Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Christian Montoya
It gets worse... W3C gave you a CSS ERROR, which means they checked your site just as you were editing, I'm sure... so the name is wrong, the listing is wrong, and now you are disqualified from the featured list. Hate it when that happens!On 9/22/05, Stuart Sherwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Stuart Sherwood
You're doing well Andy. You made it onto Screenspire... http://screenspire.com/go-image/www.clearleft.com/ Congrats! ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Peter J. Farrell
Christian Montoya wrote: It gets worse... W3C gave you a CSS ERROR, which means they checked your site just as you were editing, I'm sure... so the name is wrong, the listing is wrong, and now you are disqualified from the featured list. Hate it when that happens! Just goes to show you that

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Andy Budd
Christian Montoya wrote: It gets worse... W3C gave you a CSS ERROR, which means they checked your site just as you were editing, I'm sure... so the name is wrong, the listing is wrong, and now you are disqualified from the featured list. Hate it when that happens! That's very odd.

[WSG] CSS Validator Bug

2005-09-22 Thread Andy Budd
It would seem that the CSS validator has a bug in its handling of number values. The CSS spec says that: A number can either be an integer, or it can be zero or more digits followed by a dot (.) followed by one or more digits. So 1 and 1.0 are both valid numbers. However if you run the

RE: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Ryan Blunden
Hey Andy, Nice looking site, simple, clean, well laid out and easy to read, good stuff. That's very odd. Anybody got any idea why the CSS validator should be throwing up an error on: line-height: 1; but is happy with line-height: 1.0; ? Looks like a bug in the validator to me. I'd

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Andy Budd
I'd say so, but wouldn't the error have more to do with the fact that the value of line-height needs a unit of reference (px, % or em)? No, line height is one of the few properties that can take a number without a unit. The unit acts as a multiplier, whereas an em say, is based on the

Re: [WSG] CSS Validator Bug

2005-09-22 Thread John Allsopp
Andy, It would seem that the CSS validator has a bug in its handling of number values. I've been doing a lot of checking with the validator of late (results next week at WE05) The last few days or so they clearly made some big changes to the validator, and there appear to be some

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
Ryan Blunden wrote: Andy Budd wrote: That's very odd. Anybody got any idea why the CSS validator should be throwing up an error on: line-height: 1; but is happy with line-height: 1.0; Looks like a bug in the validator to me. I'd say so, but wouldn't the error have more to

RE: [WSG] keyboard onclick activation on Mac

2005-09-22 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Quoting Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My concern is that the Enter key is also the default key to submit forms. An onKeypress event could be trigger by most any other key, preferably the spacebar. Although, as we know, this key also has the function of making selections in radio groups and

RE: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Ryan Blunden
Thanks guys for pointing that out, very useful. Ryno -Original Message- Ryan Blunden wrote: Andy Budd wrote: That's very odd. Anybody got any idea why the CSS validator should be throwing up an error on: line-height: 1; but is happy with line-height: 1.0; Looks like

[WSG] RE: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread maggie galbraith
cool! i meant MISHA'S friend. dunno what happened maggie galbraith maggiesmeanderings.com On Thu Sep 22 4:27 , 'Ryan Blunden' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Thanks guys for pointing that out, very useful. Ryno -Original Message- Ryan Blunden wrote: Andy Budd wrote: That's very

Re: [WSG] Help with accessible horizontal menu

2005-09-22 Thread Al Sparber
From: Colin Meerveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] I' am building an accessible horizontal menu. I have some problems with tabbing the menu. I tested the menu in IE 6.0, Firefox 1.05 and opera 8.0. IE and Opera doesn't support it at all and firefox only with javascript. It does navigate to the menu but the

[WSG] 3px Space problems

2005-09-22 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Title: Message I have a problem on my pages where there is a space between the navigation and the image, there is like a 3 pixels space, but only when I view it in anything else but Internet Explorer. http://www.pacificfox.com.au The homepage validates. Anyone any ideas on this, also

Re: [WSG] 3px Space problems

2005-09-22 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I have a problem on my pages where there is a space between the navigation and the image, there is like a 3 pixels space, but only when I view it in anything else but Internet Explorer. http://www.pacificfox.com.au Add this to your style sheet: img { vertical-align:top; }(Or just

Re: [WSG] CSS Validator Bug

2005-09-22 Thread Andy Budd
Might be worth reporting this to the validator people I did that straight off, but it turns out its already a known bug. Yours Andy Budd http://www.andybudd.com/ 01273 241355 07880 636677 ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] 3px Space problems

2005-09-22 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
I have had this same problem - fortunately it's easy to fix. As an alternative you can do this: img src=yourImage.jpg style=display:block; /. If you image is sitting inline - add a float:left; to keep it inline. Works like a charm. Bert Doorn wrote: G'day I have a problem on my pages where

Re: [WSG] Help with accessible horizontal menu

2005-09-22 Thread Colin Meerveld
Sorry I read the article partly and look at the main menu. I hadn't read the following part. If your vision is perfect, but you cannot use a mouse, your experience could be similar. Imagine having to use your tab key, and each time you tab into the menu, you must keep tabbing until you tab

Re: [WSG] ol displaying 3.1 3.2 etc. instead of 1 2 3

2005-09-22 Thread Ben Curtis
Webmaster wrote: The far simpler way would be simpy to use: ol start=3 type=1 li class=MsoNormalText/li li class=MsoNormalText/li li class=MsoNormalText/li /ol This would render as: 3. Text 4. Text 5. Text The poster wants: 3.1. Text 3.2. Text 3.3. Text --

RE: [WSG] 3px Space problems

2005-09-22 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Add this to your style sheet: img { vertical-align:top; } (Or just for images in a certain section) That seemed to work, weird, I had vertical-align:top; on the images itself. Incidentally, you might want to have a look at the site with images disabled. Or load it over a dial-up

RE: [WSG] 3px Space problems

2005-09-22 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
PS. Any ideas on the headers just below the banner, that are not in the same spot as in Internet Explorer? If we take the portfolio page for example, the header portfolio in IE is in the spot where I want it, in anything else it is way to high. I could position it absolute to the top of the page,

RE: [WSG] IE6 not shrinking space at pure dom explorer list trouble

2005-09-22 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi Isabel, Firstly your request was a *whole lot* for us list members to take in, hence the lack of responses. Secondly, the list is fine for me in IE6 (Windows XP, Service Pack 2). The list is expanded as the page loads, the script then seems to load which collapses the list. The images

Re: [WSG] a DIV adjusts to content in IE but not in Mozilla, page validates as XHTML 1.0 strict

2005-09-22 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
I must assume that you are trying to get the background colors to stretch down to the bottom of the main content? In this situation I usually add something like this below the content to force those wrappers down. div style=clear:both;height:0px;nbsp;/div That forces the wrappers down below

RE: [WSG] a DIV adjusts to content in IE but not in Mozilla, page validates as XHTML 1.0 strict

2005-09-22 Thread Jeroen Verburgh
Thanks :) /me *ashamed* I feel a bit silly right now. I've tried nearly every possible trick I could come up with while the solution was right in front of me the whole time! When I started out on this CSS-file I neglected to add my div.spacer-fix and meanwhile I was wondering why in the world

Re: [WSG] IE6 not shrinking space at pure dom explorer list trouble

2005-09-22 Thread Isabel Santos
Thank you very mutch for the answer Paul, I thought it had gone unnoticedin the middle ofall other messages. Sory I make them so long and confusing. I think I didn't explain it very well: Since the thumbnail gallery is absolutely positioned, what goes all the way down until after the previously

Re: [WSG] Clearleft.com

2005-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Budd wrote: Why don't you ask mister Rutter? http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/ You know what, I must have known this at some stage as I always set % on the body tag to avoid problems with font sizing in IE. I just didn't put two and two together and realise it was the same issue. I

[WSG] Interesting post on Ask MeFi

2005-09-22 Thread john
I thought WSG people would be interested in the dilemma expressed in this discussion on AskMetaFilter, and the advice given: I just started working for an IT company that has been dipping it's toes in the world of web design development for a while, but not been doing things right. [...]

[WSG] Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Lo
Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS After 8 years of my nasty, crufty, hodge podged together HTML, last night we finally switched over to clean HTML 4.01 with a full complement of CSS. While there are a handful of bugs and some lesser used functionality isn't quite done yet, the transition has gone