[WSG] firefox ignoring my stylesheet

2005-11-03 Thread kvnmcwebn
hello, any ideas why firefox is ignoring my external stylesheet. It was working fine, i did something stupid. -Kevin ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

[WSG] firefox ignoring my stylesheet

2005-11-03 Thread kvnmcwebn
sorry i fired that off without the url. here is the page that is hiding the external stylesheet from firefox somehow. http://www.mcmonagle.biz/index5.htm

Re: [WSG] advices for using headings more correctly

2005-11-03 Thread Julián Landerreche
Hi. Thanks to everyone that give me advices about how to use headings (and how to dont mess nor waste them). and I hope to hear few more approachs about how to use headings consistently across homepage and internal pages. h1 AND WEBSITE NAME/TITLE I wouldn't recommend using an h1 for the

RE: [WSG] firefox ignoring my stylesheet

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Bennett
Nothing that I can see at a cursory glance, but it may help to validate your stylesheet: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcmonagle.biz%2Ftheme%2Fstandards2.csswarning=1profile=css2usermedium=all Paul ** The

Re: [WSG] firefox ignoring my stylesheet

2005-11-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
kvnmcwebn wrote: here is the page that is hiding the external stylesheet from firefox somehow. http://www.mcmonagle.biz/index5.htm look for this: .brownborder{border: 1px solid; border-color:#CC9900; ...missing an '}' at the end. Only IE/win and older (pre9) versions of Opera will recover

[WSG] List not showing top and bottom border

2005-11-03 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Title: Message Hi all, I am now designing in FireFox first and it works like a charm, but now I have a list that shows up fine in Firefox but not Explorer, the list does not show the top and bottom border in explorer, anyone know the reasoning behind this? www.123plugin.com

RE: [WSG] firefox ignoring my stylesheet

2005-11-03 Thread kvnmcwebn
wow - it was the missing } Georg just let me make sure i understand the i.e. future safe way. Does it go like this? mozilla type browser #logo{margin: 0px auto 0 9px; } i.e.(versions 5 and up is it?) * html #logo{margin: 777px auto 0 555px;} thanks for your patience

Re: [WSG] advices for using headings more correctly

2005-11-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 04/11/05, Julián Landerreche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at some pages where h1 for the website name is only used in the homepage. Then, in internal/content pages, the h1 usually goes for the section name or the article title. Of course, this second approach seems to need a

Re: [WSG] firefox ignoring my stylesheet

2005-11-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
kvnmcwebn wrote: Georg just let me make sure i understand the i.e. future safe way. Does it go like this? mozilla type browser #logo{margin: 0px auto 0 9px; } i.e.(versions 5 and up is it?) * html #logo{margin: 777px auto 0 555px;} Yes, but if you wanna make sure old IE/Mac isn't seeing

RE: [WSG] List not showing top and bottom border

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Noone
Title: Message Play around with your margin and padding on the a elements - padding: 0.2em 1em;. It's probably pushing the borders out. I've got a list for horizontal navigation where the first list item wouldn't show it's right border (separator) in IE no matter what I did in the

[WSG] hourglass icon appears for a split second when rolling over vertical navigation items in IE 6

2005-11-03 Thread Ben Wrighton - StraightForward
Hi All, When rolling out of a nav link or into another, in IE 6 only, for a split second the hourglass icon appears. Also, when moving the mouse into the link, the background colour/image is triggered 1-2px before the mouse arrow (My mouse is over general content) changes into a hand (Hey,

RE: [WSG] List not showing top and bottom border

2005-11-03 Thread Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
Title: Message Hi, I'll give that a go, but the real question is, what is the difference between the two and why? Thanks, Taco Fleur - CEOPacific Fox http://www.pacificfox.com.au an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 ** Web Design and Development ** SMS Solutions,

Re: [WSG] hourglass icon appears for a split second when rolling over vertical navigation items in IE 6

2005-11-03 Thread Terrence Wood
Ben Wrighton - StraightForward said: When rolling out of a nav link or into another, in IE 6 only, for a split second the hourglass icon appears. I suspect it is IE calling the server and downloading the bg images again. The problem and solutions are described here:

[WSG] Re: Digest mode has been set for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

2005-11-03 Thread Nancy Johnson
You haven't set me yet in digest mode yet. I'm still receiving 50 emails per day. Please change my settings. Thank you Nancywsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: Digest mode has been set for wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.

[WSG] Help needed with IE drama...

2005-11-03 Thread Darren Wood
Hello fellow standardites, I'm losing hair over a very annoying IE anomaly... http://golfgods.dev.netconcepts.com/layout.html [check it in FireFox to see how it should be] the bit at the bottom (the section with the border switched on) isn't behaving as i expect it to. its simply an image in a

Re: [WSG] hourglass icon appears for a split second when rolling over vertical navigation items in IE 6

2005-11-03 Thread Dustin Diaz
have you tried element:hover { cursor:pointer; } ?? Dustin http://www.dustindiaz.com On 11/3/05, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Wrighton - StraightForward said: When rolling out of a nav link or into another, in IE 6 only, for a split second the hourglass icon appears. I

[WSG] RapidWeaver?

2005-11-03 Thread Joshua Street
Has anyone used this before: http://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/index.php I stumbled across it today (was compulsively checking source of some site and found a comment that said produced by RapidWeaver... and the markup was relatively clean, so I googled it), seems... not too bad for a

Re: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama...

2005-11-03 Thread Darren Wood
We've worked out that the issue was caused by the comments in the HTML file. Has anyone had this sort of issue before? If there a solution other then removing the comments? Cheers D On 11/4/05, Darren Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow standardites, I'm losing hair over a very

Re: [WSG] RapidWeaver?

2005-11-03 Thread Christian Montoya
Has anyone used this before: http://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/index.php I stumbled across it today (was compulsively checking source of some site and found a comment that said produced by RapidWeaver... and the markup was relatively clean, so I googled it), seems... not too bad for a

Re: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama...

2005-11-03 Thread Andy Kirkwood|Motive
Hi Darren, I haven't reviewed the bug, however if its anything like the issue we've come across with comments [1] then you could try an alternative method of commenting the code. (This goes somewhat to the concept of semantic markup also.) Rather than: !-- begin footer -- div id=footer ...

RE: [WSG] Help needed with IE drama...

2005-11-03 Thread Adam Burmister \(DSL AK\)
On the topic of commenting styles, I use the following: !-- [header + logo -- div id=header ... /div !-- header] -- So the id of the element is right next to a opening or closing square bracket indicating if it's a start or end of the block. Works well for us. -Original

Re: [WSG] The Age (and smh) redesign

2005-11-03 Thread Chris Dimmock
The SMH redesign is now live - just noticed :) I like the layout - but they've dropped the ball with over 200 validation errors... Chris www.cogentis.com.au On 10/30/05, John Allsopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, last week http;//theage.com.au launched a redesign, and early next week, it