Re: [WSG] IE5.5 indenting list items

2006-01-16 Thread russ - maxdesign
I have played with margins, padding, text align and text-indent. I even removed the float on the container div and the problem persists. Has anyone encountered this before? A link to online sample of this problem, stripped back to just the problem area, and a link to the stripped back css

[WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Karl Dawson
Hi, Apologies in advance if you see this cross-posted: From the Top is a series of articles that I am publishing to concisely explain how and why to construct a high quality, web-standards compliant head section for a web page. The second article, just released, examines MIME and Content

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread designer
Hi Karl, An interesting piece, well done. However, it still leaves me with some confusion. I have been using Neil Crosby's PHP approach on [1] (see signature, below) and it works 'OK', BUT, if I omit the meta tag: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 /

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Karl Dawson
Hi Bob,I modified Neil's script (I'm no PHP scripter though so it took a little trial and error) and the code I published worked for me. My test site is on the home PC but if I recall correctly I think you need to remove any hardcoding of meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=application/xhtml+xml;

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
designer wrote: I have been using Neil Crosby's PHP approach on [1] (see signature, below) and it works 'OK', BUT, if I omit the meta tag: meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8 / ... Lachlan says this is simply incorrect, so I'm a bit confused by all this.

Re: [WSG] Technical Aberrations?

2006-01-16 Thread Charlie Bartlett
Heres another link that might help, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites/ Charlie http://www.bartlettdesign.co.uk On 1/15/06, Rob Mientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15/01/06, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplebits is very interesting. But it seems angled images in a list that

Re: [WSG] CSS Icon

2006-01-16 Thread Svip
I thought that per standard you inserted the favicon.ico file in the parent directory to the site, and thus browsers would ask for it, and get it as they requested! The HTML is just if you specific pages on a site that needs their own favicons! signed Svip - sviip.dk On 16/01/06, Alvaro MouriƱo

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Karl Dawson wrote: From the Top is a series of articles that I am publishing to concisely explain how and why to construct a high quality, web-standards compliant head section for a web page. The second article, just released, examines MIME and Content Negotiation.

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Karl Dawson
Thanks for the feedback, I made a few amendments / corrections this morning including:xhtml-xml - D'oh! Got it right twice before :owell-formedness versus validation - Got it right once before ;-) (more coffee at proof-reading time) On 16/01/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # The XML

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread designer
Lachlan Hunt wrote: [snip] Did you read my article [1] which Rimantas referred you to? That explains what you're supposed to do. You need to use real HTTP headers, not the inferior meta element. The end of that article links to another that actually explains how to set the charset

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:02 AM 1/16/2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: (The charset parameter is only really needed for text/* media types, for XML served with an application/* media type, the XML declaration is recommended for use instead which may be omitted for UTF-8 and UTF-16)

[WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Simon Jessey
"Comments, especially error-spotting and general "bravo" very welcome" One minor inaccuracy. The article written by Neil Crosby is based on an article I wrote in October of the previous year. Oddly enough, it was Russ Weakely who badgered me into writing it in the first place. Simon

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Paul Novitski wrote: At 04:02 AM 1/16/2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote: (The charset parameter is only really needed for text/* media types, for XML served with an application/* media type, the XML declaration is recommended for use instead which may be omitted for UTF-8 and UTF-16)

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 16 Jan 2006, at 11:53 pm, designer wrote: However, I remain confused in the particular case of the PHP approach. The PHP looks to see if(stristr($_SERVER [HTTP_ACCEPT],application/xhtml+xml)) and on that basis it describes the appropriate prolog, mimetype and charset. So the final

Re: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-16 Thread Lachlan Hunt
designer wrote: However, I remain confused in the particular case of the PHP approach. The PHP looks to see if(stristr($_SERVER[HTTP_ACCEPT],application/xhtml+xml)) and on that basis it describes the appropriate prolog, mimetype and charset. So the final three lines of the php code (where

RE: [WSG] IE5.5 indenting list items

2006-01-16 Thread Glen Wallis
A link to online sample of this problem, stripped back to just the problem area, and a link to the stripped back css file would help a lot. Thanks Russ ... Thanks Russ, I set up a stripped back test page as suggested and managed to fix the problem. I had the ul set to