2005, Christian Montoya wrote: I was actually thinking the other day, browsers should be more like compilers... they should refuse to parse incorrect code. Then the enforcement would be on the output end, too. Why on earth would I want to use a browser that refused to show me

[WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

2005-09-14 Thread Martin Smales
Hello, are you able solve this dilemma for me? Is there a way to style the td element with a background colour if an a element has a active_menu id? table tr tda href="" id="active_menu"Link/a/td /tr/table Thanks,Martin

Re: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

2005-09-14 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:56 +0800, Martin Smales wrote: Is there a way to style the td element with a background colour if an a element has a active_menu id? No, CSS Selectors don't allow this. They can only step down, not up. You could do the equivalent in JavaScript, or... well, a long term

Re: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

2005-09-14 Thread Martin Heiden
Martin, that's not possible all selectors work the other way around. You could assign a class or, if you don't need it for other things, the id to the td tag. If this isn't possible on the server side, use javascript to do so. regards, Martin am Mittwoch, 14. September 2005

RE: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

2005-09-14 Thread Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions
As Matthew said, the selectors step down, so you could apply the active_menu id to the td, then use descendence(!) on the contained elements. td id=active_menuasnip/a/td #active_menu { styles } #active_menu a { styles } Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com

Re: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

2005-09-14 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Is there a way to style the td element with a background colour if an a element has a active_menu id? As others have said, you;d need to resort to JavaScript to do this, or change the setup so the id is on the container you want to change. One thing though... Is this in a data

Re: [WSG] Firefox rendering issue

2005-09-14 Thread Kenny Graham
Try sticking something (a comment or whatever) inside your div id=postpreview/div There used to be a bug where Gecko wouldn't attempt to render empty divs. If it hasn't been fixed, it might be the problem. ** The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] display inline question

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Pepper
Ted Drake wrote ... I was asked to create a nested definition list with the nested dl's looking like simple lines of text. ... Ted try the setup I have for my site map at http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com/site_map.htm The associated CSS is: dl { font-size: .9em; padding: 0 0

[WSG] position relative z-index woes

2005-09-14 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hi again, I'm having another weird issue with MSIE and I wonder if anyone knows how to fix it. If you visit this page: http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archives/archive_2005-m09.php and you type something in the search box on the top right, 'google' for example, it will trigger some Ajax that

Re: [WSG] wishing not for picky browsers (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-14 Thread Ben Curtis
On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:40 AM, heretic wrote: At 03:44 PM 9/7/2005, Christian Montoya wrote: I was actually thinking the other day, browsers should be more like compilers... they should refuse to parse incorrect code. Then the enforcement would be on the output end, too. Why on earth would

Re: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread Terrence Wood
Interesting topic. Outside of the design fanboi/grrl type sites most design resources (at least those I use) tend to be grounded in usability, rather than pure visual design - probably because visual design is supposed to be creative, whereas standards (arguably) are not - they're what

[WSG] alistapart.com search plugin

2005-09-14 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi All I just posted a plugin for your firefox browser. It installs a search option for stuff on www.alistapart.com. In other words, when you need to find the code for sprite rollovers, you go to the search box in the top right, choose alistapart, type in sprite rollovers and voila, you get the

Re: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread dwain alford
Herrod, Lisa wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some examples of standards based visual design guidelines and wondering if you can point me to anything you've seen or personally use in your design process...? If it is something you use during design development, let me know that too, as I'm

Re: [WSG] Web font families

2005-09-14 Thread Alan Trick
Paul Bennett wrote: And Times New Roman is the default font by browsers, if I remember correctly? At least IE's default font. I may be wrong (it happened once before ;) ) but I would think that the browser would use the default SYSTEM serif font. Seeing as this (for Windows) is Times

RE: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread kvnmcwebn
I'm looking for some examples of standards based visual design guidelines and wondering if you can point me to anything you've seen or personally use in your design process...? Form follows function. Less is more-more or less.

Re: [WSG] Standards based visual design guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Ottery
On 9/15/05, kvnmcwebn wrote: I'm looking for some examples of standards based visual design guidelines and wondering if you can point me to anything you've seen or personally use in your design process...? hiya, not sure I get where you are coming from. As in, i cant

[WSG] Looking for help with standard-based JS rollovers

2005-09-14 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Here's an outline of the requirements: The site I'm working on has a dynamically-generated menu (a nested list with Son of Suckerfish dropdowns) running horizontally underneath the banner section. In order to add a little more life and interest to the pages, we want to have the

Re: [WSG] Looking for help with standard-based JS rollovers

2005-09-14 Thread Jorge Colon
If you have some knowledge of arrays you might be able to do it. First of all you have to separate the behavioral part from the document, just as you would have separated the presentational part from the document part. It degrades nicely in browsers that either don't support Javascript or

[WSG] Press release: Official launch of the Web Accessibility Tool Consortium (WAT-C, www.wat-c.org]

2005-09-14 Thread Steven . Faulkner
Leading Accessibility Organisations Launch International Development Consortium Australia, Europe, Japan and United States form WAT-C to create real time web and software accessibility analysis tools via GPL. - Thursday, September 15, 2005 Melbourne, Australia. Today organisations representing