Re: [WSG] Technical Aberrations?

2006-01-15 Thread Bruce
The simplebits is very interesting. But it seems angled images in a list that change aren't do-able using CSS without tables and some kind of image replacement technique. A pic is worth a thousand words so I have made a link to the mockup with a menu item hi-lited.:

Re: [WSG] Technical Aberrations?

2006-01-15 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 15/01/06, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplebits is very interesting. But it seems angled images in a list that change aren't do-able using CSS without tables and some kind of image replacement technique. A pic is worth a thousand words so I have made a link to the mockup with a menu

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Karl Dawson
On 15/01/06, designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,More questions as I battle to understand stuff about headers and xhtml . . .snip--Best Regards,Bob McClellandCornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.ukEven on a Sunday, you'll probably get a quick answer but tomorrow I will be publishing an

RE: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread BIZARMEDIA
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; lang=en xml:lang=en head meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 / Is the correct layout that should be used

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread designer
Gee Rimantas, Such enlightenment! :-) Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk Rimantas Liubertas wrote: ... I would then end up with : ?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN'

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Gee Rimantas, Such enlightenment! Oh, well, OK. According to [1] XHTML1.1 should not be sent with MIME type of text/html. Some may argue that should not is not the same as must not and need to serve IE justifies the use of text/html MIME type for XHTML1.1, but I belong to XHTML as text/html

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Street
Ah... nearly. meta element content-type declarations ARE used, just not when the page viewed is coming from a non-local filesystem/HTTP. So it's necessary in the sense that it enables people to save your page and for that page to be 'usable' in a more general sense (though browsers have a tendency

Re: [WSG] pdf graphics

2006-01-15 Thread James Ellis
Hi all Too right, for the sake of keeping the list traffic to a manageable level please stay on-topic on the list - http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Thanks James admin We're waaay OT now, but I can't resist just posting this last message for those thinking about

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Ah... nearly. meta element content-type declarations ARE used, just not when the page viewed is coming from a non-local filesystem/HTTP. So it's necessary in the sense that it enables people to save your page and for that page to be 'usable' in a more general sense (though browsers have a

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Paolo Dodet
On 15/01/06, Rimantas Liubertas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When file is saved and then loaded Mozilla determines which parser - html, o xmlto use by file extension. So if you save xhtml file as .html/.htm andthen load it, it willbe parsed by html parser, and in this case META is taken into account.

[WSG] Scrolling A Div

2006-01-15 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, I'm curious if anyone has knowledge on creating a custom scrollbar graphic for controlling a div? I've seen custom buttons and can go this route, but would like a custom scrollbar , similar to what you can create in FLASH for a textField. Sorry for using the (f) word :)

Re: [WSG] Scrolling A Div

2006-01-15 Thread Wayne Douglas
Take a look at http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SliderDemo hth :) w.// Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, I'm curious if anyone has knowledge on creating a custom scrollbar graphic for controlling a div? I've seen custom buttons and can go this route, but would like a custom scrollbar

[WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out why one single form element is inheriting the left margin of the containing div in spite of the fact that I'm setting it to a different value further down the stylesheet. Page: http://staging.renovate.com.au/admin CSS:

Re: [WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Terrence Wood
Seona Bellamy said: form element is inheriting the left margin You have conflicting id's for content. Change to the textarea's id to something else. kind regards Terrence Wood ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Rimantas Liubertas wrote: As for omitting mime type from meta element and leaving only charset info... This might work only in text/html context, in which such omission makes no sense. Although I suspect it will work just fine in most, if not all modern browsers, that doesn't make it right.

Re: [WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 16/01/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seona Bellamy said: form element is inheriting the left marginYou have conflicting id's for content. Change to the textarea's id tosomething else. *blush* Whoops Fixed now. Thanks. :) Cheers, Seona.

RE: [WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Scott Swabey
Because you have set the id for the textarea to content. Apart from the fact that the element is now picking up styles for that ID, you also now have two ID's with the same name, which is not allowed. Regards Scott Swabey Design Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com

Re: [WSG] content type etc

2006-01-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Paolo Dodet wrote: On 15/01/06, Rimantas Liubertas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When file is saved and then loaded Mozilla determines which parser - html, o xml to use by file extension. So if you save xhtml file as .html/.htm and then load it, it will be parsed by html parser, and in this case

[WSG] Re: Semantic Addresses (WAS br the correct use)

2006-01-15 Thread Douglas Clifton
From: Kat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:22:19 +1030 Subject: Semantic Addresses (WAS br the correct use) This is what happens when uni students are on holidays and have nothing defined set to do! ;) Lachlan Hunt, Peter Firminger et al. was talking about the use of br / for

[WSG] IE not loading styles after form submit

2006-01-15 Thread SunUp
Hi folks, I've googled, searched the list archives, and have come up with no answer to a problem. I cannot post a URL as example; it's all internal. I'm hoping it will be a case of someone going oh yea, that's this thing and here's how you fix it. I've built a form, which, upon submit, calls a

[WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Alvaro Mouriño
Hi List, I was just wondering if it is possible to set an icon for my site with CSS (the one next to the title) Either way, how do I do it? Thanks, AlvAro ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Joshua Street
favicon.ico in your website root. It's not actually anything to do with CSS... though you CAN set it in your head element with link rel=shortcut icon href=favicon.ico type=image/x-icon / On 1/16/06, Alvaro Mouriño [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I was just wondering if it is possible to set

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Alvaro Mouriño wrote: Hi List, I was just wondering if it is possible to set an icon for my site with CSS (the one next to the title) Either way, how do I do it? Not with CSS, this goes in your HTML. link rel=shortcut icon href=/favicon.ico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon -- Lachlan

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-15 Thread Alvaro Mouriño
Thanks! =) AlvAro - 2006/1/16, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED]: favicon.ico in your website root. It's not actually anything to do with CSS... though you CAN set it in your head element with link rel=shortcut icon href=favicon.ico type=image/x-icon / On 1/16/06, Alvaro Mouriño [EMAIL

[WSG] IE5.5 indenting list items

2006-01-15 Thread Glen Wallis
Hi All I have an unordered list as a left hand nav bar inside a div floated left. It works fine in IE6 and Firefox1.5, but in IE5.5, whenever a list item spreads over two lines, the second line is shifted to the left. It looks like the first line is indented, but I think the second line is